This release was then “stopped” by the staff of the factory and it does not represent “no threat of leakage of waste”, according to the company Nornickel.
The Russian mining giant Nornickel has reported this Sunday, a discharge of wastewater in one of the factories of ore enrichment in the Arctic, one month after a pollution free previous to hydrocarbons in the same region.
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According to a press release published on the website of Nornickel, the incident involved the plant of enrichment of Talnakh, located near the arctic city of Norilsk. Wastewater, used for the treatment of ore mined from the region, have “overflowed from a tank” Sunday, and are released into the wild, according to the company.
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This release was then “stopped” by the staff of the factory and it does not represent “no threat of leakage of waste”, according to Nornickel. The services of the Russian ministry of emergency Situations on site, as cited by the public agency Ria Novosti, however, have evoked a risk of contamination of the river Kharaïelakh surrounding by toxic substances. The investigative Committee of the Russian has confirmed in a press release a “rejection of non-permitted liquid waste in the tundra zone” near Talnakh and announced the opening of an investigation.
The opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, for its part, claimed that the factory was rejected illegally and purposefully waste water in nature and published images of the area. According to its local correspondents, employees of Nornickel have disassembled the pipes of rejection to look forward to when they arrive on-site investigators, and emergency services.
“Avoid possible situations of emergency”
A spokesman for Nornickel, Tatiana Egorova, has confirmed that the employees of the factory had taken the decision “to reject the purified water of the tank” and that an internal investigation was underway. According to the Russian agency, environmental control, Rosprirodnadzor, the staff of the factory has taken this decision due to “heavy rainfall”, which have resulted in a “sharp increase in the water level in the settling basin”. To “avoid potential emergency situations, the employees have decided to “reject the industrial water is purified to the adjacent area”, in nature.
This is the second incident of this type in a month in the region : on may 29, 21 000 tonnes of fuel contained in the tank of a thermal power plant belonging to Nornickel were dumped into the river Ambarnaïa and land near, tinting the water purple.
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president Vladimir Putin had declared a state of emergency in this region of the Russian Arctic is rich in minerals and coal. The authorities have indicated the June 17, having completed the surface cleaning of this pollution, although complete cleanup may take “years”. Nornickel considers that the accident was probably caused by thawing permafrost – or frozen ground -a consequence of climate change, which would have resulted in the collapse of the pillars supporting the tank.
