“Who is to blame for the environmental disaster in the Arctic”: retelling of the report “Editor”

The YouTube channel of Alexei Pivovarov released a report on the environmental accident in Norilsk. The owner of the Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin met with journalists. Now the authors are accused of biased coverage of the problem.

Special issue “Who is to blame for the environmental disaster in the Arctic” was published on the channel “Editor” on June 10. It is dedicated to the accident at the TPP-3 belonging to the Norilsk Nickel. 20 thousand tons of diesel fuel (diesel fuel) into water bodies flowing into the Kara Sea poured from the TPP reservoir. Taiga.info retells the content of the special issue.

Diesel fuel spilled on May 29 from the TPP-3 tank: it hit the road, and then leaked into reservoirs. A car burned out on a flooded diesel fuel. According to the Krasnoyarsk Ministry of Emergencies, the car rammed the TPP reservoir, which caused a leak and fire. Elena Svetikova, a journalist of the editorial office, calls this version “Strange”, since the reservoir and the road shares the fence.

“It was evident that the car was on, it was stewed, and the river from the fuel flows from the tank. There was one calculation of the Ministry of Emergencies. He immediately gave a telegram to the edge, ”said Sergey Shakudov, director of the Russian Green Platform.

At a meeting on June 3, President PF Vladimir Putin was outraged that the authorities learned about the accident only two days later. Sergey Shakhmatov said, referring to the document of the operational duty officer of the Ministry of Emergencies, that the environmental service of thermal power plants and rescuers reacted to the accident within an hour. “Although on the line with the president it was said that no one had notified anyone. How so? " - Damage chess with his hands.

The head of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the Novosibirsk Region Pavel Minakov explained that the fire service liquidated the fire, but its competence did not include the definition of a spill of oil products.

“Presumably, piles have subsided due to changes in permafrost. It is difficult to predict such things, ”said Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin.

The businessman in a conversation with the editorial office called a leak of twenty thousand tons of oil products “unexpected emergency” and “serious problem”. One of the reasons for the environmental disaster, judging by the words of Potanin, is associated with the consequences of global warming. The oligarch also stated that he raises the question of state bodies about the need for a program of renovation of housing standing on stilts in Norilsk.

The director of the Arctic permafrost research center Zhanna Petukhova explained that the fuel tanks of the TPP-3 are not in permafrost, like the residential buildings of Norilsk, but on a "rock foundation".

The deputy director of the Northern branch of the Marine Rescue Service Mikhail Sarkov considered the fuel spill "Big". In his opinion, the most effective way to collect petroleum products is a “skimmer system of the threshold type”.

The fuel located on the surface drops below and rolls into the funnel, then it is assembled through the hose, explains the process of Sarkov. On the Ambari River, barriers that delay oil products are installed.

“Do you know that we flew here? Because we knew that if we don’t arrive here, then we’ll fly to the Kara Sea, ”the marine rescuer laughed.

Ecologist Natalya Karmanovskaya suggested a diesel engine in the sea: “Such toxic infection leads to death [nature]. Deer pastures can be affected, everything that lives in the water area. ”

The distance between the spill site and the Kara Sea is eight hundred kilometers, the local "green" Sergey Shakhletov notes. “Do you understand? Feel? This distance can be passed in a week, in two. It would definitely not be in the Kara Sea, half of the river is still frozen in the lower reaches, ”the man assured the journalists.

Refined residents of Norilsk said that they did not notice the disasters, because there are “gas attacks” in the city. “This did not affect the city in any way. Everything is about the same as it is, ”said the nameless nine -grader.

The journalists of the editorial office also visited the camp of liquidators of the accident. They talked with a woman who fifty people fed in a day, and examined the tent in which the field kitchen was located.

What happened after

After the report was released, the audience accused the authors of the “editorial office” of engaged in the illumination of the problem in favor of the interests of the Norilsk Nickel. At the time of publication, the video scored 19 thousand diesels at 588 thousand views.

“In order to do something in Norilsk, including shooting, you need to negotiate with Norilikel, otherwise nothing will come of it. And we agreed, we went to meet us. On our part, there was a condition that we would not tell only the point of view of Norilsk Nickel. I hope you will see it now, ”the creator of the editorial office Alexei Pivovarov said before the start of the issue.

In the report, for example, the emergency condition of the fuel tank-3 was not mentioned as the reason for the leakage of oil products. “The TPP-3 tanks are about thirty years old. Metals are getting tired, and pile foundations, too, and there were bells that there could be any accident, ”Rinat Fayzulin, a former Norkel employee, told Novickel.