Days after Muscovite's complained about a strong smell of sulphur wafting through the city, municipal officials have advised residents to don face masks to protect themselves from impurities spewed out from burning woodland in the northeast of the capital. "In connection to the predicted adverse weather conditions, which will lead to accumulation of harmful impurities in the surface layer of the city's air, Moscow is expected to experience a worsening in its ecological situation," the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry said Friday in an online statement. The ministry's statement comes just days after panic threatened to erupt in the city over mysterious fumes that many residents said smelled like rotten eggs and some said caused headaches and dizziness.
While Russia's Emergency Ministry pinned the eggy stench on a hydrogen sulphide spill, Russia's natural resources watchdog said the chemical in question was isopropyl benzene. Both agencies linked the smell to an accident at a Gazprom oil refinery in the south of Moscow, though the company later denied any such accident had taken place.
see article in : Smell in Moscow
INC News, 14/11/2014
No comments:
Post a Comment