Slonim: felling of the trees is explained by their being dangerous
Slonim resident Ivan
Sheha received a response from the Hrodna Regional Committee for
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, signed by the head of
the committee I. Shmakau to a collective complaint of the Slonim
residents in connection with the destruction of a forest in Voikau
Street in the Albiartsin suburb.
According to the reply, ten
hundred-year-old pine trees in the green zone have been cut down and
eliminated due to the fact that they were found to be dangerous
according to the act of the Slonim Forestry from 4 July 2013.The
recognition of the pines as “dangerous” was initiated by the
Slonim District
Executive Committee
who sent a letter of 2 April 2013 to the
Slonim forestry, as a result of which the
forestry determined ten dangerous pines in plot No.3 of square 156
and issued the permission for their felling to the public utilities,
which cut them down on 10-11 July 2013 and removed
the stumps. In this case, as it is written in
the answer, has been infringed nadglebavye live coverage, resulting
in damage to the environment. Accordingly, an
administrative lawsuit
has been filed against the public utilities. The Slonim forestry was
also submitted a letter with the demand of prior notification of
citizens and the Slonim city and district inspection about the
planned felling of
trees in the forest.
Commenting on the
letter, Ivan Sheha said: "It is quite a strange response,
especially in the part concerning the "dangerous trees".
What is their danger, and for whom were they dangerous? These were
powerful pines which would have stood for many decades! In our
neighborhood all the residents know that the trees have been
destroyed because it was necessary to pave the road to those houses
in Vaikou Street, located near the forest. And the road was needed
because the Slonim District Executive Committee allocated the site
for the construction of a private house just on the road, which
already existed, as a result of which the residents of the street
were deprived of the opportunity to drive up to their houses. The
destroyed trees prevented the construction of this road, and
therefore became "dangerous". This is the truth. And what
is written in the answer is a lie."
