The damage inflicted on nature will be estimated by ecological specialists An oil tanker turned over in Bavly - the area of littered territory amounted to 500 m2.

Ecological specialists of the Priikskoe Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan drew samples of soil and melted snow today at the site of oil spillage in Bavly district. As a reminder,  an accident involving an oil tanker (owned by the carrier "Samara transportation company" LLC) took place today in the morning, in the catchment basin of the Kandyz River near Novozarechensk village. As a result of the accident, the area of oil spillage on the landscape of 500 m2 amounted to 24 m3.  At a glance, the oil slick didn't reach the Kandyz River. The measures were implemented aiming at localization of oil spillage on top of melted snow. Article 42 of the Land Code of the Russian Federation was violated ("Land plot owners and persons who are not land plot owners shallnot allow pollution, depletion, degradation, damage, destruction of lands and soils or any other negative impact on lands and soils) along with Article 46 of the Federal Law "On environmental protection" as of January 10, 2002 No. 7-FZ (Requirements in the field of environmental protection in the course of placement, designing, construction, reconstruction, launching and operation of the oil and gas extraction facilities, as well as the facilities for processing, transportation, storage and distribution of oil, gas and their derivatives).

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