
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a $2 billion fine paid by metals miner Nornickel after a fuel spill, the country’s worst Arctic environmental disaster, will be used to improve ecology in the region.
The leak of 21,000 tonnes of diesel into rivers and subsoil from a storage tank at Nornickel’s power plant in Siberia last year had angered Putin.
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