State of emergency in Norilsk: the restoration of nature will take 10 years

In Norilsk relocating equipment and equipment from the oil fields of the Yamal Peninsula. Regardie sends the complex of drones for monitoring the condition of the rivers. Rescuers of the Siberian center of MOE in place working around the clock. To help transfer additional troops from several regions. After Vladimir Putin promptly reacted to the first reports about the incident and held a meeting with all responsible departments, on the site of the oil spill for this hour has collected more than two hundred tons of fuel and one and a half thousand cubic meters of contaminated soil. By estimations of ecologists, on the restoration of damaged nature there will require not less than ten years.

a few kilometers away from Norilsk, the river Barn is divided into sleeves. Almost every anyway hit oil. Boom had to put in seven places. Those red walls are called booms. They block the flow at the surface, and because oil is lighter than water, and the river pollution remains in the traps.

All the oil sucks like a wheel the float. It’s called a skimmer. The principle is the same pump all the time on the surface and therefore captures only fuel, with almost no water. By Thursday evening gathered more than 130 tons.

“the Most important thing in our work — not to spread the stain, because if it goes, no one from the ice will not collect. When we arrived, this whole area was an oil-slick to 20 centimetres reached. Now all clean”, — said the Deputy Director of rescue work and liquidation of oil spills of the Northern branch of marine rescue service Michael Surkov.

still on the water a lot of work. Cleaning promise to meet in two weeks if lucky with the weather. Meanwhile, many kilometers of river red can be seen even on satellite maps.

with Their own eyes the scale of the accident early this morning praised the head of the Ministry. Summary of inspection: dispose of the contamination without fire is possible — insisted on it in the Ministry.

Only from the reservoir into the soil and water were about 20 thousand tons of diesel. On the water spot spread of at least 180 thousand square meters.

“Insist on full enforcement of the ecosystem in compliance with all requirements, therefore the company’s costs that it will incur additional construction of highways, temporary roads, additional construction of pipelines, if such will be necessary for pumping of the temporary storage facilities are those costs that the company will incur on yourself — it’s her loss”, — said the head of Rosprirodnadzor, the main state ecological inspector of Russia Svetlana Radionova.

In the leadership of the CHP assure that all maintenance work and check that the tank passed the deadline. However, investigators still need to figure out who and why was not informed about the massive accident. Or leakage of concealed business or specialized agencies.

“because of untimely informing about the emergency situation brought another criminal case under part 1 of article 293 of the Criminal code — negligence. Made the seizure of documents, media recordings of telephone conversations of employees”, — commented the official representative SK the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko.

Hand to shift the blame on each other. The first detainee was an employee of the power plant.

“the Norilsk city court considered the petition of the investigation about the election of a preventive measure in respect of the chief boiler-turbine shop CHP № 3 joint-stock company “NTEC”. The suspect elected a measure of restraint in form of detention for 1 month and 30 days”, — said the Prosecutor of Norilsk Vladimir Bolshunov.

three More criminal cases opened on the fact of damage and the nature of its recovery will take decades.