Barbaric attitude to the nature of Russian oil companies

According to modest estimates of experts, no less than 1% of Russia's annual oil production, or 5 million tons annually, pollutes the environment.

Which is equivalent to one deep-sea major spill in two months. Oil, seeping through rusty pipelines and old wells, pollutes the soil, destroys all plants around it, and alienates the habitat of mammals and birds. Half a million tons enter the rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean each year, upsetting the delicate ecological balance in those waters. Oil spills in Russia are far less significant than the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea disasters, but they are more numerous than in any oil-producing country, including civil war-waging Nigeria. According to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, 10 to 15% of Russia's oil ends up in rivers, and the Russian Ministry of Economic Development estimates that last year alone, oil spills reached 20 million tons per year.
In 2009, Nigeria, which produces one-fifth of the world's oil, as well as Russia, spilled 110,000 tons, due to an insurgent attack on oil pipelines.
The United States, the world's third largest oil producer, had 341 pipeline ruptures in 2010 (Russia had 18,000 over the same period). According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the spill amounted to 17,600 tons of oil. Between 2001 and 2010, spills averaged 14,900 tons per year.
Canada, which produces oil under the same harsh conditions as Russia, is nowhere near the scale of Russia's disaster. Only eleven pipeline ruptures were reported in Canada last year (the average leakage was 7,700 tons per year )
In Norway, the oil spill hasn't risen above 3,000 tons per year in the last decade.
Now that Russian companies are entering the Arctic to develop the vast oil and gas-rich waters, scientists fear that Russia, with its outdated technology, will turn the north into an environmental disaster zone.

According to the foreign press for ForTrader.ru