Sverdlovsk Region Government Environment and Nature Management Committee held a meeting where the attendees looked into how effectively Sredneuralsky Steel-Smelting Plant was complying with the plan to cut down on the amount of harmful atmospheric emissions. The committee reports that even though some efforts have obviously been made, the plant still keeps violating the existing environmental regulations. The plant does not stick to the maximum permissible discharge of sulphur dioxide, ferrous oxide, led and its compounds, copper oxide, sulphuric acid (the maximum permissible discharge was exceeded by 14.5 times), and aluminum oxide (the maximum permissible discharge was exceeded by 1.7 times). Besides, the enterprise dumps pollutants and manufacturing water and fails to promptly upgrade its vitriolic production facilities (the company only used 6 billion RUR out of the 11 billion RUR allotted for this year).


On the other hand, the company did manage to monitor the quality of air in three automatic monitoring stations and adopted a conservation plant for 2006-2010. Then, the amount of emissions dropped by 2,879 tons compared to 2004. One of the plant’s major challenges now is to cut down to the maximum permissible discharge limits in 2008.