Virgin.net: Oil project 'threatens Gray Whales': "The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced that the environmental impact assessment for Shell's mammoth oil and gas project at Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East has been approved.": Posted Thursday 15 December 2005

An oil and gas project to be part-funded by UK taxpayers, threatens the feeding grounds of the last 100 Western Gray Whales, a leading environmental group has warned.

Friends of the Earth said the move looks set to go ahead following the controversial approval of an environmental impact assessment.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced that the environmental impact assessment for Shell's mammoth oil and gas project at Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East has been approved.


 

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