18 September 2003 04:42
Russia: clearing work started on chemical leak from container in Kamchatka
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 18 September: Specialists started work today on recycling the chemicals from the container
belonging to the DuPont company which leaked into the sea off Bering Island in the waters of the Komandorskiye
Islands.
The head of the department of natural resources and protection of the environment of the Russian Natural Resources
Ministry for Kamchatka Region and Koryakskiy Autonomous District [northeast Russia], Yuriy Goraschenko, told ITAR-TASS
that about 3.8 cubic meters of tetraethylene glycol will be burnt in a special furnace under the supervision of the
department's experts. The operation, according to the experts, will take about a day.
[passage omitted]
The DuPont company will pay for the entire cost of removing the container from the Bering Island in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, the recycling work and monitoring for one year the environment in the area where the chemical
leaked.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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