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Russian pipeline plan threatens whales: environmental groups
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
MOSCOW (AFP) — A planned oil pipeline off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Russia threatens an entire population of gray whales that feed in the area with extinction, environmental groups said on Thursday.
"The pipeline threatens a small population of Asian gray whales since it crosses diagonally across the Piltunsk lagoon which produces organisms that the animals feed on," Alexei Knizhnikov of WWF in Russia told reporters in Moscow.
Environmental watchdogs WWF, Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare on Thursday presented the natural resources ministry with a scientific report arguing for the route to be changed.
The international consortium led by Exxon and including Russian, Japanese and Indian oil majors that is in charge of the...
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