12 April 2004 06:47
Oil leakage pollutes Russian island in Sea of Japan
More than 700 m of coastline on the Putyatin Island in the Sea of Japan [off the Maritime Territory coast between
Vladivostok and Nakhodka] has been polluted with oil products. The oil slick has covered the Shirokaya Bay.
Activists of the Brok environmental watchdog have discovered that a naval fuel storage facility was located on the
island in the past. The military left the facility unattended in the mid-1990s. Several days ago local people stole for
scrap the tabs from a fuel reservoir, made of non-ferrous metals. As a result, the remaining fuel began leaking into the
sea.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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