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Toxic Industrial Waste Threatens St. Petersburg, Officials Warn

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Toxic Industrial Waste Threatens St. Petersburg, Officials Warn

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9/18/18
Russia’s security chief has warned that 2 million metric tons of industrial waste outside St. Petersburg threaten the health of the city’s 5 million residents. Some 30 kilometers from the city, the Krasny Bor landfill, which was dug as a temporary site for hazardous waste produced by the city’s industrial giants, has been described as a “time bomb.” The toxic waste storage facility has been closed since 2014 and Russia enlisted neighboring Finland and Sweden to help in cleaning the site. The head of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, chastised the northwest region’s waste treatment industry as a criminal enterprise, singling out inaction at Krasny Bor with its 2 million metric tons of hazardous waste. “The Environment Ministry and the St. Petersburg administration need to immediately take measures to improve the environmental situation near the landfill,” Patrushev was quoted as saying by the state-run TASS news agency. Krasny Bor is a “dangerous environmental bomb,” the presidential envoy in the Northwest Federal District, Alexander Beglov, was cited as saying by TASS.
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The situation of toxic landfills in Russia came to light earlier this year in cities across Siberian Russia. Local populations were experiencing higher than expected death rates, elevated rates of cancer, and toxic poisonings on an unprecedented level. Protests in many cities continued for weeks until Moscow promised to take preventative measures, which dissipated after the elections in March.
 
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