Gazprom Neft Volunteers and Residents of Yamal Collected More Than 625 Tons of Garbage on the Peninsula
Gazprom Neft summed up the results of its environmental project “Clean Environment” to clean up Yamal from historically accumulated and household waste. From April to September, more than 4.5 thousand volunteers – company employees, representatives of the public environmental organization “Green Arctic”, local residents – collected more than 625 tons of garbage in different areas of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on an area of over 460 hectares, including coastal zones.
Dozens of actions of the “Clean Environment” project included volunteer trips to clean up remote northern territories, cleanup days to eliminate spontaneous landfills and household waste in populated areas, and educational master classes for children and adults. Nine Gazprom Neft enterprises took part in the company’s project, which is being implemented as part of the “Native Towns” social investment program.
For partner events, Gazprom Neft provided transport and equipment for loading and removing waste. Green Arctic volunteers, with the support of Gazprom Neft, conducted three expeditions to clean up historically accumulated garbage in the vicinity of the village of Cape Kamenny, Cape Marre-Sale and the village of Polyarny. 2,200 rusty barrels were collected, 13 abandoned buildings were dismantled, and 20 hectares of the coastline of the Ob and Baydaratskaya bays of the Kara Sea were cleaned.
“Yamal has extensive experience in environmental projects to clean up Arctic territories. Together with volunteers and with the support of our friends – companies in the oil and gas sector, we have returned their original appearance to the Bely and Vilkitsky islands, and continue general cleaning in remote areas. I am glad that every year the number of environmental There are more and more projects and people involved in them. The initiatives of the Year of Ecology, which we held last year, continue today. The topic of ecology and cleanliness of their native land is close to northerners. We see the development of environmental culture among residents of cities and small towns. Such a large-scale contribution of caring people to our common cause leads to large-scale changes – clean shores, forests and tundra, where a new life begins for the Arctic nature.” – Dmitry Artyukhov – Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
“The amazing and unique nature of the Arctic makes a truly strong impression. But even more amazing are the people who take care of it for free. It is with their small steps that big changes for the better begin. This year, as part of the “Clean Environment” project, we managed to unite there are a lot of caring people – Gazprom Neft employees, volunteers from local residents and environmental organizations. Together, we implemented more than 140 environmental initiatives during the summer season.” – Yarina Sugakova – Director of the “Hometowns” social investment program of the Gazprom Neft company.
