Financial police checked Bishkek CHPP filters, emissions 3 times higher: PM

AKIPRESS.COM - Financial police checked filters of Bishkek CHPP for emissions, and it turned out the emissions were 3 times higher than the norm, said acting Prime Minister Artem Novikov on January 8 at a meeting on the smog issue in Bishkek. Novikov sees a way out of the problem in the CHPPs' transition from using coal to gas.
"Negotiations of the gas price are under way with the Gazprom. Gas might stop CHPP from being one of the city's pollution factors. It's a budget issue though," he said.
Only 4 points of the plan on improving environmental situation were fulfilled last year, he said.
"The new plan will be finalized and adopted," he said.