Serious mining pollution A river in Russia turned blood red

2016-09-19 「 941 words / 2 minute 」
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俄罗斯环境检查部门正在调查诺里尔斯克市镍业工业园的一条河流变成血红色的原因。
Russian environmental inspectors are trying to establish why a river near the Norilsk Nickel industrial has turned blood-red.
在俄罗斯社交网络上,达尔迪堪河触目惊心的图片被广泛转发。
Dramatic pictures of the discoloured Daldykan river have been posted widely on Russian media.
官方媒体《俄罗斯报》 报道称,河水变色有可能是一条输送废弃铜镍浓缩物的管道发生渗漏引起的。
The government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta says a leaking slurry pipeline carrying waste copper-nickel concentrate could be to blame.
诺里尔斯克镍业公司是世界最大的镍和钯的生产商。
Norilsk Nickel is the world's largest nickel and palladium producer.
早在苏联时代,其巨大的熔炉设备就已建在了西伯利亚克拉斯诺雅尔斯克地区的泰梅尔半岛上。
Its vast furnaces were built on the Taimyr Peninsula, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, in the Soviet era.
该矿业公司的一套叫做Nadezhda的生产设备就建在达尔迪堪河附近。不过该公司管理人员表示,他们并不清楚工厂导致了河流污染。
The mining group has a production facility called Nadezhda by the Daldykan river. But company officials said they were not aware of any river pollution from the plant.