Dmitry Puliayevsky, Head of Administration of Sosnovy Bor municipal district

— The population is fully satisfied with the information they heard

On Feb 7 Sosnovy Bor (satellite-town of Leningrad NPP) hosted public hearings of the materials on the possible impacts of the LNPP-2 project on the environment of the region. Over 800 people attended the hearings: residents of Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad region and St. Petersburg, politicians, public figures, journalists, deputies, state and municipal officials, directors of companies and even US, Finnish, Swedish and Estonian diplomats. A number of experts have commended on the results of the hearings and the prospects of energy development in the North-Western region.

We are very much satisfied with the results of the hearings and believe that all the tasks have been fulfilled.

Dozens of questions have been received. We have sorted them out and are preparing a protocol with enclosed questions. The protocol will be sent to Rosenergoatom for further work.

This protocol will become a basis for the preparations for the state ecological examination. The key result of the hearings is that all the questions asked by residents and public organizations have been collected and will be used for the state ecological examination.

The range of the questions is very wide. Most of them had nothing to do with the assessment. But we still accepted them.

We also received questions from foreign organizations and, particularly, from the diplomats that were present at the hearings: the representatives of the consulates of Finland, Sweden, Estonia and the representative of the US Embassy. I spoke with them and they confirmed their interest in the project and said that they would like to be informed of its course and of all our problems.

In my opinion, the population is fully satisfied with the information they heard. The questions have confirmed that the population is interested in LNPP-2 and understand in what directions it will develop. People don’t worry. They perfectly know that there are some bottlenecks that should be overcome. On the whole, the population is benevolent towards the project.