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30 May 2011

Author:
SIBNOVOSTI [Russia]

Court orders 9 businesses to stop cultivating vegetables on contaminated soil in Krasnoyarsk province [Russia]

[Title translation and summary translation of the original Russian language article provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre] The regional and district courts of the Krasnoyarsk province ordered owners of land plots and Chinese land-users to cease the operations of nine entities cultivating vegetables on contaminated land in Berezovskiy, Yemelianovskiy and Minusinskiy districts of the province, with a total area of 282 hectares. The courts also ordered restoration of those lands. Furthermore, further petitions were filed in the Yemelianovskiy and Kanskiy district courts for the termination of vegetable production on 214 hectares of the land exposed to chemicals. The Environmental Prosecutor’s Office carried out an investigation and established that vegetables are still cultivated on four out of six land plots classified unsuitable for cultivation, and that not all court judgments are enforced.