MMC Norilsk Nickel (MNOD)
11-Feb-2021 / 18:45 MSK
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PRESS RELEASE
Public Joint Stock Company «Mining and Metallurgical Company «NORILSK NICKEL»(PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel , Nornickel or the Company )
NORNICKEL RECEIVES THE DEMAND OF THE KRASNOYARSK KRAI
FOR COMPENSATION OF DAMAGE TO WILDLIFE RESOURCES
Moscow, February 11, 2021 - Nornickel, the world s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, notes that the Ministry of Environment and Rational Environmental Management of the Krasnoyarsk Krai sent to JSC Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (NTEC, part of Norilsk Nickel Group) a pre-trial demand for the voluntary compensation of damage to the wildlife resources caused by the diesel fuel spill from storage facility № 5 at Heat and Power Plant № 3 (HPP-3) in Norilsk in the amount of RUB 494 million (approx. USD 7 million).
Norilsk Nickel receives regional authorities claim for environmental damages
MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Norilsk Nickel has received a claim to compensate damages to fauna from the Krasnoyarsk Region, the Russian mining and metals company says on Thursday.
Read also Norilsk Nickel informs that the Ministry of Environment and Rational Nature Use of the Krasnoyarsk Region has sent to NTEK (the Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company, a member of the Norilsk Nickel Group) a claim for voluntary compensation of damages inflicted to fauna objects, related to the diesel fuel spill from Storage No. 5 of the Combined Heat and Power Plant 3 of Norilsk City, amounting to 494 mln rubles (about $7 mln at the current exchange rate), the company says.