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Energy Ministry and Environmental Protection Ministry work - insufficient for solution of environmental problems of Caspian Sea

The work of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Environmental Protection in regards to solution of the environmental problems of the Caspian Sea does not correspond to the modern requirements.

Aktau. October 26. Kazakhstan Today - The work of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Environmental Protection in regards to solution of the environmental problems of the Caspian Sea does not correspond to the modern requirements. The akim of the Mangistau area, Krymbek Kusherbayev, said at the I International Scientifically Practical Conference on the Problems of Control of Ecological Condition of the Caspian Sea taken place the day before in Aktau, the agency reports.

"The work in this direction in all Caspian littoral has been carried out, but the measures undertaken by the authorized bodies - the Ministries of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Ministries of Environmental Protection do not correspond to the modern requirements," K. Kusherbayev said.

He said that about 90 oil and gas wells in the emergency condition have remained in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea, causing serious ecological harm to the environment.

K. Kusherbayev has suggested that the central office of the People's Democratic Party Nur Otan along with the deputies of Parliament of Kazakhstan organize parliamentary hearing on the environmental problems of the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea with participation of all interested parties.

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