Green Options » Sakhalin http://greenoptions.com/tag/sakhalin Posts tagged 'Sakhalin' Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:05:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:05:45 +0000 Andrew Williams http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/ Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for threatening critically endangered whales in the far east of the country.

Last year, Russian authorities gave Exxon the green light to build a pipeline across a lagoon on Sakhalin Island that is a crucial feeding ground for the world’s last surviving colony of Western Gray Whales.

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