Russian Oil Project to Be Vetted for Whale Threat
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A top environmental group said on Thursday it had agreed to probe an oil and gas project led by Royal Dutch/Shell off the Russian far east coast because of fears it threatens endangered whales.
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A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds Friday, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica in a bid to build a potential legal case against whaling for scientific research, the government said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, December 23  - The Russian government appears all set to control 15% of the countryâs oil production, with the state-owned Rosneft purchasing Baikalfinansgroup, the unknown entity which won the weekend auction of Yukos
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Shell's boss is to fly to Moscow for talks with Russia's energy minister over the $22bn Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project.
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Denmark is vying with Russia in a race to map the Arctic seabed and stake a claim to its resources.
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Russia will file a claim to the gigantic mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW  - The head of Russia's state-owned railway network said Thursday that a Chinese oil company will cover the embattled Yukos oil company's rail transport bills for October, the Interfax news agency reported.
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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said Tuesday his country, Bulgaria and Greece would decide in November whether to build an oil pipeline to bypass the Bosporus strait in exports of Russian crude to the ...
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The Russian government has issued a new threat to strip Yukos oil of its production licenses, the Moscow Times reported Monday. Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said
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The Russian government's assault on oil giant Yukos is a source of concern that could impact foreign investment in the country, a senior International Monetary Fund official warned.
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Environmentalists in Russia are finding an unlikely ally in the Kremlin as it works to stall projects by oil companies on an island unfathomably rich with oil and gas.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds today, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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The head of Russia's state-owned railroad network said Thursday that a Chinese oil company would cover the embattled Yukos oil company's rail transport bills for October, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Russia prepares for the forced auction of a prize oil asset - the main production unit of beleaguered oil giant Yukos.