Military towns polluted the Barents Sea for 45 million RUB
The Federal Service for Environmental Control has demanded that the Ministry of Defence should pay a 45 billion RUB fine as compensation of damages to the environment after having released sewage into the Barents Sea.
After an inspection done in November 2008 the Federal Service for Environmental Control (Rosprirodnadzor) concludes that the federal state unitary enterprise Vodokanal, subordinate to the Ministry of Defence, at ten occasions released sewage from military towns on the Kola Peninsula into the Barents Sea.
Vodokanal is responsible for water supply and water disposal in the closed military towns Polyarny, Skalisty, Vidyayevo and Zaozersk.
