Raman Kislyak: Pre-commissioning works are in progress at IPower plant

The plant's management violated the order of Brest regional executive committee to stop the construction.

The initiative group of the battery plant opponents demands absolute observance of the order of the Brest Regional Executive Committee to stop construction.

"IPower's management said at the briefings that the construction was finished a long time ago, and then there was some pre-commissioning work. But this is also construction, according to the law "On Architectural, Urban Planning and Construction Activities," – the human rights activist Raman Kisliak reports to Radiyo Racyja.

– Battery company IPauer makes a statement that construction is allegedly suspended. But they are carrying out startup and testing works. According to the law of the Republic of Belarus on architectural and town-planning activities, commissioning is a part of construction works. According to the order, all types of construction work, including commissioning, preparation of the facility for commissioning, should be stopped. Workers come to the plant in full, some liquid flows through the storm sewerage system, i.e. some processes are going on, and that is why the activists are indignant.

The activists try to convey their demands through mass media and Internet communication channels. They also address the relevant appeals to the controlling and governmental bodies.

- On 18 June we received a letter dated 13 June signed by the Deputy Chairman of Brest Regional Executive Committee Andrei Klets in response to our collective appeal. In this response, the regional executive committee informs us that according to the results of laboratory research, performed by the National Center for Analytical Control in the field of environmental protection, carried out at the request of the Brest Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, it was revealed that the allowable emissions of pollutants into the air exceeded the standards for eight sources, for substances: carbon monoxide, lead and its inorganic compounds, sulfuric acid, - the human rights activist Raman Kisliak quotes the answer.