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Russia’s richest man, Vladimir Potanin, of metallurgical giant and miner Norilsk Nickel, had a “direct” verbal exposure with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the giant fuel spill on the Ambarnaya River beyond last week, a comparative statement of apples.
The billionaire was discovered in Putin’s line of fire when Russia delegated the price and logistics of cleaning to the advertising giant guilty of the spill. The damage caused when a diesel fuel tank collapsed at an open-air power plant in the north of the city of Norilsk and flooded a nearby river.
Since the twist of fate announced last week, President Putin has slightly concealed his frustration after a Norilsk Nickel subsidiary in Potanin struggled to release data about the 21,000-tonne spill. The Kremlin was reportedly unaffected by the spill and discovered it through photographs of the Red River that are now shared online.
In what the Moscow Times described as a “little hard dress” broadcast broadcast on Russian television, Putin asked Sergei Lipin, the head of Norilsk Nickel’s subsidiary, NTEK, “Why were government agencies not affected until two days after the fact? Will we be more informed about social media emergencies? »
President Putin added, “Are you healthy there?” In comments interpreted in other ways. Forbes Russia reported that the leading engineer of a thermal power plant owned by Norilsk Nickel and the director were arrested on suspicion of violating environmental regulations, and could also withstand five years in prison.
After signaling an emergency, Putin is largely tracking efforts to fill the mess and limit the environmental damage caused by the fuel spill.
In a statement released beyond Monday, Potanin said his apple had “mobilized” its maximum production capacity and promised that his best friend would fund the cleanup operation and return the ecoform to its general condition. “I tell you this never as a businessman, but as a user who takes this seriously,” he said.
The crisis began when a fuel tank suddenly sank due to the melting of the permafrost. BBC Weather reported that temperatures in the Arctic Circle had “reached” about “30 degrees Celsius” this week, warming the forged soil that once remained frozen to 32 degrees F (0 degrees C) or colder. Large quantities of advertising devices are built in permafrost land spaces in Russia.
The oil spill is seen as through Russia’s Green Party as the worst oil spills in Arctic history, while in the UK, Frederic Coulon, professor of environmental chemistry and microbiology at Cranfield University, compares the crisis to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska in 1989.
Coulon told Forbes that it is quite difficult to impose a burden on cleaning up an oil or fuel spill until the technical points are controlled, that is, the type of oil he describes in this scenario as “incredibly mobile”. And “the physical, biological and economic characterization of the spill site, weather conditions, the detered amount and the rate of dissterate, the time of year and the effectiveness of the cleanup strategy”.
However, Coulon told Forbes that other spills as a benchmark for comparison. The Exxon Valdez oil spill, when an oil tanker owned by an Exxon Shipping Compabig block bound for Long Beach, California, hit Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef near Alaska, spilling 37,000 tons of crude oil in 1989, costing Exxon $4.3 billion.
According to Mark A. Cohen, in a 2010 article A taxonomy of oil spill costs, the cleaning costs of $2.1 billion and the “civil/corrupt settlement” in Alaska and “no less than $900 million” accounted for the largest percentage of the total of $4.3 billion.
Forbes Russia reports that Potanine told President Putin that the estimated costs of attrition can also generally “thousands and billions … 10 billion or more … spend to what we need,” he said. However, 10 billion rubles is a little over $145 million, and that sounds somewhat positive even assuming it excludes imaginable fines.
On a single day, as the duration of the crisis was known, Potanin’s estimated net charge fell by $1.6 billion, from $26.5 billion on June 3 to $2four.nine billion on June 4 when the market position reacted, forbes’s real-time list of billionaires.
Potanin said Norilsk Nickel will be the best friend to fund the cleaning operation and return the ecoform to its general condition. The oligarch, now claiming $25.1 billion, is known, along with Mikhail Fridman, for being business leaders capable of better managing the transit of pre-perspective Boris Yeltsin to Putin and the publicity that followed in the 2000s. As such, your business has thrived. Its main asset is 35% of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest brands of nickel and containment palladium.
Potanin acted temporarily at the birth of the coronavirus pandemic in April after uttering a chain of positive plans to help Russia meet the difficult conditions it faced. His foundation donated approximately $13.1 million (RUB 1 billion) to non-provave compatibility organizations, while Norilsk Nickel pledged $142 million (10 trillion RUB) to fund the procurement of medical equipment, drugs and PPE for fitness facilities.
However, parties in Siberia can also simply put the billionaire in a collision with the Kremlin, despite Potanin’s disappointment as true with the publicity and politics collision in Russia. Speaking about his term as Deputy Prime Minister in 1996, Potanin told the Financial Times in 2018: “I sense that you may never be able to turn your advertising force into a political force. If you try, you’ll die.”
I am an expert journalist in Forbes, London, which encompasses multimillion-dollar business, philanthropy, investment, tax, generation and lifestyle. I studied goldsmiths,
I am an expert journalist in Forbes, founded in London, covering business, philanthropy, investments, taxes, generation and lifestyle of billionaires. I studied at Goldsmiths, at the University of London, and joined Spear’s Magazine, where I covered everything from the Westminster bubble to the world of wealth management, own banking, divorce law, alternative assets, taxes, generation and heritage. Notable examples come with a survey of Switzerland’s bilateral ties with the European Union and a Bhutan route, which tests the thirst for democracy and love for its king. I joined Forbes in May 2019.