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Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales

Posted on October 03, 2008

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 the country.Last year, Russian authorities gave Exxon the green light to build a pipeline across a lagoon on Sakhalin Island that is a crucial feeding ground for the world's last surviving colony of Western Gray Whales.Read more of this story ...

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