20 July 2007, 18:43
Greenpeace accuses LLC "Lukoil" of deliberate polluting land and air of Volgograd Region
During a joint spot-check of the territory of the Svetloyarskiy District, Volgograd Region, the Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Greenpeace international ecological organization revealed a small lake full of liquid of unknown origin. A comparative chemical analysis has shown that its composition is identical to the liquid waste of the sludge disposal site of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka," located some 500 meters off the lake.
Elena Vasilyeva, Director of the IC "Volgograd-Ecopress," has explained in her interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the new toxic lake has concentration of petroleum products equal to 308 grams per cubic decimetre (dm3) and of phenols - 780 mg/dm3, which is thousands times higher than the Maximum Permissible Concentration (MPC) in petroleum products and hundreds thousand times higher than the MPC in phenols.
The administration of the enterprise had made a decision to neutralize the accumulated oil sludge and other oil processing wastes through technology of lime treatment. However, actually, the oil sludge is covered with soil and its content is pumped out into the land relief. The responsibility for the oil sludge of the LLC "Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka" is born by Mr Glukhovskoj, V. S., head of water supply, sewerage and purification facilities, and Mr Vinnikov, A. L., head of the ecological service.
"The Administration of the Svetloyarskiy District, in particular, Mr Knyazev, I. V., who is closely cooperating with Mr Anisimov, V. I., Chief Engineer of the LLC "Lukoil-VNP," acquiesces the discharge of petroleum products," - Elena Vasilyeva has added.
On the revealed fact of breaching the nature protection legislation and deliberate pollution by the enterprise with toxic wastes of the territory, which is municipal property, the public organizations have drawn up and sent complaints and requests to all the environmental and law enforcement bodies.
Author: Vyacheslav Yashchenko, CK correspondent
