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Publish date: March 31, 2006
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Regional Administration of Civil Defense Agency and Emergency Situations department can not estimate the exact amount of leakage, a size of polluted territory and the content of the liquid. The Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage has sampled the liquid and would announce the results later.
By preliminary estimations, about 10 tons of residual oil polluted the Yenisei River. Authorities of Krasnoyarsk started investigation of the accident. Environmentalists claim the accident is the biggest pollution for the recent years, Interfax reported. Inspectors of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage are searching for the company-polluter.
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.