For three years in a row, the owners and top managers of the coal terminals of RMPP LLC, Rostov Port JSC and VTP LLC have ignored the prosecutor’s office, which has identified many systemic violations of environmental legislation here, without taking any measures to eliminate them.
The essence of the claims against coal terminals located on the territory of the Rostov Multimodal Sea Port is that as a result of open-pit transshipment of coal, environmental legislation is violated. The terminals of RMPP LLC, Rostov Port JSC and VTP LLC do not even have permission from the state environmental assessment, which, in general, cannot be obtained, since the most basic things are missing here. In particular, back in 2019, an audit revealed that at the coal terminals in the port there are no “structures that ensure the protection of the water body from pollution, clogging, siltation and water depletion… The discharge of untreated storm water is carried out along the terrain into the water body of the river. Don”. However, coal dust pollutes not only water, but naturally also the air in and around the port.
The company, which had revenue of over a billion rubles at the end of last year and a net profit of 110 million rubles, regularly receives dozens of comments based on the results of inspections by the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, but does not consider it necessary to eliminate them.
Here, they equally ignore both the protection of the environment and the health of city residents, including their own employees, and the instructions of regulatory government agencies, including the prosecutor’s office. It is obvious that so far, even fines and court decisions initiated by environmental authorities cannot convince the owners and managers of coal terminals to comply with the law.
As a result, social activists took up the matter. The Moscow society for the protection of consumer rights and environmental protection “Princip” filed a lawsuit and intends to seek the closure of coal terminals, since in the absence of positive conclusions of the state environmental assessment there is every reason to consider the activities of LLC “RMMP” JSC “Rostov Port” and LLC “VneshTorgPort” for illegal coal transshipment.
The essence of the claims against coal terminals located on the territory of the Rostov Multimodal Sea Port is that as a result of open-pit transshipment of coal, environmental legislation is violated. The terminals of RMPP LLC, Rostov Port JSC and VTP LLC do not even have permission from the state environmental assessment, which, in general, cannot be obtained, since the most basic things are missing here. In particular, back in 2019, an audit revealed that at the coal terminals in the port there are no “structures that ensure the protection of the water body from pollution, clogging, siltation and water depletion… The discharge of untreated storm water is carried out along the terrain into the water body of the river. Don”. However, coal dust pollutes not only water, but naturally also the air in and around the port.
The company, which had revenue of over a billion rubles at the end of last year and a net profit of 110 million rubles, regularly receives dozens of comments based on the results of inspections by the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, but does not consider it necessary to eliminate them.
Here, they equally ignore both the protection of the environment and the health of city residents, including their own employees, and the instructions of regulatory government agencies, including the prosecutor’s office. It is obvious that so far, even fines and court decisions initiated by environmental authorities cannot convince the owners and managers of coal terminals to comply with the law.
As a result, social activists took up the matter. The Moscow society for the protection of consumer rights and environmental protection “Princip” filed a lawsuit and intends to seek the closure of coal terminals, since in the absence of positive conclusions of the state environmental assessment there is every reason to consider the activities of LLC “RMMP” JSC “Rostov Port” and LLC “VneshTorgPort” for illegal coal transshipment.
RMPP LLC, Rostov Port JSC and VTP LLC continue open transshipment of coal on the banks of the Don
Environmental activists believe that the owners of coal terminals in the Rostov port are in no hurry to eliminate the violations that the prosecutor’s office revealed back in the spring.
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