OREANDA-NEWS. February 09, 2012. Representatives of TATNEFT participated in the meeting of the Republic of Tatarstan's Ministry of Ecology Collegium, which was held at the IT- Park of Kazan, reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

The meeting organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was attended by Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Murad Kerimov, Adviser to the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, Svetlana Yurmanova, Director of the Department of the State Regulatory Policy in the field of environmental protection and ecological safety of the Natural Resources and Ecology Ministry of the Russian Federation, Fatikh Sibagatullin, State Duma Deputy, member of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Environmental Management and Ecology, as well as by senior officials of the Presidential Office of the Republic of Tatarstan, State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan, heads of ministries of the Republic of Tatarstan and federal bodies of executive power in the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of enterprises and organizations of the Republic as well as the community and media.

TATNEFT presented its expanded display of the Company's environmental activities at the exhibition, organized in the foyer of the IT-park. The display reflected the Company's environmental policy, its tasks and objectives in the field of industrial safety, occupational health and environment protection. The exhibition stands clearly demonstrated the activity of TATNEFT for the water resources protection and management and showed the results of the Company's operations in the area of waste handling and air protection. The unique environmental technologies presented by TANECO aroused special interest of the visitors.

Minister Artyom Sidorov noted in his report on the outcome of the Ministry's activity in 2011 and tasks for 2012, that the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources was implementing the Environmental Protection Program jointly with large industrial enterprises, including OAO TATNEFT and TANECO Complex. In his speech Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources set the task of further greening of the production sector, pointing out the "unprecedented environmental safety system of TANECO", in particular, the Complex treatment facilities, which occupied the area 8 times less than conventional ones providing for 80 percent return of recycled sewage wastes into the production.

Closing the meeting, Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister of the Republic, emphasized the effectiveness of the enterprises' activities of Tatarstan in the field of environmental protection.