1,500 people came to environmental rally in
Tuapse against launching of a terminal for transshipment of
chemical fertilizers of the Eurochom company. The action is
organised by the Green Russia faction of the YABLOKO Party
with support of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch.
Eurochim’s terminal is built in the centre of the city. An
unlawful so-called “pilot” transshipment of futilisers organised
by Eurochim last spring led to a situation when all the neighbouring
territories were covered by chemical dust. This provoked a
public outburst in Tuapse – the city dwellers were absolutely
against launching of such a hazardous facility in the city.
The action was conducted in view of launching of the terminal
in short term.
The rally was opened by a song against launching of the terminal
written by one of the local residents.
Euney Vitishko, leader of the local branch of YABLOKO, who
was the first to speak at the rally, called the residents
to jointly stop the potential environmental disaster connected
with the launch of the terminal.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin also made a speech at the
rally. “I have an impression now that the authorities decided
to divide the Black Sea coast into several zones: one, where
Eurochim, Rosneft and other oligarchic structures earn their
profits at the expense of health of local residents, and the
second zone for construction of cottages and palaces for bureaucrats
and oligarchs,” Mitrokhin said. He promised to send an address
to President Medvedev demanding to prohibit the launch of
the terminal.
Representative of public organisations also poke about other
urgent environmental problems of the Tuapse area: negative
influence on the environment of Rosneft’s oil transshipment
facilities, including reconstruction of Rosneft facilities
conducted with violation of the law. Also the residents expressed
their concerns with the plans of oil extraction (on the shelf
by the Tuapse coast), problems of the dump at the Kadosh Cape
and other problems.
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Protection
of Environment
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