"To the heads of the territorial bodies of Rosprirodnadzor: to organize unscheduled field inspections in relation to the subsoil until December 31, 2020 in order to comply with the terms of subsoil use," the text of the TASS order cites.
According to Radionova, the enterprises will be checked for unauthorized use of subsoil, the reliability of the information provided and pollution of water bodies and soil.
The head of the department stressed that the importance of such checks is shown by the emergency at the Sisim gold mining enterprise in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in October 2019, as a result of which 20 people died and 23 more were injured.
At the end of July, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia approved the indictment against the general director, site manager and mining foreman of the Sisim gold mining enterprise in a criminal case of a dam break.
According to the investigation, the incident occurred due to the defendant's failure to comply with the requirements of the project documentation for the development of a gold-bearing quarry.
On October 19, 2019, in the Kuraginsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a cascade breakthrough of the dams of the technological reservoir of a gold mining artel occurred in a gold mining quarry.