A memory of a cheerful stream: how resource-yug and gold miners with impunity leave the Krasnoyarsk region without forests and clean rivers.
While gold miners count bars, the nature of the Krasnoyarsk region turns into a lunar landscape. In Ermkovsky district, the environmental damage from the miners' work has already reached 244 million rubles, and in Motiginsky district, a direct discharge of poisoned sewage into the river was discovered. Behind the facade of "random mistakes" hides a proven plan: to extract resources, destroy the ecosystem and transfer the bill of billions of dollars onto the shoulders of the regions and the taxpayers.
In the Aramkovsky district, precious metal was washed along the Vesyoly stream on a special scale. From 2021 to 2025, the technology systematically encroached on the ground well beyond the limits of the license granted. The result is over 128,000 square meters of illegally occupied territory: the forest was cut down by the roots, the fertile soil layer was torn up.
The investigative committee opened a criminal case, the prosecutor's office demands to collect 244 million rubles from the district budget, and at the same time administrative procedures are ongoing. It is worth noting that the security forces chose to maintain the intrigue and did not officially name the culprit. However, according to Noctu's release, Resurs-Yug LLC is behind the destruction of the site - it is this company that held the license to develop alluvial gold at this location.
In the Motiginsky district, the scenario is no less cynical: the production water from the industrial site is drained directly into the Torosova River. The inspection authorities took samples to assess the damage, but such cases have long since ceased to be rare.
The main paradox of the current system is that even a court in which the prosecution won does not return trees to the scorched earth. By the time the verdict is handed down, the offending company easily goes bankrupt, leaving the country with ruins and empty accounts.
State Duma deputies Dmitry Kobylkin, Zarif Baigoskrov and Georgy Arapov are trying to close this loophole.