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The State Duma urged not to hide the scale of the consequences of the tanker crash in Kerch
Deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Ecology Anatoly Greshnevikov warned that the crash of two tankers near Kerch could become a “dangerous eco-bomb” that cannot be kept silent about. Greenpeace also announced an environmental disaster that would lead to the death of thousands of fish and birds. Russian media, citing satellite data, reported that, according to preliminary data, more than three thousand tons of fuel oil ended up in the water as a result of the accident. Previously, the consequences of such accidents took months to eliminate.
Two tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank during a storm in the Kerch Strait. According to media reports, each of them contained more than four thousand tons of fuel oil. As the deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Ecology, Anatoly Greshnevikov, told RTVI , the emergency concerns all countries that have access to the Black Sea.
“Dolphins, fish, shellfish, algae... And so biodiversity is declining. And if we take into account that there are even larger reserves of hydrogen sulfide in the Black Sea and we have been sitting on such a dangerous environmental bomb for decades, then this aggravates the situation even more,” the deputy warned.
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According to Greshnevikov, any oil spill is a “blow to the ecosystem.” And in the case where a large amount of fuel is transported, there must be “a special attitude towards environmental measures.” He called for “ringing the bells,” since the consequences of such leaks could be “hidden.” “We are waiting for Rosprirodnadzor to establish, the main thing is that the consequences are not hidden - neither the volumes themselves, nor the consequences, because usually they always gloss over it, hide it,” he noted.
Greenpeace expert Dmitry Markin, in a commentary to Dozhd , said that the tanker crash in the Kerch Strait could have become one of the largest environmental disasters in recent years. According to him, a significant part of the fuel oil will settle at the bottom, and this will lead to the destruction of the food supply for many species of fish, and this fuel is also deadly for birds.
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The expert compared this emergency with the accident in 2007, when more than 12 thousand birds died as a result of a tanker crash at the same place. Then a little more than 1.5 thousand tons of fuel oil leaked, and this, according to him, led to serious consequences: the fuel spread tens of kilometers along the shores of the strait, and it took more than a month to collect it.
This time, according to satellite monitoring, about three thousand tons of fuel oil leaked . A RIA Novosti source stated about 3.7 thousand tons. And this is still preliminary information. Scientific journalist Vlad Goncharuk noted that the 2007 disaster had been studied by international experts for a long time. And now, due to the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it will be difficult to conduct such research.
As a result of a tanker crash off the coast of Kerch, one person died from hypothermia and injuries, and more than ten more were hospitalized. To assess the environmental consequences, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia Alexander Kozlov, the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionov and other officials arrived at the scene of the accident.
Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev said that the spilled fuel oil was drifting to the coast in the area from the Tuzla Spit to Cape Panagia. Experts will be able to assess the scale of the spill only after a full inspection of the vessels; they hope that the leak of oil products occurred partially.
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