OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2009. A trilateral working meeting on the management of the Lake Inari water regime between TGC-1’s managers, and engineers, and representatives of the Finland and Norway’s energy systems has been held in Inari village, Finland.

In his opening speech, Sergey Redkin, Deputy General Director for Development, wished the participants a successful and fruitful cooperation and said that “For fifty years, the three courtiers developed their cooperation, guided by the principles of honesty, responsibility, and mutual respect. Past experience makes it clear that the existing international team of professionals will be able to successfully complete any undertaking in the future.”

Apart from Sergey Redkin, the seminar was attended by Vladimir Budarin, Chief Engineer Adviser, Alexander Novikov, Chief Engineer of the Kolskiy Branch, and Pazskiye HEPP Cascade’s managers, including Igor Patsan, Director, and Nikolai Vorobyev, Chief Engineer.

During the meeting, the members of the trilateral Commission discussed and approved a programme of water release from Lake Inari for the second half 2009. It was agreed that the Finland’s representatives would prepare a water release schedule for the first half 2010 using the forecast for the rate of water inflow into Lake Inari, and Russian and Norwegian hydroelectric power plants’ equipment repair plans and would submit it for consideration to the workgroup. It was also decided that in order to reduce the period over which water is not released from Lake Inari, Russia and Norway would coordinate and synchronize their repair schedules.

At the end of the meeting, the workgroup scheduled the next commission’s meeting for 15-17 February 2010 and decided to convene it in Bodo, Norway.