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Environmental Science & Technology 2018 Journal of Environmental Research
Page 29
March 29-31, 2018
Vienna, Austria
4th Edition of International Conference on
Environmental Science
& Technology 2018
T his paper examines the current situation of land remediation
after mining operations in the Kyrgyz Republic. It focuses
on the legal and political frameworks for land remediation. The
question of the remediation has not gained much academic
attention in the Kyrgyz Republic, especially as it is related to
remediation policies, but this matter is urgent in the country. As
part of the former Soviet Union, the mining industry was of great
importance in the Kyrgyz Republic. According to the National
Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan, the mining industry of the
Kyrgyz Republic in 2014 had an indicator of more than 53.9% of
the value of all industrial products, while the share of the mining
industry in GDP in 2014 was more than 10%, which in turn is
47.1% of total exports and 11% of tax revenues. According to
official data, there are deposits of gold, antimony, mercury, tin,
molybdenum, coal and brown coal, oil and gas, non-metallic
minerals, groundwater and other minerals in Kyrgyzstan. In the
last twenty years, discoveries of large gold deposits and other
valuable minerals in the last twenty years brought Canadian and
other international corporations to exploit. As a result, many
pollution cases have been reported along with violent protests
among local residents. There are many unresolved and partially
resolved issues on disposal, reclamation of disturbed lands after
mining, including radioactive waste. The Kyrgyz government has
updated some strategies to deal with conflicts and remediation
issues. This paper reveals some recent development of legal and
political actions to deal with land degradation and remediation.
Biography
Gulzhan Makhmudova has completed her Bachelor’s degree and Honors
Diploma majored in Ecology-Legal Protection in International University of
Kyrgyzstan. After that, she proceeded to the Master’s degree in International
Law and European Law for two years. At the same time, she also worked
at State Agency on Environment Protection and Forestry under the Gov-
ernment of the Kyrgyz Republic as a Specialist. Following graduation, she
started to work at The State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use
of the Kyrgyz Republic as Leading Specialist, and awarded rank of Junior In-
spector of Public Service, where she works to present time. She has a great
passion about environment. That’s why she chose to pursue further educa-
tion at Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of
Tsukuba to broaden her horizon. Her field of interest’s Environmental Re-
mediation inMining, Environmental Policy andManagement, Environmental
Protection and Legislation, Industrial Safety in Mining Industries.
Remediation policy after mining works in the Kyrgyz Republic
Gulzhan Makhmudova and Kenichi Matsui
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Gulzhan Makhmudova et al., J Environ Res, Volume 2