The damage from the fuel spill in Norilsk was estimated at 148 billion rubles

Rosprirodnadzor assessed the damage to the environment caused by the fuel spill in Norilsk, almost 148 billion roubles, informed the Ministry on its Internet representation.

Thus, "Norilsk-Taimyr energy organization" put in a request to voluntarily compensate the damage which the incident caused to water resources, in the amount of 147 046 011, 000 and soils - 738 616 five hundred rubles.

As said the head of the Ministry of natural resources and ecology Dmitry Kobylkin, the accident caused "unprecedented damage" to the Arctic, and the sum corresponds to it.

Shares of "Norilsk Nickel" on the capital exchange started to decline rapidly after the application of Rosprirodnadzor. As of 18: 09 GMT the paper fell by 3 2 percent, although before the publication up 1, 2 percent.

at the end of may in Norilsk CHP-owned organization " Norilsk Nickel ", was leaked allegedly of 21 thousand cubic meters of diesel fuel because of the sudden subsidence of the supports of the tank Foundation. Part of oil products caught in the local Creek and river Barn. The area of contamination was 180 thousand square meters.

within Krasnoyarsk Krai imposed a state of emergency at the Federal level.

According to Norilsk Nickel, to the disaster led warming in the permafrost, which shifted the supports under the fuel tanks.

in the case of detention of a number of Directors and employees of the CHP, with respect to the head of the city of Norilsk Rinat Ahmetshin opened a case of negligence.

MOE was alerted to the localization of the spilled fuel.



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