Ussia launches robe into oil spill ff Black Sea coast
Russian prosors on Wednesday opened a inal probe into an oil spill e country’s Black Sea coast appeared to be far bigger initially expected and left es of pollution along the ic coastline. e spill occurred over the kend at the oil terminal in naya Ozereyevka near the
of Novorossiysk that ngs to the Caspian Pipeline sortium, which pumps e from Kazakhstan. The oil d while being pumped into Minerva Symphony tanker, h sails under the Greek Authorities initially estied that the spill covered about 200sq metres, but sian scientists said on nesday after studying satelmages that it actually covnearly 80sq km. WF Russia has estimated about 100 metric tons of oil spilled into the sea. he prosecutor general’s
Abrau-dyurso and a dolphin aquarium in Bolshoy Utrish, 25km to the west, where workers urgently put up barriers to protect the mammals. The spill’s oily film was also spotted in the resort city of Anapa, further west down the coast.
Deputy prime minister Viktoria Abramchenko met with the director of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium that operates a 1,511km pipeline stretching from Kazakhstan to Russia’s Black Sea coast to request information about the spill.
Shell to pay $111mn for Nigerian oil spill
Oil major Shell will pay a Nigerian community 45.9 billion naira ($111.68mn) to settle a case over an oil spill that took place more than 50 years ago, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The company will pay the Ejama-ebubu community in Nigeria’s Ogoniland the “full and final settlement” to end the case over a spill that took place during the 1967-70 Biafran War.
Nigeria’s supreme court in