A whistleblower has told Sky News he faced pushback when he tried to investigate a huge oil spill in the Arctic. On May 29, a fuel tank burst in Norilsk, northern Russia, spilling 21,000 tonnes of diesel into two nearby rivers. To read more, click here:
The drive from Norilsk airport to the city takes you past mile after mile of crumbling, Soviet-era factories.
On Thursday it appointed Andrey Bougrov, from its senior management board, to the newly-created role of senior vice president for environmental protection. It has a clear environmental strategy, provides regular updates on the status of the spill, and its Twitter feed is filled with climate-related alerts.Biggest ever industrial oil spill in Arctic
"For 80km south of here everything is dead," Mr Ryabinin says,"and for at least 10km in that direction too. Everything here depends on the wind."Immediately after the spill, Mr Ryabinin filmed and took samples from the Daldykan river just a few kilometres from the fuel tank which had leaked. By that point the river was a churning mix of diesel and red sludge dredged up from the riverbed by the force of the leak.
"We set out at night so that the Norilsk Nickel security wouldn't detect us. I say at night, but they've got polar nights there now, north of the Arctic Circle. So it's still light but it's quieter and we managed to go past all the cordons."
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