EALÁT researcher Ellen Inga Turi and Lars Miguel Utsi will be returning to Nadym this weekend to take part in a three week spring migration with Nenets herders with whom connections were made during the recent trip to Nadym. The pair will join the migration in Yaru Dei and travel North across the Ob river [...]
According to Reuters and other business sources, Gazprom has budgeted $1 bn for investments into the Yamal peninsula. Production at the Yamal Peninsula is due to offset the decline in Gazprom’s traditional West Siberian gas province from the start of next decade. GAZPROM is expected to invest $1.3 bn this year out of a total [...]
When one thinks of oil and gas development in Arctic Russia, one company springs to mind: the ubiquitous GAZPROM . There are others though - Novatek, LUKoil and TNK-BP for example and they are clamouring for access to Gazprom pipelines, particularly as experts think that GAZPROM might have problems fulfilling its foreign gas commitments in [...]
At the launch of the Canadian IPY, Minister for Northern Affairs Jim Prentice said “elders and other knowledge keepers” can make a big contribution to research and that many researchers have been encouraged to integrate Western science and traditional aboriginal knowledge into their polar research according to a March 9 report in the Nunatsiaq News. [...]
Yamal is not the only place with reindeer where herders have to come to terms with Oil and Gas development. On the Eastern coast of Russia is the controversial Sakhalin II development - a massive LNG development that was signed up in murky circumstances ten years ago when Russia was bankrupt. Now, Russia has regained its [...]
The Arctic Science Summit Week is happening from March 14-20, 2007 in Hanover, New Hampshire. Hosted by both the Institute of Arctic Studies, within the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL). ICR supporters Bob Corell [...]
New photo galleries and video is now available online at the EALÁT website. There are several short video clips that are are available for viewing on YouTube - see the Vod:Pod below..
The ICR team made it safely back from Nadym. The meeting was a success, despite the fact nearly everyone came down with fever..perhaps because they were staying in a Russian sanitorium 40 km outside the town of Nadym? First pictures are here
The ICR team and many Ealat participants have arrived safely in Nadym, via a chartered plane from Murmansk this evening. Project leaders Svein Mathiesen and Ole Henrik Magga were in Paris this morning for the official opening of the International Polar Year, with Svein taking a gruelling route via Moscow seeing him arrive in Nadym [...]
And the shortest route from Kautokeino to Kirkenes is…via Oslo? Apparently. Below is the tracking route of a passport mailed with Posten from Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino to Kirkenes.
01.03.07
10.09
ANKOMMET POSTKONTOR
9915 KIRKENES (KIRKENES)
01.03.07
06.54
REGISTRERT OMLASTINGSTERMINAL
0971 OSLO
22.02.07
14.15
INNLEVERT POSTKONTOR
9521 KAUTOKEINO
Lesson learned?
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