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- Title
Experts reject Russian oil pipeline route.
- Authors
Ness, Erik
- Abstract
The article discusses the rejection by expert of the route of the oil pipeline planned by Transneft, Russia's state-owned oil company, as it passes within 800 m of Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with more than 3000 endemic species and terminates across the Amur Bay from Vladivostok. The Amur region is another hotspot of Russian biodiversity and is home to the remaining Amur leopards. Experts from Russia's Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) made public their rejection of the route because of its potential danger to the lake. Russian President Vladimir Putin characterized the resistance to the pipeline as unpatriotic.
- Subjects
VLADIVOSTOK (Russia); RUSSIA; PIPELINES; PETROLEUM industry; INDUSTRIAL pollution; BIODIVERSITY; AQUATIC biodiversity; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; OAO AK Transneft; PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
- Publication
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2006, Vol 4, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1540-9295
- Publication type
Article