Ecological meeting in Mariupol

In Mariupol, Donetsk region, the most numeral meeting in the history of the city was held on November 4th, 2012. Terrible smell from Mariupol factories and regular smog in the city were the reasons of this ecological meeting. More than 5 thousands people were present on ecological meeting, which was organized by different public activists. As public acrivists told on the meeting, Mariupol bureaucrats intimidate the citizens, forcing them to be silent and not to protest because of possible losting of their job at city's metallurgical factories, which soil the air the most. Mariupol factory "Azovstal" ("Azovsteel"), one of the factories of "Metinvest Holding" of Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, is the biggest source of the soiling in the city. And Mariupol Metallurgical Factory named after Illich is the biggest metallurgical enterprise of Ukraine and also belongs to Akhmetov's "Metinvest Holding" since July, 2010. "Azovsteel" is equiped with cleaning filters only on 43% and Mariupol Metallurgical Factory named after Illich is equiped with such filters on 63%, so You can just imagine how much Mariupol air is gassed.
Organizers of ecological meeting composed the resolution and thousands of the people signed it after the finishing of the meeting. Mariupol citizens appealed to Government of Ukraine with the request to recognize Mariupol the city of ecological disaster and appealed to Mariupol mayor Yuriy Khotlubey with the request to fix a moratorium for the opening of new industrial enterprises and for the growing of present enterprises' capacities. Besides it the citizens of Mariupol decided to create an independent group of specialists, who will have a possibility to go at the metallurgical factories and can do necessary intentions there, when smog will appear in the city. Mariupol people also appealed in the resolution to "Metinvest Holding" with the request to settle the problem with the aglofactory of "Azovsteel", which soils the city very much. Another important request of the resolution was stopping of huge soiling of Azov sea by "Azovsteel". Because metallurgical factory "Azovsteel" uses 800 million cubic meters of Azov sea's water annualy and then throws down its sewage in Azov sea too. So the members of ecological meeting demanded in the resoultion to create closed circle of the water's using at "Azovsteel". Because Mariupol people, as all people around the world, want to live in clean city and to be healthy and to have healthy children, but such catastrophical ecological situation doesn't give it for them.
Simultaneously, the owner of "Metinvest" Rinat Akhmetov is № 38 in the new top-200 of the richest people in the world with his $18,9 billion of net worth according to such top-200 of Bloomberg agency, published in November, 2012.                    


p.s. The information was taken from the newspapers "Express" and "Newspaper in Ukrainian", and Bloomberg agency's site.