Sibanthracite Group has developed and implemented an environmental program that minimizes the environmental impact of production. The environmental quality is regularly monitored and meets the standards. To improve the environmental situation, new technologies and modern environmental protection systems are introduced at Sibanthracite facilities.
Protection of the atmosphere
The Group permanently monitors the quality of atmospheric air at the boundaries of the sanitary protection zones of the facilities. Monitoring is performed by independent accredited laboratories. The observations demonstrate that all indicators comply with the applicable legal requirements of the Russian Federation.
Additional activities are performed at the facilities to improve the atmospheric air quality.
Water environment protection
The quality of water in the rivers near Sibanthracite facilities is monitored by independent laboratories on a monthly basis. Pit waters are fed into the clarifiers through the pipeline system and after sedimentation of solids and trapping of foreign particles on the boom filters, they are released into water bodies.
Drainage ditches are installed along the process roads at all Group facilities to exclude the flowing of wastewater from roads into surface water bodies.
Siberian Anthracite continues to build clarifiers on the territory of the mining pits. In 2019, Open-Pt Mine Kiyzassky prepared additional waste water treatment facilities at Uregolsky 3-4 mining pit for commissioning, started the construction of treatment facilities at Uregolsky 5-6 mining pit, cleaned 69 clarifiers along the technological road.
Conservation of natural systems
Reclamation projects are available for all Sibanthracite production properties. Land reclamation works are performed on an ongoing basis. A total of 66 000 trees (64 300 coniferous trees and more than 2 000 deciduous trees) were planted in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions as part of the reclamation and landscaping projects in 2020. 800 000 coniferous trees were planted in these regions as part of Russia’s Ecology Program.
As part of the annual stocking activities, juvenile whitefish, nelma, grayling, muksun fish are released into local rivers. In 2020 the Sibanthracite Group released 163 000 juvenile fish to Siberia’s rivers.