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About 300 companies from St. Petersburg and Leningrad area will shortly receive Greenpeace questionnaire asking for pollution data disclosure. Letters has been sent not only to enterprises which operate its own wastewater discharges but also to companies which use municipal sewer system for wastewater dump.
Greenpeace numerous times demanded from the city authorities to stop receive untreated industrial wastewaters as there is no capacity of municipal wastewater treatment plants to clean wastewaters from wide range of hazardous substances. Only biogenic elements can be treated on municipal wastewater treatment plants. This is why substances lake phtalates, brominated definyl ethers, some heave metals and many other hazardous substances follows by transit through wastewater treatment plants strait to the Gulf of Finland. Instead of water treatment municipal sewer system serves as simple mechanical transporter of contaminated wastewaters out of St. Petersburg strait to the Baltic sea.
In December Greenpeace is going to compile the ranking of St. Petersburg enterprises divided by two groups: companies which made water pollution information available to public and companies declined to disclose environmental data. Greenpeace will publish the results of the survey, ranking list and water pollution data on its water campaign web page www.saveneva.ru immediately after this work will be completed.
Notes to editor
1. Enterprise can not restrict an access to environmental information. Moreover this data must be disclosed upon request to every citizen.
2. Questionnaires has been sent to major chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, food, transport and heavy machinery companies located in St. Petersburg and Leningrad area line Neste, Kirishi oil refinery, Rossija aviation enterprise, Baltica brewery, Izhora factories, Ilim pulp enterprise and many others.
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