"Breathe, people." Belgorod residents' complaints about dust from the cement plant have become daily.
"Cement hangs over the city like a black layer. I've lived in the city my whole life. But this is the first time I've seen anything like this. How long are they going to keep telling us about steam and waiting for the maximum permissible concentration to be reached?" "Dirt over the city. They say it's steam. Breathe, people." - hundreds of similar comments began to appearto eat on social networks daily. Belgorod residents "sin" on Belgorod Cement CJSC on Sumskaya Street, the dust from which settles on windows and cars for many kilometers around.
Judging by the complaints of Belgorod residents, they have always smelled dust from the cement plant, but since June 2022, emissions make an effortwere leaked.
That year the Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov partially agreed with the existence of the problem: “I recently returned from the Luhansk region. I arrived in the evening, and of course, I thought something had happened again. Thank God, no, it was smoke. That's why a commission is working now. We'll report all the results of the investigation next week. We're doing a thorough investigation."
The inspection revealed nothing, and the plant's management denies the fact of cement dust emissions.
"There are emissions at the cement plant, but they're all within the standard, as confirmed by Rospotrebnadzor tests and the laboratory—nothing exceeds the standard. The emissions you see are steam," explainNile General director Eduard Androsov a year ago. This September he completely saidthat the cars with a gray coating in the photographs simply haven't been washed for a long time.
Journalists of "Belgorod No. 1" independently aboutorganized Analysis of "steam" and "dirt" deposited on cars. The laboratory proved that the chemical composition of the dust by 80% The chemical composition is similar to that of construction clinker (a product of high-temperature firing – note B1). Clinker is the main component of the cement produced by the plant.
Along with calls to oblige the cement plant to install new treatment facilities, some Belgorod residents require from the dissatisfied to "calm down" and move to the village.
Photo: Belgorod No. 1