Environmental Pollution Above Permitted Standards While Carrying Out Oil Operations: Problems of Responsibility and Damage Assessments in Kazakhstan
Article from: OGEL 2 (2010), in Kazakhstan
Introduction
In the course of carrying out oil operations, harmful substances are produced, which pollute both the atmosphere and underground waters and through them the soil and vegetation. Together with the considerable quantity of oil passing through the water layer, accompanying gas and drilling waste are extracted. Despite legislation prohibiting the burning of released gas at the end of 2004, a temporary moratorium on legal action has been in effect until now. In the process of oil exploration, hard particles pass into the atmosphere, such as sulphurous anhydride, carbon oxides, ...