俄羅斯反對在西伯利亞建造巨型水力發電廠的請願書在本週呈交至俄羅斯總理普丁（Vladimir Putin）的手上；各界評論表示建造水力發電廠將會威脅原住民的生存，以及影響整個落葉松林的自然生態。
該請願書經過超過8000人的簽署同意，並且由俄羅斯世界自然基金會（WWF-Russia）、俄羅斯綠色和平組織（Greenpeace-Russia）、俄羅斯北部原住民協會（Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North）以及其他非政府組織共同組織發起並呈交普丁的手上。
根據評估資料顯示，這個預計在埃文（Evenk）市區進行的建設計畫將可能導致高達2000名的埃文市民必須被迫搬離家園和他們的馴鹿牧場，而且將有一百萬公頃的落葉松林將就此被淹沒。
為了水力發電，必須在下通古斯河（Lower Tunguska River）建造一座大水庫。為此，各環保以及原住民團體紛紛提出警告：「如此一來，在通古斯河沖積平原約有三分之一的放射性地下核爆地區將因為開發造庫而被淹沒。」
俄羅斯工程人員表示，埃文水力發電廠未來將是俄羅斯最大的水力發電廠，發電量可達20,000百萬瓦特，其也將世界上最大的水力發電廠之一，而水庫建設預計需要18年的時間才能完成。
在1998年，前蘇聯（Soviet Union）政府取消了在相同地點建造水庫的計畫，在這之後，蘇維埃國家主席戈巴契夫（Mikhail Gorbachev）也曾對這個建造巨型水力發電廠的政策提出質疑。
俄羅斯綠色和平組織成員克雷因德林（Mikhail Kreindlin）表示，因為會對環境及經濟的審查造成嚴重的後果，因此之前在土魯罕斯克（Turukhansk）以及現在在埃文於80年代有關建造水力發電廠的計畫都遭到否決。
他說，現在這個計劃如果再次復活則表示我們將回到前蘇聯行政指揮體系時的可怕時期。
然而，支持這項計畫的俄羅斯Hydro-OGK水力公司卻表示，發電廠對於振興該地區的經濟發展而言是必須的。
Hydro-OGK水力公司理事會成員卡茲阿克曼托夫（Rasim Khaziakhmetov）去年即向自由歐洲電台（Radio-Free Europe）表示，「現在我們已經落後其他已開發國家太多了。俄羅斯目前僅開發了20%的水力發電潛能，然而巴西開發了100%、挪威開發了100%、美國也幾乎開發了100%，也就是說，在已開發的國家當中，俄羅斯是為一一個尚未完全開發全部發電潛能的國家。」
A petition against the construction of a giant hydroelectric power station in Siberia that critics say would threaten the indigenous population and an entire larch forest ecosystem was handed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week.
Signed by more than 8,000 people, the petition was organized and presented to Putin by WWF-Russia, Greenpeace-Russia, and the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North as well as other nongovernmental organizations.
The construction project, in the Evenk municipal district, could drive as many as 2,000 Evenki out of their homes and reindeer pasture lands and, according to the evaluation data, one million hectares of unique larch forest would be flooded.
To generate power, a dam would be constructed on the Lower Tunguska River. The environmental and indigenous groups warn that one of the three radioactive underground nuclear explosion areas in the Tunguska flood plain would be flooded as a result of the construction.
Russian engineers say the Evenk hydroelectric power station would be the largest in Russia, and with the project capacity of 20,000 megawatts, one of the largest in the world. The construction is expected to take 18 years to complete.
In 1988, the Soviet Union canceled plans to construct a dam at the same site after then Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev questioned the policy of building giant hydro-power stations.
"The building of the Turukhansk, now Evenk, hydropower station was rejected at the end of the '80s because of the results of serious environmental and economic examinations," said Mikhail Kreindlin of Greenpeace-Russia.
"The revival of this project will mean a return to the most dreadful times in the ex-USSR administrative command system," he said.
Hydro-OGK, the Russian hydroelectric power company behind the project, says the power station is needed for economic development in the region.
"Today we lag far behind other developed countries," Rasim Khaziakhmetov, a member of Hydro-OGK's executive board, told Radio-Free Europe last year. "Russia realizes only about 20 percent of its hydroelectric power potential; Britain realizes 100 percent; Norway realizes 100 percent; the United States realizes almost 100 percent. That's to say that among developed countries, Russia is about the only one not realizing its full capacity."
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