Alexander Shadrikov: "In the Year of National Traditions and Cultures, it is important to remember that ecology also lives in our traditions"

28 March 2023, Tuesday

Today, the Minister of Ecology told reporters at a briefing about environmental protection measures in the Republic. 

"Our main goal is to ensure a prosperous ecological future for both the Republic as a whole and each of our residents. Over the past five years, 850 environmental measures have been implemented on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan for a total of 52.2 billion rubles, while 20.4 billion rubles are budget financing," the speaker noted at the very beginning of his speech.  Alexander Shadrikov noted that the sanitary and ecological two-month period is only part of the work carried out by the department. He outlined the tasks and issues that the Ministry of Ecology solves. This includes environmental monitoring, subsurface use, environmental education, and, of course, supervision – the minister briefly stopped in each direction. So, speaking about the quality of atmospheric air, he noted that 4.4 million measurements of atmospheric air quality were carried out last year. This is 500 thousand measurements more than a year earlier.

The territorial system for monitoring the state of atmospheric air has been functioning since 2008 and currently consists of 17 automatic stations for monitoring atmospheric air pollution (AAPCS) and 6 portable environmental laboratories (PEL).

The 17th AAPCS station was installed in March of this year by numerous requests of the residents of Salavat Kupere. So far, this AAPCS is equipped with gas analyzers to determine 6 major pollutants in the atmospheric air, but in the near future it is planned to retrofit the station with a chromatographic complex to determine 5 more aromatic hydrocarbons in the air.

Since the potential pollutants are the enterprises of federal supervision, additional research is carried out by the laboratory of the Central Committee of Rosprirodnadzor. 

For the period 2018 to 2022, the Republic of Tatarstan recorded a decrease in the number of excess MPC pollutants in the atmospheric air by 3.6 times.

"We have conducted an analysis on the dynamics of changes in atmospheric air quality over the past 30 years. Thus, since 1998, with the growth of the gross regional product by 2.6 times at comparable prices, the total volume of emissions in Tatarstan has decreased by 21.4 percent. But this should not calm us down absolutely! As I have said more than once: our KPI is zero complaints from the population, what we should strive for," the minister emphasized the attention of journalists.

Alexander Shadrikov also listed the activities within the framework of the implementation of the national project "Ecology", which are scheduled for this and subsequent years. In 2022, the republic took part in 4 federal projects - "Improving the Volga River", "Clean Country", "Preservation of unique water bodies" and "Conservation of forests".  6.8 billion rubles have been allocated for their implementation. Environmental measures are also invested at the expense of the regional environmental protection program. In 2022, 1.1 billion rubles were allocated.

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