Battle For Life: Women Lead the Fight Against the Largest Mining Plant in Russia

According to estimates from the National Mercury Inventory, extracted ores would also contain about 6 grams of mercury per ton of ore.Nadezda Vertiahovskaya, an industrial engineer and chemist based in Cheliabinsk and one of the leaders of the "STOP MPP!" movement, described in her environ...

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Published inWomen + environments international magazine no. 98/99; pp. 7 - 9
Main Author Speranskaya, Olga
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto WEED Foundation 01.07.2017
Subjects
Awards & honors
Construction
Contamination
Copper
Drinking water
Environmental impact
Hazardous materials
Mercury
Mining
Poisons
Pollution
Russia
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Summary:According to estimates from the National Mercury Inventory, extracted ores would also contain about 6 grams of mercury per ton of ore.Nadezda Vertiahovskaya, an industrial engineer and chemist based in Cheliabinsk and one of the leaders of the "STOP MPP!" movement, described in her environmental impact assessment that ground water pollution was inevitable from Tominsky MPP and that it would contaminate Shershnevsky water reservoir - the only source of drinking water supply for Cheliabinsk city and its district.Vera Savchenko, a longtime member of "STOP MPP!" raises questions about the survival of Cheliabinsk city itself after an environmental and social catastrophe caused by Tominsky MMP, because ground water contamination with mining wastes that consist of highly toxic chemicals including mercury and tens tons of sulfuric acid will not only poison drinking water, it will make the soil infertile.According to the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights, Protection and Human Welfare, "if it were not for the women, Tominsky MPP would have already been built.
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ISSN:1499-1993