Siberian Oil Spill Leads Russia's Putin To Declare an Emergency in the Arctic
At a Glance A collapsed tank at a power plant dumped 20,000 tons of oil into an Arctic river.The oil turned a 7.5-mile stretch of the Ambarnaya River crimson.Russian President Putin has ordered an investigation. Some 20,000 tons of diesel fuel that spilled from a power plant storage facility in Siberia could cause more than $13 million in damage to fish and other resources, a wildlife expert says. Russia's President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency after the oil...