Volunteers criticize government report on absence of fuel oil emissions in Anapa

From July 25 to 29, no new fuel oil emissions were recorded on the coast of Anapa, the authorities said. Volunteers, in turn, claim that emissions continue.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on July 27, the Kuban operational headquarters reported on the collection of 266 bags of fuel oil from the seabed in one day. Earlier, two of the three sections of the sand rampart that protected the coast from fuel oil emissions were dismantled. Vacationers, despite the ban, visit the beaches where the sand is being cleaned, the head of the work said.

Monitoring groups from July 25 to 29 did not record new fuel oil emissions on the coast of Anapa, the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory reported today. At the same time, the authorities noted that “minor local emissions” are possible on the Dzhemete beach, where work is underway to collect fuel oil from the bottom near the shore and replace protective nets at the water's edge.

The data on the absence of new emissions was refuted by volunteers working on cleaning the coast in the village of Blagoveshchenskaya and on the Bugaz Spit. “You stand there with a shovel and “either the skis don’t move, or the Bugaz Spit and Blagoveshchenskaya have ceased to be Anapa ...”, - they commented on the operational headquarters report in their Telegram channel “Nets, sieve, shovel”.

“You row and row and it seems like a drop in the ocean. And no one has cancelled new emissions to the same places,” the volunteers said in another message.

The Krasnodar Krai government announced this morning that Anapa hotels will be reimbursed for part of the costs incurred due to the cancellation of reservations amid the environmental disaster. The decision was made after a meeting between Governor Veniamin Kondratyev and entrepreneurs working in the health resort accommodation sector.

“We decided to reimburse hotels for part of the costs in connection with the cancellation of reservations, as well as for the payment of salaries, utilities and rent, advertising costs, maintenance and repair of equipment, and taxes. 50 million rubles were allocated from the regional reserve fund for such subsidies. The measure immediately showed its relevance, we have already received dozens of applications,” the press service of the Kuban government quotes Kondratyev as saying.

On December 15, 2024, two tankers with fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait, which led to catastrophic environmental consequences. Details can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" reference "Fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait". Materials about the consequences of the fuel oil spill have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".

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