Abstract
Energy Strategy of Russia for the period until 2035 contains a note that Russian Energy Industry is one of the main sources of environmental pollution. More than 50 per cent of polluted matter emissions into the atmosphere, more than 20 per cent of dirty discharge into surface water reservoirs and more than 70 per cent of total emissions of greenhouse gases account for this industry. Issues of environmental safety of the subsoil use are always under consideration in the academic community. However, huge amount of problems concerning this area still remain unresolved. For instance, bankrupt subsoil users often do not satisfy requirements set by the government on mothballing or removing facilities aimed at development or reclamation of used land parcels when the land leasehold is over. This indicates the need to enshrine additional measures in the Russian legislation on ensuring compliance with certain requirements. The authors mention that providing the regeneration of raw material base and its reasonable using for the benefit of current and next generations of nations inhabiting the Russian Federation are among the primary tasks of governmental regulation of relations on the subsoil use. The government should ensure the most efficient and consistent usage of resources obtained from already provided land parcels, complete development of mineral deposits and compliance with appropriate terms of subsoil use.
Highlights
The subject of the study is public relations regarding development of subsoil sites, placing, construction, mothballing and removing of facilities and assignment of rights for them
The main objective of the study is the scientific assessment of gaps in legal regulation of relations regarding the subsoil use during the assignment of rights for facilities, of ways to ensure the fulfillment of obligations on the mothballing and removal of facilities by subsoil users, reclamation of used land parcels when the right to use subsoil is over, of legal mechanisms to ensure the safety of removed underground facilities
In order to create conditions for the rational use and protection of subsoils and environment in general, the legislation of the Russian Federation should use a uniform concept of facilities for developing subsoil sites, which being placed, constructed, operated, maintained and removed imply special requirements in subsoil legislation
Summary
The subject of the study is public relations regarding development of subsoil sites, placing, construction, mothballing and removing of facilities and assignment of rights for them. The aim of the study is to elaborate theoretical provisions and practical recommendations for improving the legal regulation of public relations regarding development of subsoil sites. Some authors have considered in their scientific researches certain issues of ensuring the fulfillment of obligations for mothballing and removal of facilities by subsoil users, as well as reclamation of land parcels [1-6]. The requirements imposed by the legislation of the Russian Federation to the preparatory stage of placing and constructing facilities are investigated in previous works of the authors of the present paper [7-13]
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