Russia’s Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) has assessed the cost of environmental damage at Lake Umbozero in the country’s northwest Murmansk region as a result of contamination last summer following anomalous flooding allegedly by apatite mining subsidiaries of PhosAgro and Acron Group, respectively JSC Apatit and JSC Northwestern Phosphorus Co. (NWPC).
The natural resources’ directorate calculated the cost of the damage at over RUB5 million (approximately $68 million at current exchange rates), according to an Interfax report, citing the Baltic-Arctic interregional directorate of Rosprirodnadzor.
Acron Group had not responded to Green Markets’ enquiries for comment by press time.