Crown Resources requires compensation for losses caused as a result of the Prestige Tanker accident

Crown Resources, the owner of the oil of the prestige tanker, was ready to help in eliminating the consequences of the accident on November 19, “but first I would like to figure out who and how to help,” said the company representative Alexei Kuzmichev.

“We would like to understand first who is responsible,” Kuzmichev emphasized. “We have already suffered - lost the cargo that was in the tanker, and although it was insured, we have not received any compensation so far.”

“We would like to first clarify the situation with the compensation of those enough, losses that we suffered, and then we will think how and how we can help to be useful,” he explained.

According to the company representative, Crown Resources is ready to participate in any public and vowel investigations and help with what he can. "" The company hopes that the losses caused to it as a result of the accident will be compensated, "Kuzmichev noted.

According to Greenpeace, the collapse of the Prestige tanker is the “most large -scale catastrophe in the history of humanity”

The collapse of the Prestige Tanker off the coast of Spain is the “most large -scale catastrophe in the history of mankind,” said Natalya Oliva, head of the climatic project of Greenpeace on the air of the Echo of Moscow .

Currently, about 20 tons of fuel oil have already spilled out of the sunken tanker. According to forecasts, a complete devastation of the containers may occur in the future, and about 70 thousand tons of oil will appear to the surface and reached the coast, the pericix noted.

In conditions of constant flow of petroleum products, fuel oil will be covered with more than a thousand kilometers of the coastline. “Not only unique baking territories will be in the catastrophe zone, but the damage will also be caused a unique territory with sandy shores, beaches. There are many rare animal species, the number of which will be reduced because of this, and these species are unlikely to recover in the near future,” said the Oliva.

She recalled that before the collapse of the “prestige” of the largest such disaster, the Expoons Valdes oil tank accident was considered off the coast of Alaska in 1989. Then the environment received more than 40 thousand tons of oil, and subsequently, only two of the most affected animal species were restored. In general, the injured territory was restored for decades, the ecologist noted.

On the territory of the coast of Spain, which suffered due to the collapse of the Prestige Tanker, the climate is softer, which will contribute to faster self-purification, but in general, the damage will be much larger due to the uniqueness of the flora and fauna of this zone, the Olyntic said.

The prestige tanker split in half and sank on November 19 off the northeastern coast of Spain. This happened 133 sea miles from the shore. The ship went under water along with 77 thousand tons of fuel.