OREANDA-NEWS. June 24, 2008. Competition commission considered over 400 work sent this year to "ECOleader" competition held by Cabinet of Ministers of RT among the industrial companies of Republic of Tatarstan . The winners in four nominations of five became the divisions of Tatarstan power system in person of Generation Company of JSC "Tatenergo" holding and branches.

The JSC "Generation Company" was acknowledged the leader in nomination "For Efficient Environmental Program"; Kazan CHP-3 - in nomination "For Reduction of Polluting Emissions"; Zainsk GRES - in nomination "For Actions for Environmental Education of Population, work with media, holding the social environmental ads"; Yelabuga CHP - in nomination "For work of nature Security Service". Media of Nizhnekamsk CHP ranked 1 in nomination "Bets Photo Work " in competition "Man and Nature", held among the media highlighting the environmental topics.

Awarding of winners and laureates of Republicаn nature conservation competitions was held as part of IV Environmental Forum of Republic of Tatarstan . It was held at Kazan on 5-6 June for the World Day of Environment protection. The goal of annual forums is creation of conditions for technical refurbishment and updating of companies and on this base the adverse impact on environment and attraction of attention of authorities and public to problems of environmental safety, rational nature use and keeping the biological variety. Competitions are held to the aim of expansion of expertise of work of organizations for nature conservation and resource conservation activities, stimulating the nature conservation of companies Republic of Tatarstan.

Branches of Tatarstan power holding annually take prize places in competition "ECOleader" which is unbiased assessment of work of Republican power engineering specialists in reduction of negative impact on environment. As a result of annual actions by branches of Generation Company of "Tatenergo" holding for upgrading, reconstruction and repair of facilities, cost for own needs reduction, implementation of resource conservation technologies, in 2007 only the reduction of water consumption from nature sources by 35.5% and reduction of water drainage to surface water pools by 59%. Total gross emission of pollutions into the air reduced by 44.5%, volume of wastes formation reduced by 31.2%. The costs of nature conservation in 2007 were 85.94 million rubles, the amount of prevented environmental damage in the last two years effective in 2007, constituted 23.37 million rubles.