"Your legs should be darker than those of the potato field!" Ventspils bullying about a dusty city

The municipality expresses its dissatisfaction with the ongoing events, which accuses the port company of reluctance to communicate. The company has both rejected the allegations and has not detected violations by the State Environmental Service (VVD).

Ventspils is a city where the port is located in the heart of the city – on the Venta coast, next to the old town and the residential area. Therefore, people with different types of dust must live regularly. However, the situation became unbearable – the coal dust is carried by the wind throughout the city

Agnese Jansone

Ventspils inhabiting

If you are in a children's village or if you walk in the grbad near the castle your legs would be darker than the potato field. Even in an apartment, children who walk barefoot do not even need one day, after half an hour there is a black foot. Yes, the window is open, of course, but the window may not open at 30 degrees.

To find a solution to the problem, the population even collected 175 signatures which, together with the letter, are sent to the Ministry of Regional Development and to the NGO.

Didzis Ošenieks

Vice President of the Ventspils City Council (Latvia and Ventspils)

Permits are issued and controlled by the National Environmental Service, the Regional Agency for the 39 environment management Ventspils, and they are also required to be responsible. The weather is unfavorable to the transshipment of products and, from the point of view of society and from the point of view of the municipality of Ventspils, measures to be taken

The municipality also met the stone in the field of entrepreneurs who n & # 39; 39 did not do enough to limit the floods. "It is possible to drive along Venta with the possibility to roll these pills away from the Venta, but as we do not see, there is at best one – I would say a garden waterman," continues Ošenieks. 19659016] The company rejects allegations of inaction.

Alīna Rugine

Representative of Ventspils Trade Harbor

Today, the situation is serious not only in Ventspils, but in general in Latvia, and these are the weather conditions – drought, no rain. As a socially responsible company, we continue to intensify watering by introducing additional technical solutions and hoping that weather conditions will improve soon.

The VVD of the Ventspils Regional Environmental Board stresses that the company must take several steps to improve the situation. 10 meters high, additional watering equipment must be installed.

Anna Adamsone

Deputy Director of the Ventspils Environmental Department

The area is really intensely hydrated and watered, the area is cleaned. The fact that dust is in this dry weather is what we all saw and discovered. I myself checked the benches on the embankment – they are not dirty – I was a Saturday, yesterday I was, they are not dirty. Then, for the company, we had to organize a meeting with the public before the end of the month and inform about what had already been done and what was going to be done

Environmental monitors are looking at very close to the process of handling coal

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