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

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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...

 

Right. Because it's their right to rape and pillage for free.

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