Khabarovsk gold miners caused damage to nature for 625 million rubles

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the environmental prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on causing damage to soils in the amount of almost 625 million rubles.

The decision was made after an audit of the implementation of legislation on mineral resources in the licensed area of the Kerbinsky district forestry. It is located in the Polina Osipenko district.

The prosecutors found that the subsurface user had a license only to search for and evaluate placer gold, but at the same time carried out land work, destroying the fertile soil layer. The area of damage to the forest fund was 400 thousand square meters. m.

The decision of the environmental prosecutor has been sent to the investigating authorities. A criminal case has been opened under the article "Violation of environmental protection rules during work," IA AmurMedia writes.

Earlier it was reported that violations worth more than 3 billion rubles were revealed by the Prosecutor General's Office during an inspection of the Sochi National Park and the Caucasian Nature Reserve. For example, commercial infrastructure was being built there, massive tree felling was carried out, and waste was being stored. All this has created risks for dozens of Red Book plant species. In order to reduce the possible negative response, the staff of scientists in the national park and reserve has been drastically reduced.

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