Patrushev explained the difficulty of eliminating the Krasny Bor landfill in the Leningrad region

The liquidation of the Krasny Bor landfill in the Leningrad Region has not yet been completed due to the scale and complexity of the project. This was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev in an interview with Izvestia on December 23.

"No, the elimination of pollution at this location has not really been completed. I won't embellish it — there's still a lot of work ahead. Perhaps not all of your readers are aware: Krasny Bor is not a spontaneous garbage dump. This is a landfill with an area of several tens of hectares, where toxic industrial waste with a complex chemical composition has been transported from all over the Soviet Union since the 1960s. Just think about it: there are more than 1.5 million tons of them there!" he said.

Patrushev noted that the landfill elimination project is necessary, but very time-consuming. Special technologies, infrastructure, and specialists with specific competencies are needed for implementation. At the same time, such a large-scale liquidation is being conducted for the first time in Russia, so there are points that require additional study and study. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, it is impossible to complete such a volume of work in a short time.

"But the work is going on without stopping. The contamination is isolated by a special protective curtain and does not spread. That's the main thing. I was at the training ground, and literally in December, I saw how the events were being implemented. They will undoubtedly be completed within the framework of the current national project," Patrushev concluded.

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Patrushev, at a meeting on November 21, considered the issue of obtaining integrated environmental permits (CER) by businesses. This legal mechanism regulates all permissible types of environmentally harmful effects of the work of the largest enterprises, as well as activities dangerous to nature. First of all, legal entities and sole proprietors whose activities are carried out at facilities included in Group I according to the degree of negative impact on the environment should receive CER. The transition to such a nature-protecting system started in 2019.

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