The ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga (Leningrad region) and the gas pipeline Nord Stream meet all the environmental standards, IAA PortNews journalist cites the Chairman of RF Government Dmitry Medvedev as saying at the Baltic Sea Forum being held in St. Petersburg.
According to him, the environmental monitoring of their activities held in 2012 and in previous years confirmed that there was no environmental impact, if there was an impact, it was minor, local and short-term only.
Earlier, the authorities of a number of European countries expressed their concern about the launch of an oil cargo complex in the port of Ust-Luga, which, to the opinion of foreign ecologists, endangered the environment.
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