The British lawyer who represented Greenpeace in the battle with Shell over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform has been hired by Russia to prepare a case against the Anglo-Dutch oil company over problems at its development project on Sakhalin Island in the country’s Far East.
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December 15, 2006
There is nothing funny about work in Arctic. And a group of Russians at an Arctic weather station felt it on their own back. They spent two nerve-wracking days hiding in an attic while waiting for permission from Moscow to shoot a hungry polar bear rampaging through their house.
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Peter Hambro Mining said Russian authorities did not find any material ecological breach in its mining projects during their initial inspections, AFX News reported Wednesday.
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December 14, 2006The head of Russia’s environment watchdog has proposed firing his deputy, who led a recent crackdown on a vast Shell-run hydrocarbon project in Russia, a source in the federal service said Thursday, RIA Novosti agency repots.
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A Russian court on Wednesday started hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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A Persian cat saved a family in Saransk, in the Russian Republic of Mordovia, by waking up his owner on smelling burning plastic, a local emergencies’ spokesman said Wednesday.
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December 13, 2006
Weather forecasters have so far been unable to explain December’s unusual warm spell, the head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring said Wednesday.
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Russia has set a deadline of February 1 for Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project to repair environmental damage or face the loss of its operating licences, the RIA Novosti news agency reported citing a Russian federal agency.
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Russia will carry over 300 kilos of enriched uranium from a Soviet-era nuclear research reactor in eastern Germany back to Russia, the Reuters news agency reported Thursday.
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December 7, 2006
Russian prosecutors have uncovered more than 100 violations of environmental, labor and migration law at a giant oil and liquefied natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Russian island of Sakhalin, according to an report Wednesday.
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December 6, 2006
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