Ban on shipyards at Lake Baikal can be lifted

The ban on operation of shipbuilding and ship repairing yards at Lake Baikal can be lifted, says the press center of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. The Ministry’s social council has decided to consider the issue within the framework of a special working group represented by ecological organizations like Greenpeace and WWF Russia as well as regional and municipal authorities of Irkutsk.

The proposal to exclude wood processing, shipbuilding, ship repairing and fish processing industries from the list of banned industries within the Central Ecological Area of Lake Baikal was made by the Irkutsk Region Government. 

RF Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy also ordered related authorities prepare amendments into the legislation for the state ecological approval for all projects within the Central Ecological Area of Lake Baikal.