Ecologists of the Irkutsk region once again called on the RF President Putin and the chair of the go

Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Mikhail Efimovich!

On December 31, 2004, the decree of the RF Government 1737-p was signed on designing and construction of an oil pipeline system on the route Taishet (Irkutsk region) - Skovorodino (Amur region) - Perevoznaya Bay (Primorsky Krai) with the total capacity of 80 million tons a year ("Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean" pipeline system) and with the cost of 10.75 billion dollars.

We'd like to remind you that "Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean" oil pipeline is going to be constructed in the Baikal drainage basin through the Baikal rift zone, in the epicenter of earthquakes similar to the ones in South-Eastern Asia (9 magnitude on the Richter scale). Our demand to remove the route from the drainage basin of Lake Baikal, as well as other demands of regional ecological non-governmental organizations were not taken into account by the customer of the project.

By reducing time of the state environmental impact assessment, not urging Transneft to provide regional non-governmental organizations of Siberia and the Far East with all the documentation for the public environmental impact assessment, not taking into account opinion of the local population, you personally bear the entire responsibility for consequences of the project in case of an earthquake or oil pollution of the Baikal Lake, which stores 20% of global fresh water.

We impeach credibility of the results of the state environmental impact assessment held under pressure, the results of the public environmental impact assessment held by Moscow regional non-governmental organization "Public Ecology".

We call on you to:
– revoke the regulation
– bind Transneft to provide all organizations, which registered the assessment according to the law, with materials for the public environmental impact assessment
– hold the state environmental impact assessment taking into consideration comments and proposals of public environmental impact assessments.

Greenpeace Russia joins the demands!