Metinvest's Mariupol Plants to Check Compliance with Environmental Standards Based on Election Results

The day after the local elections, an action to pacify Metinvest from the head of the Donetsk Regional Civil Administration Pavel Zhebrivsky starts in Mariupol. According to the official, from October 26, the authorities will begin to check the observance of environmental standards by the metallurgical plants named after Ilyich and Azovstal.

“Why weren't MMK im. Ilyich and Azovstal? ", - the indignant official is quoted by Novosti Donbassa. “In Mariupol, everything was turned off and everything is being blown into the air,” the governor said.

According to Zhebrivskyi, the Kryvyi Rih Metallurgical Plant pays various environmental payments for UAH 250 million, while its capacity is 1.5 times less than that of the Mariupol plants, which pay UAH 90 million.

The Governor is going to hold a joint meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources in Mariupol.

We will remind that this week in Italy started a mega-trial, in which 44 people appeared in the dock at once: officials and management of the metallurgical plant in Taranto ILVA. They are all charged with the fact that about 400 people died prematurely due to emissions from blast-furnace production in the region.

How many people die in Mariupol from various diseases associated with disgusting ecology is unknown, such statistics have never been published here.