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4. Information on other industrial emissions. 



Emissions from other industrial activities may represent a bigger threat to the arctic environment as a 

 whole than that listed under nuclear wastes, although the latter is a matter of serious concern. 

 Information on industrial emissions form the former Soviet Arctic is still not very spesific.but the 

 following may represent a start and is sufficient for a serious concern : 



• Annually 716.000 tons of toxic emissions are released into the air on the Kola Peninsula leading 

 to deforestation spreading by one kilometer each year. Vegetation in neighbouring states are 

 already affected and will be increasingly so. 



• Emissions by area ( all on the Kola peninsula only ): 



- Nikel : 280.000 tons of S02, nickel, heavy metals and dustjiquid wastes into a lake that is 

 leaking into arctic waters, 



- Apatity/Kirovsk: 62.000 tons of S02. wastes stored on land 



- Munmansk : 65.000 tons of S02 and dust, several leakages to the sea 



- Monchegorsk : 240.000 tons of S02, heavy metals discharged into a lake' 



- Olenogorsk ; 20.000 tons of S02, 11 mill, tons of waste to be disposed of every year 



- Kovdor : 1 6.000 tons of S02, 1 m ill. tons of other wastes 



- Kandalaksja : 26.000 tons of S02. obsolete technology 



• Norilsk, east to the river Jenisej in Siberia, is a major mining and industrial city and a heavy 

 polluter of the Arctic: 



- 2,4 mill, tons of S02 released every year and the toxic clouds are drifting to most of the Arctic 



- About 250.000 tons of metals are released every year 



- 90 days a year the air is so toxic that the children has to be kept indoors, severe health damages 

 are reported 



- trees and vegetaion killed by S02 and heavy metal in an enormous area that is increasing 

 annually ( mostly from Bellona information ) 



5. The Arctic Environment - Selected References. 



In addition to the rather spesific information given above, you may wish to get an overview of the 

 arctic environment in general. The following publications may serve that purpose : 



• The State of the Arctic Envirorunent Reports 



Rovaniemi 1991, 405 p. 



This volume presents six spesific state of the environment reports: 



- Acidification in the Arctic Countries 



- Heavy Metals 



- Underwater Noise 



- Oil Pollution 



• Organochlorines 



- Radioactivity in the Arctic Region 



This is probably the most authoritative and comprehensive overview of the state of the arctic 

 environment. 



• . Jaworowski, Zbigniew 



Pollution of the Norwegian Arctic : A Review 

 Oslo 1989, 93 p. 

 Although some attention is given to the Norwegian Arctic, the author reports on all the Arctic. 



