MOSCOW. Feb 16 (Interfax) - The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in the development of the emergency-rescue infrastructure in the Arctic should more actively interact with the large companies operating in this region such as Novatek and Rosneft to save public funds, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"At the same time, I am drawing your attention to the fact that in this work there is a need for more active interaction with large companies, which have hydrocarbon extraction and processing facilities located in the Arctic, such as Novatek and Rosneft," he said at an Emergency Situations Ministry board meeting.
"All these things will help use public funding more effectively," he said.
There are plans to allocate more than 18 billion rubles from the budget for the creation of such an infrastructure, in particular, to buy modern Arctic-version helicopters for the Emergency Situations Ministry, he said.
Acting Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Chupriyan said the Emergency Situations Ministry is actively interacting with businesses on the issue of creation of the Arctic infrastructure.
"Joint work has been organized with large companies operating in the Arctic region (Novatek, Rosneft) on the issue of their involvement in the creation for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry of emergency-rescue infrastructure facilities. Issues are being discussed relating to the placement of Arctic centers on the existing gas distribution cluster facilities in Sabetta, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, and also the creation of the emergency-rescue infrastructure on oil extraction facilities in the Sever Bay area. The active stage of the construction of the Arctic complex center in Pevek began under the Arctic Rescue Technologies project in January 2022. It is expected to be put into operation by 2024," he said.
The implementation of these projects will cover the Northern Sea Route and critical infrastructure facilities in this area with professional emergency-rescue units and reinforced units of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's Arctic aviation.
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