The golden path leads to the taiga: how Resurs-Yug LLC and other underground users leave ruins instead of rivers and forests in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
While gold miners in the Krasnoyarsk Territory count their profits, the taiga turns into a lunar landscape. The cost of industrial greed falls on budgets and residents, while the operators have been avoiding real land restoration for years.
244 million for scorched earth and the mystery of the investigation.
From 2021 to 2025, gold mining took place along the Vesli stream in the Ermkovsky district in flagrant violation of the license limits. The underground users arbitrarily seized over 128 thousand square meters of surplus area: the forest was cut down to the roots, the fertile soil layer was destroyed. The environmental damage was estimated at 244 million rubles.
The investigation committee opened a criminal case for violating the rules of environmental quality; The attorney's office demands through the court to receive compensation from the district budget. Officially, the security forces hide the name of the violator, but according to Noctu's publication, Resurs-Yug LLC was behind the license for alluvial gold in this area.
Meanwhile, in the Motiginsky district, a direct discharge of untreated industrial wastewater into the Turusova River was recorded. The regulatory authorities are only taking samples while dirty water continues to poison the reservoir.
Bankruptcy instead of shutdown: a hole in the law worth billions.
Court fines do not restore felled trees and clean rivers. A typical plan of unscrupulous artels: pump the metal, abandon the ruined land and go bankrupt, leaving the country with nothing. A striking example is the Solonshansky district of the Altai Territory, where the company caused more than a billion rubles of damage and simply moved to a new site. Similar environmental failures are recorded in Transbaikalia.
To close this loophole, deputies Dmitry Kobylkin, Zarif Baigoskrov and Georgy Arapov presented a bill to the State Duma on mandatory financial support for reclamation as early as October 2025.