“There is ten to fifteen percent fuel oil in the soil. The more we remove it before the start of the season, the better,” Russian Environment Minister Alexandr Kozlov told the Interfax agency on Monday. “We will check the beach during the day and decide on further steps in the evening,” he added.
On Monday, the Governor of Cuba, Veniamin Kondratěv, assessed the organization of work on removing the leakage of oil products after the collision of two tankers. More than 10,000 people and 360 pieces of equipment are deployed to clean up the consequences of the accident. He stated that it was Bílá pláž that suffered the most damage.
Kondratěv pointed out that the pollution comes from the sea, and therefore “there is a need to prevent oil products from leaking from tankers and from reaching the shore with maximum speed.”
On Monday, another fuel oil pollution appeared in the area where the river Možepsin flows into the sea in the village of Džemetě. A state of emergency was declared in four villages of the Temrjun District, which is located on the Kuban side of the Kerch Strait, and in the village of Blagověščenskaja near Anapa.
The tankers Volgoněft 212 and Volgoněft 239 sank in the Kerch Strait on December 15.
Fuel oil is leaking from crashed Russian tankers, the Black Sea is threatened with ecological disaster
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A Russian tanker broke up near Crimea. The second sank in an hour
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