Subsoil — latest ecology news
The former director of one of the branches of ‘Forests of Ukraine’ has been charged with negligence, which led to 226 hectares of state-owned forest becoming ‘Medvedchuk’s holiday home’
The agency had already been refused in April, but resubmitted the same proposal
Those involved in the scheme laundered illegally extracted minerals through companies under their control
An unauthorised rubbish tip on land belonging to ‘Ukrzaliznytsia’ has cost the state nearly 86 million hryvnias
Separately, prosecutors are attempting to return land belonging to the water, forestry and nature reserve funds to the state
In two instances, business owners felled thousands of trees on leased land without permission
The case files now comprise 74 volumes
Specifically, in the Kharkiv region, authorities are seeking to impose a fine of over 100 million hryvnias on a company for the illegal extraction of loam and clay
Residents complained about the logging of healthy forests and the loss of drinking water in the community
The most costly crime uncovered this week was the illegal extraction of sand, amounting to nearly 750 million hryvnias
Illegal logging, mineral extraction, and water pollution are the most costly to the environment
Sand was extracted not at a single site, but at six locations at once