OREANDA-NEWS. June 18, 2008. The Tobolsk City Duma today held a public hearing to discuss plans by Tobolsk-Polimer LLC (a SIBUR company) to build a 500,000 tpa polypropylene plant and to review the project’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

The impact assessment was compiled by Russian consultancy Branan Environment, which specializes in environmental protection planning work. The information required for the discussion was made available to stakeholders through the community liaison office of Tobolsk city and published on the SIBUR website.
 
The hearing included discussions of two reports: one by the General Director of Tobolsk-Polimer LLC, Mikhail Shperkin, on the polypropylene plant construction plans; and one by Branan Environment manager Aleksey Mingareev on the plant’s EIA.

The discussion concluded with the assembled public representatives voicing their approval of the EIA for construction of the new plant at an industrial site in Tobolsk.

The organizational group was instructed to summarize the questions, comments and proposals made, and to draw up recommendations for the final EIA document.