Russian Company Refuses $2 Billion Government Bill for Arctic Fuel Spill

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Norilsk Nickel is disputing the Russian government's assessment of the damage the fuel spill caused, as incident points to risk of Arctic warming

MOSCOW—The Russian mining company that saw a massive fuel leak at one of its Arctic installations in May is refusing to pay some $2 billion in damages sought by the Russian government to cover the cleanup, and has questioned how the figure was calculated.

At least 20,000 tons of fuel seeped from a holding tank at a power plant run by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, or Nornickel, contaminating a swath of land and several ecologically important bodies of water in what the Russian branch of environmental group Greenpeace called...

 

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