Sakhalin gas project under fire
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Russian regulators want to block a $20bn oil and gas project led by Shell because of environmental concerns.
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Russia's state environmental agency said it had launched a legal challenge to work at Sakhalin-2, a massive oil and gas project led by British group Shell, as efforts continued by state-owned Gazprom to obtain a stake in the project.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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Russia's environmental regulator said Tuesday it had filed suit seeking to revoke approval for a $20 billion international oil project led by Royal Dutch Shell on the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
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Oil major Royal Dutch Shell is on the brink of a deal to bring Russian gas monopoly Gazprom into the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project, a spokesman said on Sunday.
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A proposal to build the world's largest offshore wind power plant in Nantucket Sound is pitting environmentalists against opponents who foresee it as a blight.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  is in  discussions with Russia&#39;s Gazprom  about the sale of  gas from the next phase of Sakhalin-1, Robert Olsen, chairman  and production director at Exxon Mobil said on Tuesday.
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) CEO Jeroen  van der Veer met Gazprom  chief Alexei Miller on  Friday in Moscow to discuss admitting the Russian gas monopoly  to the Sakhalin-2 project, a Gazprom official said.
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A Romanian oil firm says one of its rigs stationed in the Gulf has come under fire from Iranian troops.
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A Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese vessel in disputed waters Wednesday, killing a fisherman and prompting a strong protest from Tokyo. Moscow urged Japanese boats to stay out of its waters, the Japanese government said.
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In his harshest criticism of the Kremlin to date, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the billionaire businessman who founded Russia&#39;s largest oil producer, Yukos, accused the
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A consortium led by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. should halt operations and delay further development of oil and gas fields near gray whale feeding grounds off Russia's far-eastern Sakhalin island, an independent study recommended Wednesday.
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Russia will not halt Shell's Sakhalin gas-and-oil project while a new environmental probe takes place.
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JAPAN lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday, claiming that a Chinese submarine had entered its territorial waters. Japanâs navy has been on alert since Wednesday when the submarine was first spotted off the island of Okinawa.
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Ruling bloc and opposition lawmakers Thursday criticized the government&#39;s slow response to a mystery submarine that intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters the previous day.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 11--THE ACREAGE -- The prospect of putting the first gas station in The Acreage has erupted into a bitter culture clash over the character of this western community.