Published: Oct 16, 2006
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 16 October: The cost of making good the environmental damage caused by the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project will be astronomical, between 10bn and 50bn dollars. This estimate was given in a conversation with an ITAR-TASS correspondent by deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor [Russia’s Federal Service for the Regulation of the Use of Natural Resources] Oleg Mitvol, who this month headed an inspection carried out the agency at the facilities of the project’s operator, the Sakhalin Energy company.