Russian Government Estimates Black Sea Oil Spill Damage at $1B

Rosprirodonador completed an assessment of the damage caused by the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea in December 2024 — it was estimated at 84.943 billion rubles...

Billions in fines: Rostransnadzor found those responsible for the collapse of tankers in the Black Sea: EADaily

EADaily, April 4th, 2025. Rostransnadzor, together with experts from the Ministry of Transport and Rosmorrechflot, came to the conclusion that the captains and owners of vessels are to blame for the collapse of tankers near the Kerch Strait and the spill of thousands of tons of fuel oil into the Black Sea.

Russian Government Estimates Black Sea Oil Spill Damage at $1B

Russia’s recent oil spill off the Black Sea coast has caused an estimated 84.9 billion rubles ($1 billion) in environmental damage, the government environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said Friday.

Russia puts cost of Black Sea oil spill at almost $1 bn

MOSCOW: Russia on Friday put the cost of a massive Black Sea oil spill in December from two tankers at almost $1 billion, which it is attempting to claim back from the ships' owners. The head of Russia's environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, told a government meeting on the clean-up that the "total sum presented to the polluting companies is 84.9 billion rubles ($998 million)". The ships' owners have a month to pay up volu…

Moscow, Russia. Russian authorities estimated on Friday at about $990 million the damage caused by the spill in mid-December by the shipwreck of two oil tankers between Russia and Crimea, in the Black Sea. According to Svetlana Radionova, director of the Russian environmental protection agency Rosprirodnadzor, the damage of this oil slick amounts to 84.9 billion rubles (about $994.2 million). The companies owned by shipwrecked oil tankers have a…