| Residents of the Tuapse city once again protested
against the shipments of chemical fertilizers through the
city center by the residential housing
Based on the North Caucasus Environmental Watch
reports
On June 26, a rally against launching of chemical shipments
terminal in Tuapse owned by the Eurochem company was conducted
in the centre of the city. The action was organised by the
North Caucasus Environmental Watch on and YABLOKOs Green
Russia faction. Despite the interaction from the administration
of the Tuapse district and the Krasnodar Territory, the rally
brought together over two thousand inhabitants of the city.
All the speakers at the rally - representatives of parties
and public organisations and ordinary citizens - expressed
a common position against the terminal in the city centre.
The rally gathered together representatives from different
political parties and public organisations: the YABLOKO party,
the Patriots of Russia, the Communist and the Just Russia
parties.
The rally demanded that the authorities should conduct a
referendum on the launch of the terminal in Tuapse. This was
the main issue of the resolution adopted at the rally.
Yury Golubev, Co-Chair of the South-Russian Public Environmental
Network, who came specially to the rally from Azov told that
in 2003 the residents of Azov had won over a company launching
the same terminal in Azov. Mass-scale protests of the residents
had helped to stop that dangerous project in Azov.
Andrei Rudomakha, Coordinator of the Environmental Watch,
told how the activists managed to get an extremely important
decision in respect of the terminal from Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev, who instructed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin,
Alexander Tkachev and Governor of the Krasnodar Territory
Governor to hold additional public hearings on the terminal.
Rudomakha expressed an opinion that public hearings should
be conducted in the form of a protest rally so that all the
interested Tuapse residents could also attend.
Other speakers at the rally were Irina Turcan, Chair of the
Tuapse branch of the Patriots of Russia, Eugeny Vitishko,
member of the Environmental Watch and Chair of the Tuapse
district branch of YABLOKO, Vladimir Rakhno, Chair of the
regional branch YABLOKO, Sergei Dubik, Chair of the Tuapse
district branch of the Patriots of Russia party, Eugeniya
Tretyakova, member of the Environmental Watch, and ordinary
residents of Tuapse - Yury Lobanov, Felix Ganin, Natalia Zinco,
Vladimir Chernovol and other.
The rally also raised the issue of environmental dangers
of Rosnefts oil refinery which had been the main polluter
of the city also representing a huge threat in terms of safety
requirements.
In the beginning of the rally the police tried to prohibit
to use a car a tribune, then several provocateurs (allegedly
from the Eurochim company) tried to break the action, but
failed. Deputy head of Tuapse district administration German
Apitin also tried to interfere with his bans.
After the rally Krasnodar rock group The Mayan Calendar sang
for the participants of the action.
See also:
Protection
of Environment
Tuapse
printing facility refused to print YABLOKO’s bulletin
for the rally obeying the order from the authorities. Press
Release, June 24, 2011.
After
YABLOKO and ecologists’ protests President Medvedev
postponed launching of chemical terminals at the Black Sea.
Press Release, June 22, 2011.
1,500
people came to environmental rally in Tuapse.Press
Release, April 9, 2011.
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