said on Wednesday that it was only told of the leak on May 31."All this time, the company tried to localise the consequences of the spill on its own," he said.The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called the accident the second largest in modern Russian history.
Greenpeace compared it to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska.Aleksey Kniznikov, Oil and Gas Programme leader at WWF Russia, believes that just around a third of the leaked fuel can now be cleaned up."We are dealing with.