Fuel and energy complex of Yakutia: environmental aspects

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Savvinov, Grigory N, Velichenko, Valery V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2021
• Subjects: Sakha; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/808/1/012062; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/808/1/012062; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/808/1/012062/pdf

Abstract The article discusses the issues of ecology of enterprises of the fuel and energy complex of Yakutia (FEC). The research was carried out on the basis of the study of the stock materials of the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North of the NEFU, literature sources and a detailed analysis of departmental materials of the profile ministries of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The data on emissions into the atmosphere and discharges into watercourses carried out by the enterprises of the fuel and energy complex are presented. The development of mineral deposits in Yakutia is carried out mainly by the open method with the massive use of drilling and blasting operations, as a result of which dust and gas emissions into the atmosphere and the removal of finely dispersed clay material into water bodies occur. A serious source of emission of pollutants into the atmosphere among energy enterprises is housing and communal services, the emission from which comes practically without purification. The analysis of the materials made it possible to establish that the activities of enterprises in the fuel and energy complex as a whole comply with the requirements of the environmental legislation of the Russian Federation, and the impact of enterprises on the ecological state of the atmosphere of the republic is of a local nature. The quality of the environment in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is assessed as satisfactory.