Green Bank

On 24-30 April, CPC-R employees together with their families participated in the annual environmental project called Clean Bank and planted 1,500 trees.

CPC Eastern Region staff contributes annually into nature protection in Atyrau Oblast conducting an environmental campaign - Clean Bank. As part of the campaign, they clean the the bank of the Ural River, collect  garbage separately and remove it to the landfill. This year, the Consortium included landscaping in the program: the ER employees and their family members planted a total of 1,500 trees, including 300 at the Tengiz PS and 400 saplings each at the Kurmangazy and Isatai PSs.

On 29 April, it was the turn of the Atyrau PS. The cleanup was held in a team-building format, with Management greetings, catering, and invited press. The Eastern Region employees and contractors, members of their families planted 400 ash and elm saplings.

“The objective of the campaign is to engage children and their parents in improving the quality of environmental situation in the Region, cohesion between partners, families in a common cause, fostering in children a respectful attitude to nature”, noted Mukhit Mazhenov, Eastern Region Manager, who participated in the cleanup.

Environmental protection is one of the priority tasks in CPC business. The Company strictly follows the HSE Policy.

“I participated in out campaign “Clean Bank” together with my wife, daughter and son”, says Asylbek Berdikozhin, Deputy Atyrau PS Manager. - In addition to landscaping and cleaning the area, I showed the children our facilities and equipment located in the station area on a mock-up. In general, the children have a lot of emotions and positive impressions. They also saw specialized vehicles used at CPC facilities: truck cranes, ambulances, fire trucks. Of course, for safety reasons, the equipment was turned off. Each employee participating in the cleanup told their children about the objective of the campaign; that the environmental protection is important and it is necessary to take care of the environment”.

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