UNE RESPIRATION?
Lors de l'échange, cet après midi, entre Vladimir Poutine et le ministre de l'environnement et des ressources naturelles Sergeï Donskoy, ce dernier a insisté sur le lancement d'un plan de grande ampleur d'assainissement des eaux et des berges de la Volga, 180 ans après le voyage des frères Chernetsov et leur stupéfiant compte rendu ("Retour dans la mère patrie" mis en ligne le 24 mars 2016).
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56186
This year, we adopted three priority projects: A Clean Country, Russia’s Wildlife and A Clean Volga River.
A Clean Country focuses on eliminating past environmental damage. This year we launched 25 projects in 13 regions, and we are to finalise 10 projects to get rid of old disposal sites, old production facilities and everything that is considered to be past environmental damage.
As for Russia’s Wildlife, its aim is developing ecotourism, and we have already picked pilot national parks where we will build the system together with investors.
And the last one. A Clean Volga River is a huge and ambitious project worth over 254 billion rubles. Of course, the money will be allocated by the federal budget, regional budgets and investors (they will provide over 100 billion rubles). The project includes building water treatment facilities and cleaning up environmental damage on the riverbanks. A lot of waste has accumulated there over the years.
In our opinion, this project will reduce Volga River pollution by 89 percent before 2025. But we need more money and efforts to do so.
