The representatives of the council are not allowed to enter the premises of JSC "Ventspils tirdzniecības osta", the State Environmental Service promises to provide information

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in 2018. g. July 20, 13:56 / Ventspils City Council Photo: Ventspils Chronic Archives

It has already been reported that today, July 20, Ventspils Regional Administration meeting of the Service of the environment with representatives of the company "Ventspils tirdzniecības osta" Despite the fact that at the request of the City, the Ventspils Regional Council for the Environment has accepted the participation of the representatives of the Council at the same time. 39, a meeting organized at the premises of JSC "Ventspils Trade Port" The vice president of the Ventspils City Council, D. Ošenieks, has not forwarded the pbades to the city councilors and does not admit the meeting rooms, thus preventing the Ventspils City Council from engaging fully in the discussion on this issue

The Ventspils Trading Port Issuing Permits for Polluting Activities at the JSC Ventspils Commercial Port and, therefore, it is the state responsible for monitoring the situation, controlling and limiting excesses. environmental service. The municipality can only express its opinion. In this area, individual citizens and non-governmental organizations have more options than the municipality in legislation. In 2013, during the examination of the polluting activity license application of the joint-stock company "Ventspils tirdzniecības osta", which provided for an increase in the volume of coal, the municipality is categorically opposed to it. . The municipality expressed its opinion not only to the responsible institution, but also to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, the National Environmental Service and even the Prime Minister of the Ministry of the Environment. # 39; era.

Ventspils City Council to ensure greater public awareness of the quality of the city and the measures taken to ensure the transshipment of coal, asked the State Environmental Service Ventspils and the Ventspils port of commerce company "to urgently organize a press conference to publicly provide answers to questions of public interest and importance." The dome has not received any answer to this question up to now