Oil spill

In the shallow Ob channel in the Kolyvansky district of the Novosibirsk region, rescuers began to eliminate the consequences of an oil spill on an area of about 100 square meters.

The source of pollution from the leakage of oil products in the Avacha Bay in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has not yet been identified.

The Krasnoyarsk environmental prosecutor's office began checking after it discovered a slick of oil up to 1.5 kilometers long on the Yenisei.

Scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, based on the analysis of satellite images, found that the real area of the oil spill in the Black Sea near Novorossiysk is 400 thousand times larger than reported.

In the water area of the port of Nakhodka, Primorsky Territory, an oily waste spill occurred, presumably dumped from a foreign vessel. The specialist started to eliminate pollution in the bay.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the prosecutor's office of the city of Norilsk has begun an investigation into the spill of oil products on the Norilsk-Kayerkan highway.

After a leak from the Okha-Komsomolsk-on-Amur pipeline, oil products got into Lake Goloye. The Investigative Committee has begun verification.

A criminal case has been opened against unidentified employees of Nornickel and JSC Mechanobringineering on the fact of discharge of untreated sewage from the Talnakh enrichment plant into the Tomuli river. The damage amounted to 154 million rubles.