That is until you take animal and fish lifes in consideration.

Guys (especially DeNitro and Amberlight) - yes, the BP spill was terrible (we at my law firm sued BP - f/k/a “Beyond Petroleum” or “the environmentally conscious oil company” that bankrolled most of the environmentalist groups aroudn the Gulf Coast), but are you seriously arguing that Russian attitudes towards human life in power generation are as a result of Muscovy’s superior record of environmental concern?
Visit Russia. The only “pro-environment” record of the last four types of government (Romanov, Provisional, Bolshevik, and post Bolshevik)I can think of is the consistent track record of discouraging human life, and even that is balanced out by environmental rapine of the first order (the Chinese Communists were worse, but that’s because they deliberately reduced the country to the edge of starvation back in the day, which lead the population to eat almost all the ground cover, including grass).
I am sure the Czars must have done something nice for the environment, but I cannot think of it offhand, and I’ve spent a lot of time reading Czarist documents [back when I could still sort of read Russian - a long time ago, and never as good as my wife is now, even 30 years after she last read the language]).
It’s Russia. There isn’t a tort system to put a price tag on human life, so unless someone has proteksiya, or access to a foreign tort system or a good death payments clause, there isn’t muchof an incentive to prioritize worker safety. The result is situations like this dam, or, even worse, tens of thousands of brave but ignorant martyrs like those firefighters who hovered in the smoke plume of Chernyobyl to dump sand into the melt-down (which was publicized by Swedish sensors - only party members’ kids were getting iodine, and only in some Bolshevik satrapies in the fallout zone) or the peasant levies that died in huge numbers building Pyotr Bolshoy’s capital on the Gulf of Finland.
Those were just some of the more famous work-related humanitarian disasters … and the environmental toll was not exactly low. The Russian energy sector makes Mexico’s PEMEX seem safe and clean, and PEMEX had a spill that topped BP’s [email protected]#$k all the way back in the 1970s.