Krasnodar GRES Project Volume I11 Environmental Assessment

Anreychuk: Let it be 8 pages, but pages one can understand: here is the
standard, here's what the plant will emit, here's its impact radius.
Anikin: The directorate will present a statement like that in early July.
Mishenko, Head of the Water Treatment Facilities:
We don't need construction round here. Even saigaks (a rare
species of animals) are better protected than us. What about us?
Our women are always sick. Better build a dam and a hydro.
Donvovstev: If only they brought some civilization into the district. Promises,
promises ... They propose a shift basis. Construction site caravans
and all that. The place will be flooded by strangers and we will
have to work for them, What we need is recreation and services.
Seventy percent of the construction staff will be outsiders,
construction workers. Why have a power plant inside a nature
reserve? Nowadays we receive electric power all the way from the
lnguri Hydro Power Plant. I'll tell you why our district has been
chosen for the construction project: there is a railway, there is
rubble, there is sand here. It's cost-efficient. Lost of others have
gone this way, and we will too. Economy is the prime concern
rather than health. There is no one to stand up and say: "That's
enough, guys. Lets start building already." We do not believe
they will ever start building that power plant.
Correspondent of the Predgorye Newspaper:
How many places like Kuban are left? Kuban is a pearl. But it will
become an old mare, not pearl.
Abrosimov: The population density is 7 people per squire kilometer.
Anikin: I hear there is a museum of hunting in the township.
Anreychuk: That's right up my alley. It'll be a pleasure to show you around.
The idea was to make it a museum of the Caucasus Biosphere
Nature Reserve. OK, so we will be looking forward to receiving a
statement of the plant's environmental impact sometime in early
July.
Prepared by V. Anikin, KSAU
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