Alrosa strengthens IEPP
Alrosa
continue to excursions and
Activities
to promote environment
Alrosa,
a global leader in diamond mining, will spend almost RUB 6 billion on
environment in 2019. Over a five-year period (2019-2023), the company plans to
spend RUB 30 billion (about US$ 466 mn) on these purposes.
“Last
year, Alrosa’s Integrated Environmental Protection Program (IEPP) for 2011-2018
expired. This year, the Environmental Center presented the expanded program for
2019-2023. Alrosa will strengthen measures to protect the environment and
ensure environmental safety in Yakutia. This is a part of our environmental
program,” Polina Anisimova, Head of Alrosa Environmental Center, said.
The
program envisages the protection of the environment from noise, vibration and
other types of physical effects, ensuring the radiation safety of the
environment, protecting the atmospheric air and reducing the negative impact on
climate change.
As
part of water bodies’ protection, the company organizes the collection and
treatment of wastewater; there are also measures for the protection of surface
and groundwater. Starting from the current year, the production control program
includes studies of the wastewater quality at all industrial sites connected to
centralized sewerage systems.
Alrosa
plans to sign agreements for the hazardous waste disposal and neutralization.
This will help to create a one-size-fits-all approach to the safe management of
waste. The company will continue to increase the involvement of waste in
secondary energy resources, which is expected to give not only an
environmental, but also an economic effect.
The
management of the company made an important decision to work out the issue of
safe approaches for the environment at the design stage. There are social and
ecological measures, which include signing the agreements with the Ministry of
Environment of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the National Fund "Bargary
(Revival)", the Directorate of Biological Resources and Specially
Protected Natural Territories of the Ministry of Environment of Yakutia.
The
company will continue to support the unique Living Diamonds of Yakutia natural
park, to expand the list of fish species for stocking the Yakut rivers. Alrosa
will also sign ethnological agreement on indemnification with the Oleneksky
district and will provide recreational payments.
Alrosa
will also continue to organize contests, promotions, excursions and other
activities to promote environmental protection and ensure environmental safety.
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