Sakhalin: Oil Products Get into Spawning River

The Okha city public prosecutor’s office received a report from the administration of the city district Okhinskiy about the damage of the main oil pipeline Okha-Komsomol’sk-na-Amure between the 4th and 5th checkpoints (at the distance of 100 km of the town of Okha) and oil products getting into the spawning river of Kamulan.

The prosecutor’s office immediately organized the inspection of how OOO Sakhalinmorneftegaz, which is the owner of the main oil pipeline Okha-Komsomol’sk-na-Amure, complies with the egislation on the environmental protection.

The public prosecutor’s office together with the representatives of the administration of the city district Okhinskiy and the local department of the Federal Security Service organized an inspection of the damaged site.

It was revealed that in June 6 2012 on the site of the oil pipeline there occurred an oil spill to the surface of water with the part of oil getting into the spawning river of Kamulan. According to the preliminary estimate, the area of the contaminated soil surface comprised 60 square meters.

At present the Okha city public prosecutor’s office is carrying out the events, aimed at identifying the quantity of oil products, which got into the spawning river, and the material is being collected for starting a lawsuit against the guilty persons.

At the same time the department of Rosprirodnadzor in the Sakhalin region received an order to send an expert of the department to the Okha district for evaluating the amount of damage, caused the environment.

Метки: environmental damage, oil, oil pipeline Okha-Komsomol’sk-na-Amure, oil products, oil spill

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