In Brest will be held a series of meetings with the public and experts to discuss issues on the proposed activity of battery plant IPower LLC. The initiator of the meetings was organized by the public Association "Ecodom".
Representatives of public Association "Ecohome" letters were sent to the address of the Brest city Executive Committee and IPower LLC recommendations on increase of efficiency of interaction with the public. Among the measures to promote dialogue was also requested to organize the collection of issues and opinions relevant to the proposed activity of IPower LLC and conduct comprehensive consultation with the public.
On 7 February on the basis of the administration of FEZ "Brest" was held a coordinating round table organization of future public dialogue. In an organizational meeting attended by the parties, providing interaction with the public throughout the period of construction of a battery factory: representatives of state and public groups of environmental control of the administration of FEZ "Brest", Brest city, district and regional Executive committees, IPower LLC, and the Ecohome.
Meeting participants identified a mechanism for collecting questions from the public about the planned economic activity of IPower LLC discussed the themes of the round tables and, in accordance with it, the profile experts, as well as ways of involving the wider public in discussion and informing about the results of the discussion.
Based on the proposals of the Ecohome, and acting on the principles of openness, IPower LLC posted information about collecting questions from the public.
Soon there will be two meetings:
Theme 1: "Forms and ways of public participation in decision-Valof base solutions." At the round table invited representatives of the Aarhus centre of the Republic of Belarus. Questions for the round table formed on the basis of previous references and reviews in the Internet.
Theme 2: "analysis of the impact of battery production on the environment and human rights". At the roundtable invited experts from the Russian Federation. Questions will be accepted until 16.02.2020.
To ensure that the questions were asked to the experts, they can be sent to:
— on the open line of the Group of companies 1AK-GROUP, which operates in the form of chat on the website 1ak-group. com, e-mail — info@1ak-group. com, as well as to the postal address of the enterprise LLC "IPower" — 224020, Brest region, Brest, ul. Pionerskaya d. 52, of. 608.
— e-mail Ecohome — brestzavod@gmail. com
To present results of the round tables will be invited mass media and information will be published on the website 1ak-group. com.