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Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill

posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the Making-an-ecological-mess dept.

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Russia says 'years' needed to clean up Arctic spill:

Russian investigators on Wednesday detained three staff of a power plant over a huge fuel spill in the Arctic, as response teams warned a full clean-up would take years.

The spill of over 21,000 tonnes of fuel took place after a fuel reservoir collapsed last month at a power plant operated by a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel in the city of Norilsk.

It is the largest ever to have hit the Arctic, say environmentalists.

Those working at the site have already seen the first effects of the spill on the local ecosystem, said Viktor Bronnikov, general director of Transneft Siberia oil and gas transportation company involved in the clean-up.

They included dead muskrats and ducks, he said.

The Investigative Committee looking into the accident said it had detained the director of the power station, Pavel Smirnov, and two engineers on suspicion of breaching environmental protection rules.

If convicted, they would risk up to five years in prison.

"The company considers this measure to be unjustifiably harsh," Norilsk Nickel said in a statement to AFP, citing vice-president Nikolai Utkin.

All three "are cooperating with law enforcement authorities and now they would be much more useful at the scene of the clean-up operation", he added.

[...] The metals giant has said the accident could have been caused by global warming thawing the permafrost under the fuel reservoir.

It has acknowledged it did not specifically monitor the condition of permafrost at its sites in the past and said it would do a full audit shortly.

The massive clean-up involves nearly 700 people, according to the emergencies ministry.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Pav on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:10PM (4 children)

    by Pav (114) on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:10PM (#1007779)

    Nadezhda Tolokonnikova [wikipedia.org] from Pussy Riot [wikipedia.org] is from Norilsk. She did an interview [youtube.com] (38 minutes in) with Rolling Stone's "Useful Idiots" political commentary program, part of which goes into how much of a poluted crappy place Norilsk is when things are "normal".

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:22PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:22PM (#1007840)

    i'd like to riot in her pussy. just sayin'

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:23PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:23PM (#1007899)

      Wiki reports that she's pansexual - so good luck with stopping your head asploding from heterosexual white male outrage before you unbunch your tighty whities.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:04AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:04AM (#1007940)

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Tolokonnikova#cite_note-59 [wikipedia.org]

        I can deal with that.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @06:00PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @06:00PM (#1008233)

        I didn't say i wanted to conk her over the head and take her home to have kids, ffs. Just riot in her wonderful Russian pussy.