The Embassy FOUND MONEY FOR THE FIRST of megaprojects.
With the deadlock was finally moved the project of the century Ural Industrial - Ural Polar in which Moscow officials flatly refused to believe. Moreover, as stated at the meeting in the Urals Tyumen deputy envoy Viktor Basargin, the developers of the project has already completed the first phase of its implementation. But most importantly - UFD lobbyists managed to release a draft of the first money from the federal budget.
So in a two-day trip to Yamal and Ugra Mr Basargin took the first investors are more optimistic. Details - in the article UralPolit.Ru.
Today, Vice Urals envoy Viktor Basargin gathered in Tyumen working group dealing with the development of the Ural Industrial - Ural Polar, presented in Chelyabinsk in May this year at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since then, the UFD was a lot of activities on the theme of this program. In particular, these issues were discussed at the meeting of the Council at the Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District, which took place on August 10.
The results of the implementation of decisions taken by this council and listened to today in Tyumen.
Recall that the main stakeholders in the project Ural Industrial are Yamal, Yugra, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk region. This year, these regions together with the Perm Region and the Komi Republic signed an agreement On cooperation in a comprehensive industrial development of Polar and Polar Urals based on advanced development of transport and energy infrastructure. The role of the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi autonomous district in the mega-project is to develop the fields Polar and Polar Urals and participation in the continuation of a transport corridor linking northern resource area UFD with industrial regions in the Middle and South Urals. In particular, along the eastern slope of the Ural mountains, from Ivdel (Sverdlovsk region) to Labytnangi (Yamal), plans to build railways and roads.
Its length is about 300 kilometers.
As you know, in Yugra and Yamal has enormous reserves not only hydrocarbons, but also a variety of solid minerals. First of all, it refers to ores of ferrous, non-ferrous, precious and rare metals, as well as non-metallic minerals, among which especially stand out: the vein quartz and rock crystal, brown and black coal, bentonite and kaolin clays, building materials and other useful resources. In the plains of the Khanty installed placer manifestations of titanium, zirconium, as well as deposits of quartz sand, diatomite, and other minerals.
Projected reserves of coal deposits in the Polar and Polar Urals are estimated at 21 billion tons of oil and condensate reserves - 38 billion tons of natural gas - at 43 trillion. cubic meters of iron ore - 3.9 billion tonnes of bauxite - 21.5 million tonnes of gold - a 1041 tonne of manganese ore - 47 million tons of chrome ore - 240 million tons of copper and zinc - to 16.2 million tons. According to the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the total cost of solid minerals, which may be involved in the economic turnover as a result of the development of Polar and Polar Urals, is about $ 200 billion. According to experts, these resources are not enough for a dozen years.
The appearance of the transport corridor will in a short time and in the right quantities to deliver high-quality raw materials for large-scale industrial enterprises in Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Perm, who today are forced to buy it at a high price abroad or from remote regions of Russia. And the Polar and Polar Urals, will create new enterprises that modern, environmentally sound technologies will develop new fields. Total cargo, transport corridor to the south, according to the technical and economic calculations, amount to an average of 20 million tons annually. In addition, the formation of a transport corridor, along with the decision of the main tasks can be involved in the economic turnover and a number of other essential resources. For example, only Yugra has reserves of standing timber in the amount of more than 3.2 billion cubic meters.
Experts believe that the project of developing a new territory will pay for itself in 4-5 years, in 15 years it will start to make profit.
All these details were announced by representatives of the embassy and the northern governors in Chelyabinsk. Moreover, were identified and concrete steps to implement the program, which are divided into three stages: the first - the intensification of exploration work to increase the volume and the range set by the balance of deposits, the second - a feasibility study for the project, and the third - the start of construction of transport infrastructure provided the project. However, in the Ural embassy put forward a number of conditions, without which the industrial project will not work: state involvement in the project, stable rules of the game on the market in the form of stability in the legislative area of the country, as well as security of property rights, transparency and openness in business.
However, at the same meeting in May, the initiatives Urals met a good deal of skepticism by federal officials, who called the program has not worked in terms of investment. Roughly speaking, the federal government is not completely satisfied with the situation in which he would have to spend more than one billion. After all, for example, only in the territory of Khanty-Mansiysk in the development of Polar Urals will need investments of $ 1.5 billion, including in the mining industry - $ 500 million in the development of transport networks - $ 1 billion.
Federal officials did not even impressed forecasts ideologues of the project, according to which an investment return of the mineral resources sector of Ural mountain when investing in it 1.5 billion dollars over 12 years is capable of commercial output in the order of 350-400 million dollars a year, and for the full period, the amount increased to $ 4.8 billion.
There was no unity in the ranks of the Urals themselves. If, for example, the leadership of the South Ural CMI from the very beginning supported the project (according to the chairman of the Board of Directors of MMC Rashnikova Victor, he is ready to invest in raw material deposits Polar and Polar Urals, from 1 to 2 billion dollars as only transportation of iron ore from the South Urals Kola Peninsula, it costs the company $ 700 million), the Sverdlovsk large industrial business showed no significant activity. In the regions themselves and did not hurry with the release of funds. So, in June, the government has not Khanty allocate 250 million rubles for the construction of the railway Ivdel - Labytnangi and conduct complex research to identify promising deposits of ore minerals, diamonds, oil and gas.
Deputy Prime Minister Khanty Vera Dyudina not agree with the draft, stating that a clear justification requested amount is not represented.
Looking at a pace of project preparation, as well as appealing to the position of federal officials, the skeptics became known as the Ural Industrial only as stillborn project. However, as it turned out at today#39;s meeting of the working group in Tyumen, put an end to the program is not necessary. According to deputy presidential envoy in the Urals Federal District Viktor Basargin in charge of the Ural Industrial - Ural Polar Ural specialists and experts have completed the theoretical work on the first part of the program, coupled with a more detailed study of the reserves of the Yamal and Ugra deposits of solid minerals, and the federal government has allocated for this purpose 1.5 billion rubles. In addition, the program further exploration in 2006 from the regional budgets Yamal, Ugra and the Tyumen region will be allocated 350 million rubles.
Already by September 20 UFD experts will present to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the necessary documentation for the Study of the Yamal and Ugra mineral resources and, in particular, exploration of solid minerals, which become raw materials for the project. Moreover, the experts of the working group decided to start the construction of railway line - in 2007. Funding it, according to Basargina, will be held in the framework of the program Cooperation, provided the agreement signed by the governors of Yamal, Khanty-Mansiysk and Tyumen region in the summer of 2004.
With regard to specific investors, it also outlined progress. So, tomorrow Viktor Basargin with Victor Rashnikovym a two-day trip in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Furthermore, as is well known, his support for the project Ural Industrial were of the leaders of the Russian railways, Yamal railway, energy companies in the face of KurganEnergo and ChelyabinskEnergo as well as foreign investors in the face of the Japanese members of the Association for Trade with Russia and Eastern Europe ROTOBO.
According to the embassy, foreigners, upon request, sent a package of documents relating to the project.
