Russia (bbabo.net), - According to the results of environmental monitoring by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation over the past year, Kemerovo also got into the list of Russian cities with the most polluted air, where Novokuznetsk had previously been. According to the mayor's office, the atmosphere is equally polluted by factories, vehicles and stove heating of the private sector. However, public figures have other information.

The anti-rating of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation includes cities where an environmental problem has been observed for at least three years out of the last five years. So in the capital of Kuzbass, the "black sky" regime is being introduced more often. Meanwhile, the authorities do not get tired of talking about adverse weather conditions (NMU) and geographical features of the area. The composition and concentration of harmful substances in the atmosphere are reported, as a rule, after the fact.

- The air of Kemerovo is dominated by benzapyrene - a combustion product of any fuel. In the center of the city, in contrast to the sleeping Leninsky district, there is a high content of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide. And the dirtiest point is the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskaya Street and Kuznetsky Prospekt. Here, the "boiler" is the private sector, industrial enterprises, and the transport highway, - said Dmitry Meshcheryakov, deputy head of the department for supervision of communal hygiene of the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor.

“The situation with atmospheric emissions is as follows: thirty percent each comes from the private sector, transport and industrial enterprises, and ten percent from other sources,” Mayor Ilya Seredyuk told reporters. - But when the wind blows from the side of the Zavodskoy district, then the industry is eighty percent to blame, and if emissions are pulled towards Kirovsky and Verkhotomka, then the influence of the factories is not more than twenty percent. And do not forget that the chimney and factory pipes have different heights.

According to Galina Lazovaya, head of the environmental protection department of the Kemerovo Azot, hot technological springs 150 meters high do not cause much harm, their emissions are dispersed in higher layers of the atmosphere, and the concentration of pollutants is reduced. But emissions from pipes no more than thirty meters high accumulate in the surface layer.

- The regional government and supervisory authorities inform that all our enterprises work within the framework of regulations, in strict accordance with technological maps, - emphasizes a member of the regional headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front, Candidate of Biological Sciences Andrei Yegorov. - Meanwhile, for the past four years, the total amount of emissions into the atmospheric air has been increasing, according to Roshydromet, by ten to fourteen percent a year. Gross pollution increased by one hundred thousand tons in two years. At the same time, the share of road and rail transport in the volume of emissions fell from 13.5 to 3.8 percent: the fleet is being updated, carriers are switching to gas motor fuel. And the demolition of the private sector has been going on in the city for several years. What happens, the residents of the remaining houses built a second stove there? It is unlikely, because the average annual temperature in the region has increased by 0.3 degrees. So where does the pollution come from?

- The stream of complaints from the population does not come to an end. In a year or two, the enterprises brought to responsibility are checked again - to eliminate violations, and, if necessary, we go to court. At the same time, the only information that we regularly exchange with Rospotrebnadzor and Roshydromet is the presence of suspended pollutants in the air during the NMU period. Then we request protocols and information on measures taken by large enterprises to reduce emissions into the atmosphere. But we don’t have any information about which of them was the source of pollution,” Ivan Shebalin, assistant to the Kemerovo interdistrict environmental prosecutor, explained.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor's office recently discovered in the Kirovsky district of the regional center a small steel plant for the production of covers for sewer manholes, which operated without a sanitary protection zone and environmental control programs. And after the plot of local television, the prosecutors raided the village of Mozzhukha, where the object of entrepreneurship is covering neighboring yards with coal dust.

- In a word, we extinguish where it is already blazing, pointwise. Yes, only the declarative principle does not allow solving the problem as a whole and acting proactively, - Ekaterina Izhmulkina, co-chair of the regional headquarters of the ONF, stated.

Big business, meanwhile, insists that users of natural resources, controlled by Rosprirodnadzor, report on emissions into the atmosphere on time. Not just small and medium. It is possible that many of them with sources of the third or fourth hazard classes are not registered. At the same time, experienced experts are sure that the share of SMEs in the total emissions is still insignificant.One way or another, but everyone understands: to begin with, an inventory of each unaccounted source (including those that formed after the collapse of large enterprises into LLCs), diagnostics and monitoring, and forecasting the “air” situation for the day ahead are necessary. This should be followed by the transformation of production facilities in order to level the sources of emissions. Apparently, we can not do without a revision of the legislation.

By the way, from March 2022, the procedure for inventorying stationary sources and emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere will change in the country. Organizations will now report on each source separately. For each of them, operating in the pre-threshold mode, norms of permissible environmental impact have been established. And the impact of the enterprise as a whole is no longer considered.

- The result is as follows: individually, everything is normal, but nothing is known about the total emissions. Figures from some reports do not agree with figures from others, - emphasizes Andrey Egorov.

The problem is also that no one really takes into account the negative contribution of boiler houses and thermal power plants that use low-quality coal, just as no one studies the impact of smoldering MSW landfills on the atmosphere. Not to mention the trash cans. The last, according to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, in the municipalities for the year burns 1200 pieces.

Meanwhile

- One of the elements of the "Clean Air" program, which Kemerovo authorities are trying to join, is the compilation of a consolidated volume of maximum permissible emissions (MAE) for the city. In the meantime, Rosprirodnadzor oversees large enterprises, and the regional Ministry of Natural Resources oversees medium and small ones. And the contribution of objects that are not subject to accounting (the private sector, transport, and so on) is not taken into account anywhere in Kuzbass, except for Novokuznetsk, - Dmitry Meshcheryakov notes.

One of the ecologists remembered: a consolidated volume of MPE on Kemerovo existed until 2008. However, the program is not a panacea. Public activists are sure that in any case, the atmospheric air of the regional center should be carefully and comprehensively investigated by an independent accredited scientific organization.

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