Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yuri Bezdudny announced this on his Instagram page.
“An emergency regime has been introduced on the territory.
A criminal case has been opened on the fact, ”he said.
According to him, the interdepartmental group quickly surveyed the territory.
Emergency measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of the leak.
“We have to find out all the circumstances and assess the damage,” he added.
Earlier, the authorities of the city of Usinsk decided to introduce an emergency situation on the territory of the municipality due to the pollution of the Kolva River with oil products.
On August 23, it was reported that at the LUKOIL enterprise in the Usinsky district of Komi, during the dismantling of the decommissioned section of the pipe, about 7 tons of oil leaked, the contaminated area was 0.48 hectares.
On August 3, the prosecutor's office announced that an oil spill occurred in the Usinsk region of Komi due to damage to the pressure pipeline.
On July 28, the press service of Rosprirodnadzor announced the amount of damage caused to the Khimki reservoir from the oil spill.
On June 28, the Emergencies Ministry reported that an unidentified liquid leaked into the tundra zone on the territory of the Talnakh enrichment plant in Norilsk.
It was clarified that there is a threat of sewage entering the Kharaelakh River.
On June 16, the governor of the Vologda region, Oleg Kuvshinnikov, said that about 2.5 tons of benzene had spilled at the industrial site of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant (CherMK).
On May 29, a diesel fuel spill occurred at CHPP-3, owned by Norilsk Nickel.
The area of pollution, according to the prosecutor's office, amounted to 180 thousand square meters.
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