The main threats are the pollution of coastal ecosystems and the risk of an oil film reaching other areas of the Crimean coast.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Svetlana Grinchuk, said that the damage as a result of the accident of two tankers in the Kerch Gulf could reach $14 billion.
“If we use our methods for calculating losses, if the amount of these products is more than 4 thousand tons, there will be losses of $14 billion for the Black Sea,” explained the minister.
Grinchuk, Romanian Minister of Environment, Water and Forestry Mircea Feket, as well as acting. Bulgaria’s Minister of Environment and Water Petar Dimitrov exchanged available information and coordinated further actions.
At the same time, only after the weather conditions have improved will it be possible to discuss the acquisition of high-quality satellite images necessary for situational analysis and more detailed modeling.
The minister named the pollution of coastal ecosystems and the risk of an oil film reaching other areas of the Crimean coast as the main threats.
According to the press service of the department, an appeal has been prepared to the Secretariat of the Commission for the Protection of the Black Sea from Pollution with a report on the incident and a proposal to call an extraordinary meeting of the commission and conduct a independent analysis of the state of waters, bottom sediments and the marine ecosystem. Also, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Infrastructure, an appeal was prepared to the relevant conventions of the UN, UNEP, UNESCO, the European Union, and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Meanwhile, the defenders of Anapa are independently eliminating the consequences of the tanker accident. According to the Russian Telegram channel ASTRA, volunteers spent the whole day cleaning the beach in Anapa.
The stench on the beach was unbearable. Therefore, some of the volunteers felt sick – now they did not know about the smell and did not bring masks with them.
Gasoline oil contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, many of which are proven carcinogens. Inhalation of fuel oil vapors irritates the respiratory tract, causes coughing, shortness of breath and can lead to bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Fuel oil particles that enter the lungs can cause fibrosis and other chronic diseases. Direct contact with fuel oil leads to dermatitis, eczema and other skin diseases. Some components of gasoline oil have neurotoxic properties that affect the nervous system. This can manifest as headache, dizziness, weakness and other neurological symptoms.
Let us remind you that the third tanker in the series Volgoneftloaded with fuel oil, sent a distress signal near the port of Kavkaz on the Black Sea. There was a cargo leak on the ship
As you know, on December 15, two tankers, Volgoneft-212 And Volgoneft-239, fell into the Kerch Strait.
Let’s add that after the crash, fuel oil from tankers washed up on the coast of Krasnodar Territory – the beaches turned black from fuel oil.
Source: korrespondent
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