Fuel Oil Leak in Black Sea: Tanker Collision Causes Environmental Crisis

New emissions of fuel oil have been detected in the Black Sea, which leaked as a result of a collision between two Russian tankers. Pollution has already been detected on 15 sections of the coast of the Krasnodar Territory of Russia and occupied Crimea.

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

Rescuers continue to eliminate the consequences of the environmental disaster. According to their data, since the beginning of the work, 355 kilometers of the coast have been cleaned, and the total area of the Black Sea pollution survey amounted to 7,500 square kilometers. At the same time, they managed to collect about 180 thousand tons of contaminated soil.

Environmentalists have been monitoring the fuel oil discharge on the Black Sea coast for three weeks now. During a regular survey, they found a massive death of jellyfish of the aureole species.

Meanwhile, on the coast near the village of Mykolayivka, Serhiyivka community, Odesa region, environmentalists have discovered new areas contaminated with fuel oil.

On January 29, utilities in Odesa Oblast began work to clean the coast from oil pollution. Earlier, employees of the Tuzly Estuaries National Park found fuel oil on the park's coast, which they collected and handed over to Vladyslav Balynskyi's private laboratory.

After that, the Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies at the Odesa Regional State Administration held an extraordinary meeting.

The accident in the Kerch Strait became known on December 15. The shipwreck occurred near Cape Panagia in the Temryuk district of Krasnodar Krai, in the southwest of the Taman Peninsula, 12 kilometers from the village of Taman. It is the eastern entrance to the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea. According to official data, both tankers could have been carrying about 8,000 tons of oil products.

Андрій Колісніченко