ESPO oil pipeline: assessment of impact on social and economic development of municipal districts

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Author: Dets, I A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2019
• Subjects: Yakutia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/381/1/012018; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/381/1/012018/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/381/1/012018

Abstract The article presents the conducted analysis of the impact of the ESPO pipeline construction and operation on the socio-economic development of the territories along its route. The study area included municipal areas along the western part of the ESPO oil pipeline (the so-called ESPO-1): six municipal areas of Irkutsk region, four municipal areas of Yakutia and two municipal areas of Amur region. The study showed poor availability of jobs in oil pumping stations of the oil pipeline system, as well as the small amount of tax payments currently coming to the budgets of settlements and municipal districts, which is mainly explained by the existing system of redistribution of tax revenues. The change in the level of accessibility of transport infrastructure for the local population is also controversial: technological routes along the oil pipeline have departmental affiliation with limited access for third parties and individuals. As a result, despite the declared social orientation, the oil pipeline failed to bring enough positive changes for the majority of the territories, which resulted in much worse dynamics of the population relative to its regions in all municipal districts except for the Taishetsky district of Irkutsk region.