clean fresh water or dirty money? baikalsk pulp and paper mill
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Clean fresh water or dirty money?
Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill
Viacheslav LiUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
Speech 251Spring 2012
Outline
● Lake Baikal● Fresh water● Baikal endemics● One day on a hike● Pollution. Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill● Ways of solution● Raising people's awareness
UNESCO World Heritage List
“Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains
20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its
age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater
faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science.”
Endemic Flora and Fauna
More than 80% animals and plants are endemic!
Baikal Seal (lives in fresh water)
Money? Bureaucracy?
● Opened in 1966 ● Primary military purposes became obsolete next
year● Personnel: 1600 (2009)● Debt: 1.2bn RUR ($40m) (2009)● Owner: 49% government,
51% “Continentalinvest”● Products: low quality Pulp and paper
The Problem
Ski resort losses
Pollution (affects water, animals, plants, humans)
Money laundry
Authoritarian Russian government, bureaucracy
Unawareness in society (including inside and outside Russia)
Sources● http://www.greenpeace.org/russia/ru/campaigns/baikal/● http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126609485● http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/12/pollution-water-russia-deripaska● http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10739378● http://theanthropologist.net/#/JimDenevan● http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/754● http://www.greenpeace.org/russia/ru/news/09-09-2011-Baikal-tick/
● https://picasaweb.google.com/109404683327204057703/Baikal2011#
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