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GRAction# 1/04   "Protect Whales and Fishery from Oil Development / Russia"

Jul 3, 2008
Update

 

Environmental Groups Condemn Japanese and French Banks for Financing Sakhalin II Oil and Gas Project in Russia

For Immediate Release: June 17th, 2008

Contact:

Naomi Kanzaki/ Eri Watanabe, Friends of the Earth Japan, +81 3 6907 7217,  ...  (more)


  

Apr 2, 2008
Victory!
Victory! Banks Deny Loans to Sakhalin Oil Project / Russia ?We know very well who has real influence over the banks? and companies? behavior ? it is exactly citizens of the countries where the banks and companies come from. That?s why the active participation of Global Response members was so important and made a significant contribution in the final result. We, on Sakhalin Island, greatly appreciate Global Response?s help. Please say many many thanks to all the members of Global Response!?  ...  (more)


  

Mar 6, 2007
Update
Russian Ecology Watchdog to Check Exxon Sakhalin-1

MOSCOW - Russia plans to start new checks on the Exxon Mobil-led Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project at the end of March, an environmental watchdog official said on Thursday.

Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of the  ...  (more)


  

Dec 28, 2006
Update
Sakhalin II Deal Leaves Shell and Gazprom on the Environmental Hook

For Immediate Release
December 22, 2006

For More Information:

Dmitry Lisitsyn, Sakhalin Environment Watch
+7-4242-74-75-18
sakhalinwatch@yandex.ru

David Gordon, Pacific Environment
+1-415-399-8850 x 301 or +1-510-541-5334
 ...  (more)


  

Sep 27, 2006
Update
FACTBOX - Russia's Environmental Recommendations on Sakhalin
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RUSSIA: September 27, 2006

Russia has ordered a full environmental probe of Royal Dutch Shell's US billion Sakhalin-2 oil and gas development in Russia's Far  ...  (more)


  

Sep 21, 2006
Update
Dear Members of Global Response?s ?Quick Response Network,?

Celebrate this victory in a campaign we launched in January 2004!

For background, see the Global Response action alert and campaign updates  ...  (more)


  

Sep 11, 2006
Update
Russia Agency Sues to Stop Shell Project
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 5, 2006
*Filed at 7:46 a.m. ET*

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's environmental regulator said Tuesday it had filed suit seeking to revoke approval for a billion international oil project led by Royal Dutch Shell  ...  (more)


  

Aug 10, 2006
Update
Russia?s Lawsuit Against Shell is Consistent With Environmental Groups? Claims

For Immediate Release: August 7, 2006
Contact:
Dmitry Lisitsyn, Sakhalin Environment Watch
+7 4242 747518 or +7 914 757 0076, sakhalinwatch@yandex.ru
Igor Chestin, WWF-Russia, +7 095 727 0939, ...  (more)


  

Aug 4, 2006
Update
Continued Erosion Violations on Shell?s Sakhalin II Project

For Immediate Release: August 1, 2006
Contact: Dmitry Lisitsyn, Chairman of Sakhalin Environment Watch
Tel.: +7 4242 747518 or +7 914 757 0076
E-mail: sakhalinwatch@yandex.ru
Doug Norlen, Pacific Environment, +1 (202) 465-1650,  ...  (more)


  

Jul 18, 2006
Update
Photographs Reveal New and Ongoing Violations on Russian Pipeline

EBRD demands not met by Shell-led Sakhalin II project

Contact: Sara Moore, Pacific Environment, +1 415 399.8850, #303
Doug Norlen, Pacific Environment, +1 202 465.1650
 ...  (more)


  

May 24, 2006
Update

LONDON - A consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc has not fully complied with environmental guidelines when laying pipelines in east Russia, documents showed on Sunday.

The consortiumdenied, however, that it misled the public and potential lenders who are mulling US billion to US billion in loans for the project.

 ...  (more)


  

May 18, 2006
Update

Sakhalin II PR push omits impacts on critically endangered whales

16 May 2006

Contact: Doug Norlen, Responsible Finance Program Director, Ph: +1.202.465.1650 or dnorlen@pacificenvironment.org.  ...  (more)


  

May 3, 2006
Update
GENEVA - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should not make loans to Shell's giant energy project off Russia's Pacific coast without more measures to protect the environment, WWF said on Friday.

The conservation group said ice and poor weather around the proposed Sakhalin oil and gas operation would make it nearly impossible to clean up any spills for half  ...  (more)


  

Mar 30, 2006
Update
Shell Bln Sakhalin Unit Criticized by Ecologists

February 28th, 2006

By Eduard Gismatullin

Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its partners in a billion Russian  ...  (more)


  

Dec 27, 2005
Update

EBRD Conceals Report on Controversial Sakhalin Project

Contact: Doug Norlen, Pacific Environment, +1 (202) 465-1650
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, +44 20 7338 6000

Press Release: November 23, 2005.

(Second posting, due to error in the website address below.)

Leaked photos of pipeline construction available at  ...  (more)


  

Dec 27, 2005
Update
*European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The EBRD will consult the public before deciding whether to provide financing for the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company to develop the world's biggest oil and gas project, off the coast of Sakhalin Island in the Russian far east.

The EBRD considers  ...  (more)


  

Nov 17, 2005
Update

* Philip Merrill has left Exim Bank. Send emails to the Chairman and Acting President of Exim Bank, James H. Lambright; same address as before, with this email: james.lambright@exim.gov .

* There are newer details now know concerning project impacts. Before groups were demanding various changes in the  ...  (more)


  

Jul 28, 2005
Update

Celebrate some good news with our campaign partners on Sakhalin Island, Russia!

Since January 2004, Global Response has participated in an international campaign to stop Shell Oil company from endangering the Pacific Gray Whale and the wild salmon fishery of Sakhalin Island (for  ...  (more)


  

May 31, 2005
Update
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