The Role of Inter-Sectoral Partnerships in Development of Regional and Local PRTRs

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The Role of Inter-Sectoral Partnerships in
Development of Regional and Local PRTRs
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• Elena Vasileva, Volgograd-Ecopress
• Olga Speranskaya, Eco-Accord/IPEN
• Russia, Volgograd region

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The Southern Industrial Zone of Volgograd, Russia

• environmental emergency
• wastewater collection/evaporation ponds of
  Khimprom and Kaustic companies
• wastewater collection ponds with their overall
  area of 160 km2 caused air, soil and groundwater
  pollution on the area of 720 km2
• More that 50 chemicals compounds were identified
  in the pollution zone (chlorine, organofluorine
  compounds, phenols, arsenic, lead, vinyl
  chloride, etc.)

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Industrial Zone, Russia
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Industrial facility, Russia
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Wastewater collection
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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• SAICM GPA WORK AREAS ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND
  INFORMATION
• Develop a national PRTR/emission inventory design
  process involving affected and interested parties.

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• STAGES OF PRTR DEVELOPMENT
• Step 1 establishment of a working group,
  incorporating
• non-governmental organisations
• representatives of governmental environmental
  authorities
• industrial facilities
• medical and technical research and education
  facilities
• mass media outlets
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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• Step 2 selection of a facility (criteria)
• a major facility, with particularly hazardous
  toxic pollutants in its emissions and releases
  (the largest emissions/releases in qualitative
  and quantitative terms)
• top managers of the facility are ready to
  implement a policy of open provision of
  information on its emissions and discharges
• a well equipped analytical laboratory
• active public involvement.

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• 18 enterprises (chemical, petrochemical,
  metallurgical, mechanical industry, housing and
  public utilities)
• Toxic releases and emissions into water and air,
  waste
• For reporting purposes, 32 chemicals were
  selected as the most relevant pollutants in the
  Southern Industrial Zone of Volgograd

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• ammonium nitrogen
• nitrogen
• aluminum
• aniline salt
• benzene
• pH

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• suspended solid particles
• vinylidene chloride
• vinyl chloride
• dichloroethane
• ferriferrous
• calcium
• dimethylbenzene

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• methylene chloride
• solid residue
• synthetic surfactants
• petrochemicals
• nickel
• nitrate ions
• mercury

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• sulphate
• sulphide
• methylbenzene
• trichlorethane
• phenols

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• phosphates
• phosphorous
• fluorides
• chlorine
• chloride
• chlorine methyl
• chloroform

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PRTR pilot initiative in Volgograd

• Step 4 software application with
• information on
• sampling points
• list of chemicals
• emission limits for water, air and waste

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Further steps

• Collect data and update the database
• Access to computer
• Dissemination of the system among other
  facilities
• Planning transition from "end-of-the-pipe"
  control to control of a chemical's life cycle at
  the facility

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Further steps

• INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FACILITIES
• IMPROVE THE REPORTING SYSTEM ON WASTE
  (types/components)
• WORK WITH FACILITIES ON DATA INTERPRETATION
• WORK WITH NGOs, CITIZENS AND MEDIA ON DATA
  INTERPRETATION

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Further steps

• development of PRTRs at local and regional levels
  is the most optimal way for introduction of a
  system of environmental reporting in Russia.
• Stakeholder participation NGOs, facilities,
  media
• develop PRTRs at the base of governmental
  environmental enforcement bodies or at the base
  of major industrial facilities-polluters

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Volgograd Project follow up

• Virtual NGO Forum on PRTR development
  coordinated by Greenwomen NGO (Kazakhstan),
  Eco-Accord (Russia) with financial support from
  UNITAR