Ambarnaya river

It is located in the Arctic Ocean near Siberia
The Ambarnaya River, into which the oil has been discharged, is part of a network that flows into the environmentally sensitive Arctic Ocean.
The state-owned TASS news agency reported that the emergency measures were announced within Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region, located in the vast and sparsely populated Siberian peninsula.

How did the leak happen?

The thermoelectric power plant at Norilsk is built on permafrost, which has weakened over the years owing to climate change.
The power plant is located near the Region’s Norilsk city, around 3000 km northeast of Moscow.
This caused the pillars that supported the plant’s fuel tank to sink.
Around 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil was released into the Ambarnaya river, which has since drifted 12 km on its surface.

Source: TH

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