採礦污染嚴重 俄羅斯一條河流變血紅色

Russian environmental inspectors are trying to establish why a river near the Norilsk Nickel industrial has turned blood-red.

俄羅斯環境檢查部門正在調查諾里爾斯克市鎳業工業園的一條河流變成血紅色的原因。

Dramatic pictures of the discoloured Daldykan river have been posted widely on Russian media.

在俄羅斯社交網絡上，達爾迪堪河觸目驚心的圖片被廣泛轉發。

The government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta says a leaking slurry pipeline carrying waste copper-nickel concentrate could be to blame.

官方媒體《俄羅斯報》 報道稱，河水變色有可能是一條輸送廢棄銅鎳濃縮物的管道發生滲漏引起的。

Norilsk Nickel is the world's largest nickel and palladium producer.

諾里爾斯克鎳業公司是世界最大的鎳和鈀的生產商。

Its vast furnaces were built on the Taimyr Peninsula, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, in the Soviet era.

早在蘇聯時代，其巨大的熔爐設備就已建在了西伯利亞克拉斯諾雅爾斯克地區的泰梅爾半島上。

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.

該礦業公司的一套叫做Nadezhda的生產設備就建在達爾迪堪河附近。不過該公司管理人員表示，他們並不清楚工廠導致了河流污染。