{"id":3659,"date":"2008-10-03T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2008-10-03T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T18:05:45","slug":"exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2008\/10\/whale-tail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3660\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2008\/10\/whale-tail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><strong>Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for <a title=\"save the whale\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20081003\/sc_afp\/russiausoilenvironmentspecies\" target=\"_blank\">threatening critically endangered whales<\/a> in the far east of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Russian authorities gave Exxon the green light to <strong>build a pipeline across a lagoon on Sakhalin Island <\/strong> that is a crucial feeding ground for the <strong>world&#8217;s last surviving colony of Western Gray Whales<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Moscow, Ekaterina Gretchuchkina, chief lawyer for Russian environment group <strong>Rodnik<\/strong>, said, &#8220;We have decided to challenge in court the positive findings of the state experts.&#8221; The NGO has filed the lawsuit at a Moscow district court along with pressure group <strong>Sakhalin Environment Watch <\/strong>and an association of <strong>indigenous people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows <strong>months of behind the scenes wrangling<\/strong> over the future of the disputed project. Earlier this year, WWF sent a letter to Russia&#8217;s Natural Resources Minister, Yuri Trutnev, <strong>demanding that the project be halted<\/strong>. This was followed by a joint scientific report from WWF, Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare demanding at the very least that the route of the pipeline be changed.<\/p>\n<p>The report concluded that there were <strong>only 130 Western Gray Whales surviving worldwide, including only around 20 females able to reproduce<\/strong>. The colony gathers in the area for four months annually to feed and build up crucial fat deposits to help it survive through the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit &#8211; Marshmallow via flickr.com on a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for threatening critically endangered whales in the far east of&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21],"tags":[1719,1720,1721,1722,230,254,1723,1724,1725,1726,1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,127,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1104,369,1744,1745,1040,1746,1033,1747],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales &#8226; 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