Baikalsk Paper and Pulp Mill: Ecological Series
«For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo…». These Shakespearian lines are just asking to be used in lieu of the epigraph. The national vast expanses have not yet seen any other «longer-playing» and sadder story than the situation with the Baikal Paper and Pulp Mill (BPPM). It has been holding as «hostages» several generations of BPPM workers and inhabitants of the city of Baikalsk; many of them are not among the living already, and others have grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And this all has continued for more than 50 (!) years now. «Things havent budged an inch». The BPPM, as before, is in operation, discharging waste waters into Baikal and polluting the atmosphere along Baikals shores.