“This problem needs to be solved, because the damage will grow every year. The scale is very serious. The pipes explode, the piles collapse, ”the deputy minister said in an interview with Bloomberg.
According to Krutikov, the study of this issue should be one of the priorities of the state, the department cannot ignore it, since it directly affects economic development.
According to the agency, the melting of glaciers in the Arctic is twice as fast as in the rest of the world. For Russia, the problem is especially acute, since about 15% of its oil and 80% of gas are in permafrost.
Earlier it was reported that the highest rates of thawing of permafrost in Russia were found in the cities of Vorkuta, Salekhard, Chita, Ulan-Ude and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.