Fifteen airports located in Ural Federal District will be reconstructed, with 23bn RUR to be allocated for the purpose by 2015, Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Evgeny Kuivashev announced at a recent meeting of the economic policy committee. There are twenty-eight airports in the district altogether, seven of which are international ones, nineteen of which are regional ones, and two of which are just local ones. ‘Our most important task is to develop the short-haul and local air transportation services, this is why the Russian President’s

UralElectroMed dumped 610 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 14.2% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov feels that the region has a unique set of aluminum production facilities, with enterprises operating stably from Severouralsk to Kamensk-Uralsky. However, the processing and production of aluminum are made complicated by the fact that there are no hydroelectric power stations in Sverdlovsk Region, so the energy-intensive aluminum production is costlier in terms of electricity bills here than in other parts of Russia. ‘I believe that UC RUSAL’s management should invest in its own energy

Piastrella dumped 220 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 4.2% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Polevskoy. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

UC RUSAL created tension in Krasnouralsk on purpose, in order to exert pressure on the authorities, as the company hopes to make the electric power prices go down in this way, Chairman of Severouralsk division of Russian Miners’ Independent Trade Union Valery Zolotarev told UrBC. ‘RUSAL might go to court and fight for lower prices for as long as one year, but nothing would come out of it. This has happened before. It is easier for the company to increase the social tensions to force the authorities to pay attention to the problem. This is what is actually happening right now,’ Zolotarev