Sverdlovsk Region-based Reftinskaya power station (the asset of Enel OGK-5) reduced its atmospheric emissions by 21.4% in 2011 compared with 2010 due to decreased electric power output, less heavy use of coal, and the need to stop power-generating unit 5 for reconstruction. The emissions of Gazprom’s Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk went down by 15.3% due to cutting back on the amount of scheduled preventive repairs of pipeline sections and therefore reduced methane emissions; Rezhnickel’s atmospheric emissions declined by 14.6% because the company’s production output shrank and the plant stopped

‘Our jet fuel price must correspond with the market reality. We have no intention of either dumping or overpricing, we are forbidden to do so by the antimonopoly legislation,’ says Koltsovo Filling Station’s Director-General Andrei Gigovsky. The completion of TNK-BP’s acquisition of Koltsovo Filling Station, the jet fuel storage and filling operator at Yekaterinburg’s airport, was announced on March 11, 2012. Now Koltsovo Airport is considered to be one of Russia’s most expensive airports to fill one’s planes in. The legitimacy of jet fuel prices the airport offers has been repeatedly

In 2011, Enel OGK-5’s enterprises dumped 313,000 tons of pollutants in the air, which amounted to 28.4% of all the emissions in Sverdlovsk Region last year. This was the largest figure among Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises in 2011. These data are available from the state report on the environmental situation in Sverdlovsk Region in 2011. Enel OGK-5 runs Sredneuralskaya and Reftinskaya power stations in Sverdlovsk Region.

The enterprises of Enel OGK-5 and Gazprom’s Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk are responsible for the largest share of harmful atmospheric emissions in Sverdlovsk Region. This information is available from the report on the environmental situation in the region that was elaborated by the Government. The next top polluters on the list are EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Plant, EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works, TGK-9’s Sverdlovsky subsidiary, OGK-1, Svyatogor, OGK-2, A.K. Serov Metallurgical Plant, Siberian-Urals Aluminium Company (SUAL), EVRAZ Vysokogorsky Ore Mining &

Ural Airlines announces a special offer on its Yekaterinburg-Larnaca-Yekaterinburg flights. Round trip tickets are available for 19,000 RUR (including all charges). Flights will be operated every Wednesday starting April 25 and every Wednesday and Sunday starting May 27, the airline’s press service reports. All of Ural Airlines’ flights are operated using the comfortable Airbus A320 planes that have a business class section. Tickets to all destinations are available via the carrier’s official website www.uralairlines.com and in the booking offices.