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YABLOKO to join a motor race against construction of a nuclear power station in the Nizhny Novgorod Region

Press Release

March 17, 2010

A rally against construction of a nuclear power station in the Nizhny Novgorod Region organised by ecological organisations and YABLOKO will take place in the centre of Moscow on March 18.

A motor race Murom – Moscow against construction of the nuclear power station started today. On March 18 YABLOKO’s activists together with party leader Sergei Mitrokhin will meet the participants of the race in the Moscow region and join the race.

“My task is to ensure that the motor column is allowed to enter Moscow, as the participants expressed their concern that the column would be stopped by Moscow,” Sergei Mitrokhin. Today protesters have been stopped by the police several times and their passport data were copied.

Today the column consisting of 30 cars will make stops in the Monakovo town, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir, where the activists will hold a rally by the city administration building. After which the motor column will follow to Moscow.

In August 2009 the atomic ministry (Rosatom) announced that it was going to construct a nuclear power station 26 km from Murom by the town of Monakovo, Nizhny Novgorod region. YABLOKO was against such construction, as active karst processes leading to formation of cavities had been developing in the territory chosen for the construction site.

Population of Murom amounts to 120,000 people, and 70,000 people out of them signed under petition against construction of the nuclear power station. The collection of signatures was organised by the Vladimir YABLOKO branch. However, representatives of the atomic ministry stated during their meeting with the citizens of Murom, that they had been observing the site for two years and made a conclusion that the site was safe for construction of a nuclear power station.

Initially it was planned to construct a nuclear power station by a small village in the Nizhny Novgorod region. However, later Rosatom decided to construct it by Monakovo on the border with the Vladimir region stating that construction would be 15 bln roubles cheaper there.

See also:
YABLOKO for Environmental Safety


 


 

 


Press Release

March 17, 2010