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.