A chance for Baikalsk

Baikalsk pulpmill (Irkutsk region) has received prolongation of the approval to dispose wastes into Lake Baikal. The approval now is active till August 05, 2013, as reported by local paper quoting Baikalsk town mayor Valeriy Pintaev. As the paper says, the prolongation was ‘‘absolutely legal’’.

Earlier it was officially reported that Baikal pulpmill’s approval for waste disposal is to terminate on August 16. According to this, over 1,500 had to be sacked in October.

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