{"id":12583,"date":"2018-05-18T19:50:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anticorr.media\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:52:25","slug":"why-hasnt-kobylkin-become-a-prime-minister-and-kot-refused-to-take-the-position-of-the-yamals-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anticorr.media\/en\/why-hasnt-kobylkin-become-a-prime-minister-and-kot-refused-to-take-the-position-of-the-yamals-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Why hasn\u2019t Kobylkin become a prime minister and Kot refused to take the position of the Yamal\u2019s head?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dmitry Medvedev affirmed the candidacy of the YNAO governor Dmitry Kobylkin for the position of the head of the Ministry of natural resources and ecology. Kobylkin was even expected to be the PM but the decision was different, unexpected and provocative. For the eight years Kobylkin has been the head of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug during which time the ecological situation in this region has become terrible: illegal dump sites take too much space and the water taps of the citizens are full of water which is enriched with iron and manganese. Now Dmitry Kobylkin will be engaged into the ecological situation of the whole country. According to media resources, the head of the Yamal LNG (Yamal <\/strong>\u0421\u041f\u0413<\/strong>) Evgeniy Kot has refused to take the offered position of the governor. And we guess that the reason is the \u2018rich heritage\u2019 of the Kobylkin\u2019s deeds. <\/strong><\/p>\n

In search of life-giving water<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The journalists together with the experts from the autonomous noncommercial organization \u2018Stolichniy tsentr yuridicheskoy diagnostiki i sudebnoy ekspertisy\u2019 (The metropolitan center of legal diagnostics and legal enquiry) took Yamal\u2019s water samples. The results of the examination confirmed that the water quality fails to meet the Sanitary Regulations and Standards<\/u><\/a> (SanPiN).<\/p>\n

For example, the water samples from Urengoy fail to meet the SanPiN standards 2.1.4.1074-01<\/a> upon the following indications: permanganate oxidizability (the marker reflects the overall concentration of organi\u0441 matters in water) is in excess of 1.53 times, iron content is in excess of 25 (!!!) times, manganese content is in excess of 3.26 times. Also the turbidity and the water color indexes fail to meet the requirements. Less people know that in YNAO the permissible level of iron and manganese content in water has been exceeded of 2 times, but even with these adjustment the quantity of iron and manganese in both samples is over the limits.<\/p>\n

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Hepatic disorders, heart attack risks and chronic intoxication: what are the other \u2018benefits\u2019 of Yamal\u2019s water? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

What is hidden behind the cold hard numbers? Medical workers believe that \u2018the intake of water with the exceeded amount of iron leads to liver disorders, increases the heart attack risks, negatively affects the reproductive system and is one of the main reasons for allergies\u2019.<\/p>\n

And the manganese in the water is able to get inside the small intestine, bones, kidneys, endocrine glands and affects the brain. The result of the continuous water intake with the exceeded amount of the mentioned chemical elements is the chronical intoxication. <\u2026> It is extra dangerous for pregnant women to drink water with high content of manganese.<\/p>\n


\nThe UN opinion: the authorities must step in <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The international anti-corruption portal<\/u><\/a> has filed a request with the UNEP<\/a> embassy (the Environmental Program of the United Nations Organization) in Russia and enquired to comment on the results of the water analyses. According to Ekaterina Fegina, media advisor, UNEP can make a move, to start with the experts involvement, but only in case the Russian authorities will ask them to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there was a request sent to the ministry, and if the answer was, for example: \u2018we don\u2019t have time for that, we are busy with something different and you should live as you like\u2019, then, unfortunately, we cannot interfere. If the country believes that the health issues of the citizens of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug are not important then it is a question for the local authorities, a kick for them to start pressing and lobbying this issue, because the head of the region must force it into action, this issue can\u2019t be left unsolved because the health of the local people is in the hands of those who have the governance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nowadays Dmitry Kobylkin serving as the minister of Natural Resources shall take all the appropriate steps to have the clean water run from the people\u2019s taps.<\/p>\n


\nWhole Yamal is the hazard zone <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Directorate of the Federal Service on Surveillance for Consumer rights protection and human well-being of YNAO has published a report named \u201cOn the condition of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the citizens in 2017\u201d. The focus of this report was on the quality of water. The results of the investigations in the whole region surprise and frighten us not less than the sample results from two separate locations.
\nThat way, \u201c852 water sample tests on general sanitary and chemical indexes and 1319 samples on microbiological indexes \u2018fail to meet the sanitary regulations for 8.1 per cent. In the municipalities of the autonomous okrug there is a service of 82 utility and drinking water supplies 32 of which (39%) do not meet the sanitary requirements. The excess of the health-based exposure limit of the amount of iron, manganese, rarely ammonia, in the drinking water from the central water supply systems was registered in 172 samples.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from blogger Mihail Ronkainen video’s about “Laguna” in Labytnangi<\/p>\n

In Shuryshkarskiy region there are no utility and drinking water supplies at all. There are three industrial water pipe-lines in Muzhi, Gorki and Ovgort localities but the last two are seasonable and used for maximum 3 months a year.<\/p>\n

In such a case, it is impossible to talk about any positive dynamics in the situation connected to the water quality in the region. For example, in 2014 7.3% of samples didn\u2019t match the requirements. In 2015 this number fell to 5.8%, and in 2016 again increased to 8.1%. Such scatter in the results is a sign of the effect of the external factors and it doesn\u2019t mean that the authorities have done the methodical work, changed the service lines or put the purification facilities into service.<\/p>\n

Where do the waste products go? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

One more problem of the region is the purification and the sterilizing of the discharged water. According to the data of the Federal Service on Surveillance for Consumer rights protection and human well-being, some purification systems are worn down with use and the purification methods are outdated. Moreover, there are some reasons to suppose that in some of the localities of the region the liquid household waste (LHW) are utilized improperly. For example, in Urengoy the machines which collect and dispose the LHW, drive to the local dump site instead of the purification systems. Our correspondents took a lot of efforts to follow them and to record the video about the rout of the sewage cleaning machine.<\/p>\n