diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d6555c95..0cd5fcd9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1158,7 +1158,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "chain 0.1.0",
  "display_derive 0.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "elastic-array 0.6.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "log 0.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "lru-cache 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "parking_lot 0.4.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "primitives 0.1.0",
diff --git a/storage/Cargo.toml b/storage/Cargo.toml
index 82669449..650df00e 100644
--- a/storage/Cargo.toml
+++ b/storage/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ authors = ["Parity Technologies <admin@parity.io>"]
 [dependencies]
 elastic-array = "0.6"
 parking_lot = "0.4"
-log = "0.4"
 bit-vec = "0.4"
 lru-cache = "0.1"
 primitives = { path = "../primitives" }
diff --git a/storage/src/lib.rs b/storage/src/lib.rs
index 5ba5a4e8..a58d1173 100644
--- a/storage/src/lib.rs
+++ b/storage/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 extern crate elastic_array;
 extern crate parking_lot;
-#[macro_use]
-extern crate log;
 extern crate bit_vec;
 extern crate lru_cache;
 #[macro_use]