Kozlov promised to clean up beaches of resorts after fuel oil spill by summer
The beaches of the Black Sea resorts after the accident with tankers in the Kerch Strait will be brought to normal condition by the summer season. This was announced by Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Alexander Kozlov on January 24 during a field meeting of the governmental commission on liquidation of the consequences of the incident.
"By the summer season the condition of the beaches should be brought to a normative state. This means there should be no fuel oil on the beach," TASS quoted him as saying.
The head of the Ministry of Natural Resources said that for this purpose the soil from the beaches will be removed to temporary storage sites for almost a month. Volunteers and EMERCOM employees will also contribute to the work on the removal of fuel oil and restoration of beaches.
According to Kozlov, new technological ways to solve the problem are born every day.
The day before, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources said that the Russian government will allocate 1.5 billion rubles to reimburse the costs of liquidation of the consequences of the wreck of tankers in the Black Sea. According to Kozlov, three priority deposits of quartz sand near Anapa have already been identified, from where the resource will be taken to restore beaches after their cleaning.
Tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" due to bad weather crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On the instructions of the Russian President, a working group was set up to coordinate the work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.
