In recent days, thousands of marine animals have been found stranded on the shores of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The cause: a pollution slick, the origin of which is still mysterious.
It all started last month when surfers in the region started reporting stinging eyes. Eight people have since been diagnosed with first degree corneal burns. A few days ago, the transparent waters of the peninsula also began to shroud in foam and seem to give off a strange odor. Finally, numerous testimonies have reported the deaths of thousands of animals, octopuses, starfish and other sea creatures, most of them living in the depths.
Since then, local media and environmental associations have stepped up to the plate, speculating on the origin of this pollution slick which now stretches forty kilometers long and thirty to one hundred meters wide.
This unfortunate new episode obviously made the Russian President Vladimir Putin react who, last June, had not at all appreciated the late declaration of an oil spill in Siberia which, at the time, had spilled thousands of tons of diesel in the Ambarnaïa river. The president therefore quickly demanded an investigation.
For his part, the governor of the region, Vladimir Solodov, vowed on Instagram that it would be “transparent” and that any official who tried to cover up the scale of the disaster would be fired.
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