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Publish date: January 30, 2007
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According to the expert commission, the project corresponds with environmental legislation, but RosteckNadzor insists on working out a plan of oil spills prevention and liquidation, B-port.com reports.
Varandey terminal is located onshore of the Barents Sea in Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region. Temporary shipment complex is operating nowadays. The building of the complex was started in 1998. The complex consists of hydraulic power station, marine oil pipeline and onshore receiving terminal, which can store 65,000 cubic metres of oil.
The Varandey terminal is destined for raw oil export from fields of Timano-Pechora province.
Nowadays oil is transported by small shuttle tankers with 20,000 ton deadweight of. During five years of the Varandey terminal operation, about 90 oil shipments were implemented and 1.7 million tons of oil was shipped.
An accident aboard numerous Volgoneft oil tankers in the Kerch in mid December clearly show what can happen to aged ships when they are operated in bad weather—and when economic and military objectives are prioritized over the lives of crews and environmental safety.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.