A new methodology for assessing environmental damage from accidents like an oil spill will appear in Russia in six months. Svetlana Radionova, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Use (Rosprirodnadzor), announced this during an "Open Dialogue" with members of the Federation Council. According to her, it will consolidate the principle of calculating damage, which will be assessed directly from the moment of violation.
Rodionova explained that after the oil spill in Norilsk at the Norilsk Nickel enterprise, the ambiguity in the interpretation of the methodology led to a large litigation (As a result of the accident at the TPP of the Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (NTEK), which is part of the Norilsk Nickel group of companies, 21 thousand tons of diesel fuel leaked out of the tank.The court ordered the company to pay 146 billion rubles - approx.).
“We believe that both for us and for enterprises, any enterprise, it is necessary to revise the methodology in this way to avoid ambiguity: whether the coefficient is applied or not, how it is considered, in what volume, from what moment. We hope that in the next six months we will end this war with methods,» added the head of Rosprirodnadzor.
Radionova noted that the new methodology should be clear to every enterprise and will become a compromise solution of Rosprirodnadzor, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Business.
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