The oil has reached the lake Piassino, carried by the river hit the end of may by a pollution unprecedented, according to the governor of the territory concerne
The oil has reached the lake Piassino, carried by the river hit the end of may by a pollution unprecedented, according to the governor of the territory concerned.
The ecological disaster continues in the Russian arctic. Hydrocarbons have reached a lake, which are carried by the river hit the end of may by a pollution unprecedented, said Tuesday the governor of the territory concerned. “The fuel has also entered the lake Piassino. It is a beautiful lake about 70 miles long, containing fish and a beautiful biosphere,” said the governor of the Krasnoyarsk region (Siberia), Alexander Ouss, quoted by the news agency Interfax.
It is now “important to prevent the pollution reaching the river Piassina, more to the North,” he added, believing this to be “possible”. The rivers throw him in the arctic sea of Kara.
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The announcement comes as the authorities had believed the past week have managed to stop the spread of the fuel with booms. On Monday night, they had finally admitted that the pollutants had not yet been contained.
The mining group belies the contamination of the lake Piassino
On 29 may, 21 000 tonnes of fuel in the fuel tank of a thermal power plant belonging to a subsidiary of the large mining group Russian Norilsk Nickel are discharged into the river Ambarnaïa and the land round about, after the break-up of the pillars that support the building.
In a conference call Tuesday evening, Norilsk Nickel, however, has denied the contamination of the lake Piassino and the risk of pollution of the Kara sea. “The distance between the lake Piassino and the Kara sea is more than 5,000 kilometers. Our samples collected in the lake Piassino are 0.0”, said Sergey Diatchenko, first vice-president of the group. “The majority of the pollution can be cleaned up”, he assured, stating that the cleaning had to be completed before the arrival of the cold.
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on Tuesday, the director of Greenpeace Russia, Vladimir Chouprov, said that its teams had not been able to access the site due to containment measures against the coronavirus. “If 10,000 tonnes or more of fuel to reach the lake, it is a disaster. Until now, it does not give us the figures,” he regretted. He has warned of the “adverse consequences” if this pollution was then the Kara sea.
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The thawing of permafrost, or permafrost, a consequence of global warming, is a possible cause of this disaster. The leaders of Norilsk Nickel have acknowledged on Tuesday that the state of the permafrost was not monitored until now, and that a full audit of its infrastructure was going to be conducted.
Date Of Update: 10 June 2020, 10:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn