Director of the Company IPower LLC: Battery Factory in FEZ Brest is Built in Compliance with All Environmental Regulations

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The factory batteries near Brest erected in compliance with all environmental regulations. This was stated by Sergey Melnykovych, Director of the company "IPower", which deals with the construction of the plant, BelaPAN commenting on the protest actions by local residents.

6 Jan campaign against the construction of a battery plant was held in the center of Brest on a pedestrian street Soviet. Residents of the city and the surrounding villages believe that the plant threatened their health and degrade the environment.

According to one of the protesters blogger Sergei Petrukhin, the appeal with signatures will be sent to the presidential Administration, the House of representatives of the Brest regional Executive Committee and regional Council of deputies.

"The signatories will seek suspension of the construction of a battery factory," said Petrukhin.

According to him, the construction of the plant, four kilometers from Brest "people learned from the media only at the end of December 2017, although the decision to build was made long ago, but public comment is not actually carried out".

Petrukhin noted that the notice of public discussion was published in December 2016 in the Brest district newspaper "Zarya nad Bugom", "which few people read".

Director of "IPower" Sergey Melnykovych says he understands the concerns of local residents the question of how the plant will affect the environmental situation in the region.

"This concern is understandable, because it generates a lack of information," said Melnykovych.

He explained that the construction of the plant at the end of December 2016 agreed the Brest zone centre of hygiene and epidemiology, Republican centre of the state ecological examination and improvement of professional skill of executives and experts of the Ministry of natural resources and environmental protection was held by the state environmental expertise of project documentation.

According to Melnykovych, the examination revealed that the project plant complies with the requirements of legislation in the field of air protection, water law, law on the protection and use of fauna, law on subsoil, land legislation, legislation in the field of waste management, in the field of the state ecological expertise, strategic environmental assessment, impact assessment on the environment.

A positive decision on the construction of the plant was issued by the Brest regional Executive Committee, FEZ "Brest" and the Decree, said the head of "IPower".

The plant will start full-cycle production of lead-acid batteries.

The Director noted that the underlying sanitary protection zone for this production is 500 metres away. The plant OOO "IPower" will be located at a distance of 771 metres from the nearest settlement — the Western edge of the settlement hubs. Other settlements are located further 1 km.

According to Melnykovych, to minimize the environmental impact of lead on all emission sources bag filters are installed with purity 99,98%, to minimize the impact of sulfuric acid scrubbers with purity 96-98%. The remains of lead dust that lingers on the filters will be collected and stored in special closedtyh containers.

Scheduled regular local monitoring of condition of atmospheric air, sewage and soil and on a fixed schedule. The results will be submitted to the authorities of the Ministry.

Commenting on the rumor that the plant will use outdated technologies from China, Melnykovych said that "the plant will be equipped with the most modern robotized technological equipment of European and Korean production."