An image captured on May 23, 2020 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows Ambarnaya River before a diesel spill by a fuel tank at a power plant near Norilsk, operated by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, and collapsed on May 29th. Picture taken May 23, 2020. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/via REUTERS
Russia's environmental watchdog will finish its assessment of the damage done by last month's fuel spill in the Arctic city of Norilsk by July 1, it said on Friday.
Some 21,000 tonnes of diesel leaked into rivers and subsoil on May 29 in Norilsk, home to mining giant Norilsk Nickel , in an incident that Greenpeace has compared to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
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