Residents of the village of Urvan opposed the construction of a garbage disposal factory. August 5, 2024. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKX4T1PnO

08 August 2024, 23:48

KBR villagers achieve ICRF's reaction to their complaints

The head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has ordered to initiate a criminal case on the complaints of residents of the village of Urvan about the operation of a landfill and the construction of a garbage disposal factory.

On August 5, Urvan villagers posted a video appeal addressed to the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The plans to build a waste disposing complex in the village should be revised and the factory should be built further away from the residential area, the authors of the appeal assert. They were sceptical about the authorities' statement about the low environmental risks of the factory. The garbage landfill located in Urvan is poisoning the air in all village areas, commentators said in social networks.

This May, villagers stated that the decision to build a garbage sorting complex was made without taking into account the opinions of the villagers who suffer from the existing landfill.

Alexander Bastrykin, the ICRF Chairman, has ordered to initiate a criminal case based on the Urvan villagers' appeal, the ICRF's Information Centre reported in its Telegram channel.

"There is a large landfill of household waste near the village, because of which residents are suffocating from the pungent smell ... Their appeals to the local administration yielded no results," the message says.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on August 8, 2024 at 06:56 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot

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