ITAR-TASS News Agency, December 29, 2000
Russian Government Considers Nature Protection Measures
By Ivan Ivanov
The Russian government believes that elaboration and implementation of a set
of economic steps is of primary importance for enhancing the effectiveness
of nature protection measures.
Journalists were told at the Government Information Department here about
the Friday meeting of the cabinet, which had considered this problem. These
steps will be taken primarily against enterprises responsible for soil,
water and air pollution, and for making irrational use of natural resources.
The government also believes that it is necessary to radically improve the
registration of dangerous installations, to properly assess dangerous
ejections into the atmosphere, to enact a procedure for determining payments
for inflicted damages, and to ensure financial guarantees. In view of the
present financial condition of most of the enterprises, poor condition of
the basic production facilities and their technological backwardness, the
Russian government deems it expedient to resort to voluntary ecological
insurance.
It was also noted at the meeting of the government that safeguarding and
development of specially protected natural territories should be among the
priority directions of the state's ecological policy. Parallel with the
development and perfection of the system of state natural preserves and
national parks, it is also necessary to make broader use of the method of
reserving particularly valuable areas of natural ecological systems with a
view to eventually turning them into protected natural preserves.
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