This summer’s oil spill in the Arctic Russian city of Norilsk has broken the record for the largest of all time, according to Alexander Chupriyan, the country’s first deputy minister of emergency situations.
“In the history of mankind, such a quantity of liquid diesel fuel has never leaked out,” he said, noting that the disaster taught his ministry that it needs equipment that not only pumps “salty and polluted water, but also oil products.”
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