Russia declares state of emergency after massive oil spill in the Arctic Circle

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The spillage occurred on May 29 when the 'oil products' leaked from a tank in an industrial plant operated by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel.

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President Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency in a region within the Arctic Circle in far northern Russia.The plant is operated by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, a leading palladium and nickel producer.

The spillage occurred on May 29 when the "oil products" leaked from a tank in an industrial plant operated by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of palladium and one of the largest producers of nickel,"The accident took place at the industrial site of the Nadezhdinski Metallurgical Plant, and part of the spilled petrochemicals, a considerable amount actually, seeped into the Ambarnaya River," Putin said as he discussed the incident with...

"What are we to learn about emergency situations from social networks? Are you alright health wise over there?" Putin said, the news agency reported Wednesday. He then reportedly supported a proposal to declare a national state of emergency in the area as it would assist the clean-up effort.

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Dorvredenja.

fkn idiots

We wish our Russian friends to get rid of from this worst situation early.. India stands with Russia solidly.. Russia RussiaReport

Why doesn't putin call trump and have him go there so he can show the Russians how to really pullute

jonathanwatts you probably already know about it... :-(

Alot o' bad water down dat river!!

It will have an impact on the locals if not the 🌎. Stop believing what they tell you.

Great....

Y'all remember Rex Tillerson and who appointed him?

We knew it was going to happen 😢

Goddammit Russia. We are busy, quit being so sloppy!

lisamurkowski

What's happening to his planet. Have we crossed the line that earth had it enough

Such false propaganda when you say local communities aren't impacted!!

Nice going Should have listened to tesla Instead you want money There is your money Buy yourself a nice fucking lolipop

PWFarrellMusic 😖😖😖🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Worst news of 2020 so far

CYKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Polluted land capitalism now make profit with Green Economy

Great hey humans we are not long for this earth.

NFKRZVEV0

WWF saveourseas

again?

In Soviet Russia, Oil burns you!

Can’t sell it? Spill it!

This’s an a tragedy of major proportions people!

They don't make the walls thick enough to hold the fuel

Him (Russia) having access to an ice-free arctic is a pending global catastrophe. Killing fossil fuels as our “go to” is our only chance... oh yeah, and eat less meat!

The manager has been 'detained.' Ol boy.....

I hope they fucking get poisoned

Drown in it, MFers.

Who's the weak guy

Get it cleaned up!! Or is this fake news?

Spill? Or dump?

embarrassing

The Russians must be the most incompetent nation on Earth when it comes to technology and use of fuel. 1st Chernobyl, now this. They shouldn't be allowed to have any form of technology/fuel source other than flints to make a fire. OILSpill Russia RussiaOilSpill chernobyl

Mi

Yet another series. First chernobyl now Oil spill

2020 can't get any worse can it?

I'm tired, let the END come and restart the Earth.

Worst news of the year this gonna be hell for the wildlife for years worst news of 2020 if anyone needs me to get out there and help with the cleanup dm me

Good fucking job 😒

So Miserable, here's already covid crisis. & This thing happened in addition. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Be careful guys.

This is catastrophe ! Heavy damage to enviornment. 2020 is weird so far.

This isn't going to be too helpful with the Russia-Saudi oil price war.

To late

2020 still on a way making history

That was the least I could do

JayRath92 😮

2020 is the worst year!

OK this is beyond devastating, it will devaste wildlife, fish, endangered species, whales...F**k You Russia The world is waking up and all Plutocracy's will end! RevolutionNow its time we as humanity put the planet and each other ahead of these posionus Governemnts and Putin!

This is all a ploy and a distraction

take me to mars ☺

Arrey yr ab ye kya hai

good god ,this is awful , after Chenobyl ,whats the matter with the russians , dont they care about wildlife and ecology .

Fuck 2020

We need to reduce the population of the world

maiconquenutt

Who would've thought the SpaceX lads are the safest people alive right now.

Feels like 2020 is a year of all 'Egyptian plagues' falling on planet earth.

The day the last drop of oil is pulled out of the ground will be a great day for people, animals and the planet.

twenty...thousand...TONS?!?!?!

You absolute muppets!

its like countries take turns fucking up the environment 🤦🏽‍♂️

RoyPushkin

Sure, why not? Just shovel some more crap on this already, world class shit sandwich!

Idiots!

What can I do to help?

symbiocort HEARTBREAKING

Fuck! This is serious!

It just gets worse and worse

Wow😳

White people are trash

Insaniyat ka dusman kabhi kisi ka bhai or dost nhi ho sakta kabhi bhi kisi ko cut kr sakta hai or uska sath dene wala haiwan hi kahlata hai

BlackLivesMatter but the Earth can be trashed by billions of people

First thought: shouldn’t the Arctic Circle have ice? I’m not an expert.

Just light it. Problem solved. Your welcome.

Don't know why we're all surprised

That's what Putin gets for sticking us with Trump. Maybe Vladmir should lick it all up.

HAPPY JUNE EVERYONE

must be trying to take some heat off his stupid friend. Talk about diving on a bomb.

Chernobyl pt.2

The world uses oil. Demand is still there. When safe and regulated American/Canadian oil projects are rejected, more of this happens to meet demand. The responsible thing to do is take as much market share away from these countries as we can. Use Carbon tax help start clean engy

-_-

And where is GretaThunberg ? SILENT because Putin is left wing. Total Hypocrisy.

These big countries are the real mess in the planet !

p_narelle An absolute travesty 😢 How much more can earth take 🌏

who didn't see dat coming , stop drilling and fucking up our world for money.

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Será que a Greta, vai falar algo? Aliás, cadê ela nessas horas? hipocrisia

やっちまったな

Buy more electric cars.

thats another thing for the apocalypse bingo card

MrQuantumLeaps Everyone needs to stay th f**k out of the Arctic!!!! No more oil rigs!

Adam_Beierle

Sad imagining all the wildlife lost at the hands of humans.

Thteres has to be tech that can seperate oil from water and clean it at the same time but moves like a rover or whatever ya kno?

*2020 intensifies*

We're doomed, times are just getting darker and darker

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Smh 🤦🏽‍♀️

fuck fossil fuels just leave them as they are

ElliotOwen_

Now how the hell did that happen 😂

First the Washington Monument gets struck with lightning, largest free flying flag (in Wisconsin) gets torn up by a storm & now this happens in Russia? Anyone else see a correlation here?

Can 2020 possibly get any worse?

'2020 The Movie' is becoming a tad unrealistic with the rate of super obvious disasters.

😢

JFC, humans suck.

The end of the world I'm done

🤔Awww crap. Here we go again with this mess. BP Oil Spill part 2. The animals are gonna get screwed in this one.

For fucks sake! This world is a mess

Great(sarcasm) no more crab meat because they aren't investing in green energy. Putin and Trump are idiots proven yet again!

Utterly disgusting when on earth will we learn to look after this planet?

This will be America if we Dont Stop Trump! Oh who am I kidding? We are all living in Russia Now!

Very dangerous

This is so bad so so bad

This is why no one should be drilling in the Artic, this is horrific & heartbreaking

God dammit Russia now’s not the time

It’s wild that this happened right after Russia was one of the ones celebrating the violence in the US. Should of stayed silent now look messing up the environment some more

The human race:

OOPS

2020 to humans:

As if 2020 wasn't bad enough.

oh fu-

RIP fishies

What American (other than a democrat) could ever criticize if Putin's clean up is for shit. . .after all, Republicans are wedded to oil and spills and dont believe in science. . .Armageddon is coming. .why bother to clean up at all?

Wtf do people have too put tanks like this so frickin close too major water ways

No no no. We are drowning in catastrophes already....

Fuckin humans

lemme just get the bingo card out real quick

This is awful! So very many tragedies this year. Praying for 2020 to get better...somehow.

I give up. Beam me up

It’s going to be a massive effort to clean this up. I did research on this in college and getting the resources and equipment there is one issue then also dealing with various types of weather in the Arctic is another issue.

So much for World Environment day.

🖕🏼Russia

Great get greeta one there

CAN WE GO JUST 1 MONTH IN 2020 WITHOUT NEW SHIT TRYING TO KILL US !!!?

coburn4brexit These are materials needed for the green revolution.

BanArcticOil

It's like there isnt enough poison in our life..beside the over 300 nuclear tests, and at least 2 nuclear meltdowns, all the other oil spills, nuclear waste in the sea and plastic zones in the oceans, are we trying to wipe everything out? 😔saveEarth GREENLEGACY Earth

Free Newton's pair

Devastating! It also took several days to start acting on a national level..

the company better clean every last drop and pay for it all

This is all to blame on a tank in need of repair that was ignored. Mining all over the world use the same tanks that don’t leak, but it’s inevitable they will one day if not maintained. No different than the propane tank for your BBQ or your seal on your toilet.

it's only halfway 2020 and we have so much to deal with, i really can't prepare for more

So the world really is ending in 2012...Ethiopian time.

“Spill”

Can 2020 get any worse or what?! I’m sick and tired of hearing terrible news all the time.

USA, Israel and Russia, always damaging human lives as well natural habitats.

Still destroying the Earth to burn fossil fuels to destroy it further.

Well Russia better hope the other 7 countries in the area don't get angry.

This is why what Tesla is doing with renewable energy is so important... Fossil fuels kill the planet!

That's why people have been asking for all countries to stop fracking and mining in the arctic circle.

Unbelievable

How is the fuel going to interact with all the melting methane up there? Permafrost thaw more, then 💥

jebus911

it’s not yours to destroy.

Soooo should we expect an HBO miniseries in 30+ years, talking about how the Russians could’ve avoided this mess?

Is putin's head getting bigger?

Oil spill 🙄 OmarGoshTV huntingthedead

MalcolmNance No doubt a dump of excess oil disguised as an accident.

MalcolmNance Is Putin psychopathic enough to do this to his own citizens? Hope Trump doesn’t get any ideas!

Maybe America can send over some Propaganda bots to spam Russian forums with political agendas, to return the thanks for Russia helping to get the Orange IDIOT into office. Would that help, Russia?

he’s getting his karma as well

Sad to hear that. COVID19 and then environment crisis. Listening to our hearts, what happened?

Oh COME ON

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Oh no.

20,000 tons of oil. To put this in perspective: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of BP saw up to 3,515,034 tonnes of oil leaded into the environment before it was capped. Another bullsh*t propaganda story.

Tapan38397035

althiaraj A complete lack of environmental standards. Common practice is to have secondary containment.

And that’s why we don’t want oil anymore.

Noooooooooo😩

2020: Hypersonic nuclear bombs with the capability to hack into sovereign nations security systems, remote control fly ten airliners simultaneously whilst building onboard 3 near perfect human androids to seduce your mothers.. 2020: Still transporting oil in ships

Ok... Who has oil spill on their 2020 bingo card!

Anyone know if this is the story we are goin with this month ?!? Dosnt sound impactful enough the world got anithing els ?

How much coverage will this story receive?

This happens right after they mock the U.S protests and call George Floyd a 'negro' I absolutely hate it because Russia has once against fucked up our aquatic wildlife, but if this isn't karma I don't know what is.

biosolvit biosolvitbr can help.

tha_rami I think this belongs on

so sad 💔

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I do not fucking trust them to clean that

Gee, who could have seen that coming! These dictators are trying to kill us all 😡

2020 🤷🏼‍♂️

with this chaos, this is the last thing we need

Reminds me of that HUGE oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. Who knows if things are back to normal. So sad to see so much dead marine life and washing ashore.

disgraceful

The US Military getting their Flecktarn WorldEnvironmentDay

TRAIN TO BUSAN

Rusia did it again. First Chernobyl and now this.

OH, NOOO!!!! This is horrible. Oh, my God, indeed. Heartbreaking. 😥😢😢

Ha! Ha! Take THAT! *SLAP!* Signed, -the year 2020 (we're not even half way through yet)

Rusia again. First Chernobyl and now this! 👐👏👏👏👏👏👏

The next chapter of 2020 begins

Thought for sure this was going to happen in the Gulf Of Mexico impacting the USA, been a few years since its happened there.

o. can we we get together even if it’s ok

MalcolmNance Just..fucking..great...

Can things get any worse?

Oh, my God!

Congratulations. Happy Environment day

Bruh wtf

Oh no. Hope it can be under control

Happy world environment Day everyone 🤔

MalcolmNance Wait wasn’t that oil spill weeks ago

Amazing

Wouldn’t you like to tell about the guy who was shut at home by police for nothing at Ekaterinburg? Or do just black lives matter?

MalcolmNance Is there this where Putin pollutes the entire planet?

Remember the last ep of Chernobyl? “Because it’s cheaper” Written above Vladimirs race car bed

Oh boy...

MalcolmNance So it was more than usual 10% wasted this time?

MalcolmNance God don’t appreciate ugly and what Russia Putin does in the world is ugly

Happy WorldEnvironmentDay... Russia will never be honoring this day until they transition away from fossil fuels.

Man keeps destroying this beautiful planet. We will never learn.

Ah, so june is Oil Spill. Really didnt see that coming. Was honestly expecting hail the size of mini vans next.

Just as the climate is reconnecting itself during the pandemic, the Fn Russians go and feck it up again. Morons.

and there ya have it! Russia OILSpills This is disgusting!

Time to end fossil fuels

OH GOD!! SOMEONE SAVE THE ANIMALS THERE!!

Russia...having power plant issues. No way!

Damn, Russia just started its side quest.

Not again! Another oil spill to further damage an already fragile ecosystem 😤

When deny the much needed effort to use clean energy sources.

The fact that they had no choice but to declare a state of emergency and couldn't simply cover it up, the way they did when dropping that nuclear fucking reactor in the White Sea, should speak volumes to just how bad this is.

OMG

Nothing going right this year

*sigh*

So this is what June is going to be, someone is going to set it a light and we will all burn!

Knowing putin he probably ordered it to distract Russia from noticing how poorly he’s done with the covid crisis.

Use trump's diapers to sock up the oil.

Heartbreaking. The world has to change.

This the shit that happens when your production rates are historically high smh

CNBC You think to your-self it cant get any worse, and then it does. I wish people cared about the Earth as they do about who created it.

Trump would probably gloat that the oil spill is 'fake news' and cost dozens of people their lives drinking the infected water before he'd do anything

You’ve got to be kidding me... Just as Mother Nature has a break from all her inhabitants, a massive oil spill happens.

2020 back at it again

Ohh nah wtf these bums

“It’s game over man... it’s game over.”

Thanks a lot Russia!

my heart breaks for the damage done to the environment and the animals that will be affected by this.

Where are the environmentalists? Those Communists only protest against the US

They better clean this up! It’s heinous!

trump will be there to have his vladdys back.

2020 just 2020

Stupid bozos

Damn u Trump its his fault! (says many morons, everywhere) How long before this is Trumps special fuel for his solid gold fabulous robotic Liger with a sadle woven from the hair of child laborers, accented with Platinum Diamonds? Russia

THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO ADVANCE TO ELECTRIC CARS!! Fuel does nothing but bad for the environment. If your county has a large percentage of renewable energy sources, than electric vehicles can be a TON better than gas powered cars.

2020 ataca novamente

Fucking Russians.

russia has been doing this for years but suddenly now it’s too much putin has known about this for years.

And what a mess it is. cleanenergyfuture And we need to keeping working & innovating to keep cleanenergy clean too.

Sure, why not? At this point, an earthkiller asteroid wouldn’t surprise.

Are you serious?

I was able to tweet about this yesterday b/c I saw in on the profile page of one of the people I follow.

That's it. Send in Greta!

No secondary containment measures? Oh I guess that was the river eh Russia... Russia continues on a daily basis to give zero fucks about the rest of the world.

PattyArquette

PattyArquette You big dummies.

This is not the emergency. The emergency is the ClimateCrisis. These is just one of the tragic consequences of not taking the emergency seriously. RussiaUN _Arctic_Circle ArcticBasecamp ArcticCouncil Norilsk Ambarnaya Daldykan

Something is familiar...

PattyArquette God damn neighborhood gone to shit.

I cannot for the life of me understand why people are against drilling or transporting oil in such a remote, difficult, extremely valuable (environmentally) area. 🤦‍♂️ Fuckheads never should been there.

Almost like oil is a dangerous form of power supply and we should look to safer ones that can provide even more. Oh wait...we can't profit as much off of those nevermind.

State of indecency

Horrific.

This is so 2020.

Absolutely everything operates this way in Russia. Underinvestment in infrastructure, maintenance and safety while oligarchs take money out of the country. They will find a scapegoat - mid lever engineer or suchlike. Putin’s friend aka the owner will never answer for this.

2020 you never cease to amaze me

STOP ARCTIC DRILLING

Dangit, Trump! I guess have only 9 years left now.

Thank god nobody lives there

Hurry and Blame realDonaldTrump

Nice little distraction Vlad. Oooooh! I'm so cynical. lol!

Solar. Wind Hydro. We have enough fucking problems. Y’all made enough money. It’s time. It’s been time.

WTF...didn't they learn from Chernobyl?

If it's not the Chinese its the Russians contaminating the world!

Who had major oil spill on their 2020 bingo card?

Way to fecking go, Russia.

oh FFS. seriously?. this is awful

“the accident was caused by a sudden sinking of supporting posts in the basement of the storage tank” This is a known risk for all such facilities built on permafrost. Given the reality of climate change Arctic drilling should be banned KeepItInTheGround

2020's not even halfway done.

Imagine if someone drops their cigar in that

Just what the planet needs 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

Thanks a lot. That's gonna affect us too. 🇨🇦

Humans suck so hard

this is horrendous

Wtf

NimaEslami tesla the goat?

Catastrophic

oops turns out living in an oligarchy run by wealthy capitalists is a bad idea

FFS are things up there not bad enough ?

Read, it will take around 10 years to clear this spill... God save aquatic life:

We're all so fucked.

Smdh...

Way to go JoeBiden!!! Great idea letting Exxon partner with Rosneft & bring Russia's oil per day from 5 million barrels to 11 million barrels. Now they have more money than they know what to do with & are digging all over the place including the Arctic Circle. SuperPolluterJoe

No State of Emergency due to COVID, but finally got one due to OIL spill

Bad news.

Add that to the cuts!

IF BLACK LIVES MATTER to you just take two seconds to hear me out THANK YOU 💜💜 blacklivesmatter

Russia f*cks up everything.

Bastards!

Trump's fault

fucking hell 2020 just won't give up

Jesus Christ. It's only June. We still got 6 months to endure.

What is this out of nowhere.

2020 keeps on giving

Well, here comes a spike in oil prices. 🙄

2020 folks....

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