Environmental activists, armed with a quadcopter, immediately went to the scene, breaking the 65 miles on the river. What they saw shocked them: a picturesque impenetrable jungle with the animals and birds became scalped the desert. Around – cut forests, trenches and barrels of fuel. The drone of tractors can be heard from afar, the dust blows.
Environmentalists worry not in vain: such projects in Kamchatka have been, and nothing good they did not end led to degradation of landscapes and pollution of water bodies. A victim of extraction of alluvial platinum was the Vyvenka river, which once struck its fish wealth. In two of its tributaries, the salmon populations have vanished forever. You can remember the poisoned miners river Asaco, mutilated riverbeds of the streams Foam and Alder, where, after the development of deposits of Amethyst is no longer looked young of the salmon. Less than ten years from the date of receipt Ozernovskiy gold resource status the most significant investment project, as the nearby Creek Clamp has ceased to be spawning.
And here Fast! The Mecca of fishing tourism, the hallmark of Kamchatka, a unique river, where the splashing grayling and rainbow trout, char and salmon, as well as several other types of salmon. Alloy is one of the most popular tourist routes of Kamchatka, in the summer season it attracts about ten thousand Russian and foreign tourists.
– Kamchatka is the only region of Russia, where populations of wild salmon preserved in its natural, productive state, – says the moderator of the thematic platform onf “Ecology” in Kamchatka Krai Tatiana Mikhailova. In recent years the region demonstrates record catches. 90 percent of the rivers of the Peninsula have the highest fish category, many of them recreational resource. Sure the production in their basins of this precious metal will cause irreparable damage and reservoirs, and populations of wild salmon. The regional office of onf considers necessary at the state level to prohibit the extraction of placer gold in areas of the rivers.
Stop development on Kamchatka these fields is encouraged and WWF Russia.
With its “gold” project “Dalstroy” was camping on the corridors of different departments from 2017. It was then that the Federal Agency for subsoil use has granted a license for a period of 20 years, nearly a ton of gold scattered along the banks of the spawning rivers.
Trying to get tax breaks, they even appealed to the administration of Ust-bolsheretskiy municipal district, asking a special status, but the head of the territory Konstantin Enikeev resolution is not set. It is known that at the moment industry science also did not support the gold miners. However, the second time two years later was successful.
About imperfectionse legislation, fragmentation of the work of agencies and the need for control has recently called acting Minister of natural resources and ecology of the region Alexey Komarikov.
– Fisheries science considered acceptable work in the floodplains of the river Fast. Water law also allows you to mine gold in floodplains. As far as I know, based on the specifics of the region and the importance of the fishing industry, work on Golovskoy area (license area in the southern part of the Peninsula on the territory of Yelizovo and Ust-Bolsheretsky districts. – Approx. ed.) has long been taboo. I think this is correct, because the essence of public administration lies in the assessment of all the risks – environmental, social, political, carefully he said.
But it is much less diplomatic was the reaction of the acting Governor of the Vladimir Solodov. He described the situation as “a real barbarism.” The head of the region appealed to the environmental Prosecutor’s office and police Department with a request to check the facts of possible violations of the law.
– Many of the fishermen are wondering: we did not know about the developments, how did this happen? Indeed, the incredible speed of the courts is striking: in December 2019 said in January 2020 gained ground rent. While only on the approval of the relevant ministries usually takes half a year. Carried out all the necessary procedures? Question to the environmental Prosecutor’s office, stresses Deputy Chairman of the Union rybopromyshlennikov and businessmen of Kamchatka Evgeny Kabanov.
the development strategy of the region clearly prescribes four priority sectors: fishing, mining, tourism and agriculture. Over the past year, 32 percent of filling the regional budget gave the fish and 3.2 was obtained by mining.
– Not quite right for normative or strategic level to fix the priority of one branch over the other, indicated their position Vladimir Solodov. – There are different areas, volumes and specialization of investment projects. The thing in the positive aspects or risks (including related industries), which arise as a result of implementation of a particular case. Most importantly, you need to work out a mechanism that will turn the region into a decision-making procedure on granting subsoil in use. It is necessary that we can present our proposals, rather than catch on the website tenders, not knowing what was beyond the brook on the auction block. This is unacceptable.
alluvial gold production in Kamchatka issued four licenses in the basins of the rivers Bolshaya, and Avacha. And we must not forget that the same “Dalstroy” – the licensed production in five rivers. Now there is mining to assess in the area of the rivers�� Kikhchik, talking about Spring. It is not excluded that we are waiting for new surprises.
