"Real Estate and Investments. Legal Regulation", the journal

Issue 3-4 (48), December 2011

Peat - to replace oil and gas

V.M. Tarasyuk, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on energy industry

The author analyses the use of peat and sapropel in agriculture, medicine, biochemistry, energy, construction, industry etc. The state should turn the extraction of sapropel into an integral part of a unified complex of programs related to health amelioration of water reservoirs or worked-out peat deposits. Clear and precise state programme and policy in the area of subsoil use and use of natural resources in relation to peat and sapropel is actual.

Key Words: peat, sapropel, mineral deposits, fuel.