Environmental duty on oil transit through the territory of Belarus will pay for the enterprise " Gomeltransneft Druzhba ", said Last news source in the oil industry. on the last working day of the week the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on the introduction of tax deductions on oil transit. As noted in the document, for the destruction of possible environmental impacts in case of accidents on the main oil pipeline or other unforeseen situations, with organizations engaged in transportation of oil, will be charged a fee on a profit of 50 %. at the end of April last year the system of trunk pipelines " Druzhba ", on which Russian oil via Belarus for export to the European Union, were contaminated by chlorides raw materials. Pumping had to be stopped, in full deliveries resumed on 1 July. upon investigation it turned out that the cause of PE steel roguish actions of employees of private organizations, not included in the structure of " Transneft ". More than ten people were involved. in early December, the 1st Vice-President of the state company Maxim Grishanin has said that Transneft to the beginning of the second half of 2020 will complete an assessment of their costs due to the conflict in the pipeline. According to the Ambassador of Belarus Vladimir Semashko, Minsk hoped to receive compensation in the amount of $ 70 million. <span style="color:darkgray