‘It took me a long time to understand why Enel OGK-5 has organized public hearings that do not comply with the existing legislation. Having read the comments you gave to the media, I can now see that you actually admit you don’t know the Russian laws and that you never presented any environmental estimates of the plant’s activity at these hearings,’ Chairman of the International Socio-Environmental Union Vladimir Terekhov says in his letter to Enel OGK-5 PR Director Vasiliy Zakharov.

What Zakharov actually said was that the multi-faceted evaluation of their company’s environmental impact was an essential part of their feasibility report, to be presented to the state experts, but not at the public hearings.

‘If you had read the Federal Act 174 (Environmental Examination), you would have at least found out what the public hearings are needed for in the first place. Your lack of professionalism does damage to the entire managerial team’s reputation. When one gives such badly improvised comments, one puts the reconstruction project itself in jeopardy,’ the letter says.