Today, in the Ulytau region in Zhezkazgan, a meeting was held with the population, representatives of the public, non-profit organizations of the Ulytau region, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan E. Nysanbayev.
During the meeting, activists of the region raised various environmental issues (emissions into the atmosphere, CBS, CHP, untimely garbage collection, etc.), issues of the Zhezkazgan Botanical Garden, etc.
In his Message to the People of Kazakhstan, the Head of State paid special attention to the issues of ecology and sustainable development. One of the key aspects was the topic of installing an automated monitoring system.
In the Ulytau region, 5 enterprises should install this system ("Kazakhmys Smelting", "Zhairem Mining and Processing Plant", "Kazakhmys Energy", "Zhezkazgan Enterprise of Heat Supply and Water Supply") and "Kazakhmys Distribution"), of which 4 have already done so. Of the 4, 2 enterprises are connected to the information system ("Kazakhmys Smelting", "Zhairem Mining and Processing Plant"), "Kazakhmys Distribution" the enterprise will be fully commissioned by the end of the year. And currently, the Kazakhmys Energy enterprise (Kazakmys Energy) is operating in a test mode.
In the period from 2021 to 2023 and in the spring of this year, a total of 970.8 million seedlings were planted throughout the republic, including 3.1 million seedlings were planted in the Ulytau region according to the plan.
To complete the task, a permanent nursery with an area of 70 hectares is being built in the Zhanaarka forestry, designed to grow about 1 million 300 thousand seedlings per year.
In order to monitor compliance with environmental legislation, the inspection service conducted 11 inspections in 2023.
According to the results of the inspections, 26 violations were revealed, for which 26 orders were issued to eliminate them.
28 administrative fines totaling 24 million tenge were imposed and fully recovered.
In 10 months of this year, 11 inspections were carried out. As a result, 58 administrative fines totaling 3.3 billion tenge were imposed, 62 administrative fines totaling 66 million tenge were voluntarily collected.
At a meeting with the population, the Minister noted that, from January 1, 2025, the mandatory introduction of integrated environmental permits is provided, that is, the use of the best available technologies (BAT) for new large enterprises of the 1st category. In general, two large enterprises in the region — Kazakhmys Corporation and Kazakhmys Smelting company should install BAT on time.
The introduction of BAT, according to the reference books, will have a beneficial effect on the state of the environment.
The main problem of waste management is a poorly developed waste management infrastructure, non-compliance of landfills with standards, a significant number of unauthorized landfills.
To date, waste management programs in the region have not been fully approved. In general, 3 out of 5 cities and districts have been approved, and approval works are underway in the remaining 2 districts.
In the first half of 2024, the volume of solid household waste generated in the Ulytau region amounted to 60 thousand tons, and today the share of recycled or sorted solid household waste in the region is 0 percent.
Of the 34 MSW facilities, only 2 meet environmental and sanitary requirements.
133 illegal landfills have been identified in the region, but none of them has been eliminated so far. For the untimely liquidation of unauthorized landfills, the head of the housing and Communal Services department of the city of Zhezkazgan was fined 369,200 tenge in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 344 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (August 13, 2024).
A personal reception of citizens and a briefing with representatives of the regional media were also held.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/ecogeo/press/news/details/893551