Russian local authorities are setting up summer season trips for handicapped children at Black Sea resort destinations heavily impacted by last months oil spill, despite warnings from federal officials that the impacted locations will not fully recover and be safe for tourists till 2026.
In the southern Volgograd region, local media reported that authorities invested at least 16 million rubles ($163,000) to send out 160 orphans, handicapped kids and homeless kids to the resort city of Anapa, which is bearing the force of the oil spill.Plans for extra federal government contract bids suggest local authorities aim to spend approximately 26 million rubles ($265,300) on similar journeys for handicapped children.Across Russia, local federal governments havespent over 300 million rubles ($3 million) on childrens getaways to Black Sea resorts in the 2 weeks following the oil spill, The Moscow Times Russian service reported last month.Thousands of lots of heavy fuel oil began spilling into the Black Sea on Dec.
15 after two Russian tankers were harmed in a storm off the coast of the southern Krasnodar region.
President Vladimir Putin and scientists alike have actually explained it as one of the worst environmental catastrophes to hit Russia in current decades.Russias environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzorsaidlast week thatit would file a lawsuit against those accountable for the spill however did not divulge which individuals or entities it prepares to take to court.
The two oil tankers were run by Volgatransneft, while the heavy fuel oil on board the ships belonged to the state oil firm RosneftVolunteers have removed more than 170,000 metric tons of contaminated soil and sand from affected areas given that the spill last month.
Environment Minister Alexander Kozlov informed Putin Friday that clean-up operations will not be finished until the summertime of 2026.
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