Battery plant in Brest will not cause damage to the environment - Malkin
June 6, Minsk /Correspondent. . > > > Battery plant in Brest with proper maintenance will not cause damage to the environment, said the first Deputy Minister of natural resources and environmental protection Iya Malkina in interview to TV channel Belarus 1, BelTA informs.
"With proper maintenance the environmental damage the factory applied will not. It is not provided, foundry, accordingly, will not be a melting processes. In accordance with the environmental legislation of Belarus the given object is classified to the 5th category of danger from the point of view of air emissions is the least dangerous class productions," said Iya Malkina.
Specialists will conduct ongoing monitoring of the background environmental load of heavy metals — lead, zinc, copper and cadmium. As reported at the briefing on 6 June, the Director of Polessky agrarian-ecological Institute NAS of Belarus Nikolay Mikhalchuk, the administration of FEZ "Brest" has concluded with Institute the agreement on monitoring of the industrial zone in the airport area for its ecological status. The project includes a 500-meter sanitary protection zone of the enterprise under construction. However, at the suggestion of scientists the radius monitoring can be extended to 1.5-2 km. taking into account the wind rose will be the site of permanent monitoring points (sampling points). "The entire system consists of 64 points of observation, 42 — soil, the rest soil and plants. The main task is the calculation to setting conditional background concentration content of gross and mobile forms of heavy metals. The actual work has already begun. The company could be launched in the current year", — said the Director of the Institute.
Battery plant "IPower" built on site "The airport" free ecological zone "Brest". The investor intends to invest more than $20 million In the first phase, the company plans to create 138 jobs. Here will be established a complete production cycle batteries for cars.
Took part in the briefing, the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for science and technologies Sergey Shcherbakov said that the innovative component of the project allowed to include it in the state program of innovative development. "The concept of establishing a closed production cycle allows including recycled batteries to recycle and produce from them new. So far we processed the available batteries and fine lead supplied to other countries. They were doing the batteries and brought to the us. Now this product we use at home, dramatically lowering the cost and increasing the competitiveness of the product", — added Sergey Shcherbakov.