The implementation of a number of activities of the federal project to preserve Lake Baikal is unacceptably slow, «National Projects: Russia's Future» quoted Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as saying on Monday during a meeting of the presidium of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and National Projects. He said that progress of the reconstruction of treatment facilities in Buryatia is proceeding at unacceptably slow pace.
The prime minister added that the documentation necessary to start the liquidation of damage caused by the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill has not yet been developed.
Medvedev also expressed dissatisfaction with the course of the reform of solid waste management. He stated that a critical situation has developed in the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Krasnodar, the Khabarovsk Territories, Vladimir, Kurgan, Saratov, Ulyanovsk and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
“We will not be able to launch the system there from January 1,” the prime minister said.
He emphasized that in 17 entities there is a risk that regional operators will stop their activities mainly for financial reasons. At the same time, more than 14 million people are in their service area. The most difficult situation with territorial waste management schemes was recorded in Tuva, Dagestan, the Saratov and Jewish Autonomous Regions, in the Khabarovsk Territory.
Medvedev said governors should take actions to prevent this from happening.
In November, 2019, Medvedev prematurely ceased the authority of the «Russian Environmental Operator» CEO, Denis Butsaev. He coordinated the work of all regional operators under the “garbage reform”.
Earlier in the month, Earlier this month, Dmitry Medvedev also dismissed Vladimir Loginov, deputy Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian Federation. He was in charge of monitoring and coordinating the work of the Department of State Policy and Environmental Protection Regulation and Ecological Safety. He was called the curator of the garbage management reform.
The garbage management reform was launched in Russia in early 2019. It aims at transitioning to a new system for the disposal of household waste. As part of it, the regions should adopt waste management schemes on a local level, as well as hold tenders and select an operator for the removal and processing of waste.
The federal project for the conservation of Lake Baikal is included in the national project "Ecology". One of the key tasks of the national project is to create the industry for the processing of production and consumption of waste. From January 1, 2020, all regions, with the exception of a number of cities of federal significance, should switch to a new system of solid municipal waste management.
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