Reindeer Blog

The new railway line connecting the Yamal Peninsula with the rest of the Russian railway grid has been declared open to regular traffic. Regular operation of the 572 km long railroad to its terminal point – the Karskaya station – was launched in February 15. The line connects major regional installations like the Bovanenkovo gas [...]

Interesting article and superb photography displaying Nenets herders coping with oil and gas installations on their migration routes in the ‘Russian Photo Blog‘. The photographer spent quite some time with herders that migrat through the Bovanekovo filed and was also allowed access to the contstruction site itself. View all the photos here and the article [...]

The two Shtokman partners to expand cooperation through a sci-tech cooperation program. Today within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2010 Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Peter Mellbye, Executive Vice President of Statoil signed an Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation. Pursuant to the Agreement, the parties will [...]

By Amie Ferris-Rotman,  67 N LATITUDE, 71 E LONGITUDE, Russia, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Nenets tribespeople of Russia’s frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge — under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for [...]

(Source: BarentsObserver) Russian energy major Gazprom will postpone the launch of the Bovanenkovo field in Yamal until 2012, a high-ranking company representative confirmed today. Aleksandr Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the company’s Management Committee today said that the launch of the field will be postponed from 2011 as originally planned to 2012. The reason is the [...]

  Строительство газопровода “Бованенково-Ухта” (заказчик ЗАО “Ямалгазинвест”), начатое в 2008 году на территории Республики Коми, сопровождается грубейшими нарушениями законодательства, и не только экологическими. Такие претензии строителям газопровода выдвигает местная общественность и даже работники предприятия, сообщает БНКоми.

Газпром приступает к выполнению обязательств по компенсационным мероприятиям при освоении месторождений полуострова Ямал. В этом году в рамках заключенного с администрацией ЯНАО договора ООО «Газпром добыча Надым» выделяет на строительство жилья, объектов социально-культурного и хозяйственного назначения для коренных малочисленных народов Севера 2 млрд. 689 млн 90 тыс. рублей.

A proposal on a new convention on cross-border reindeer grazing between Norway and Sweden is now completed. The two countries’ negotiating delegations finished their work in Stockholm 24 February, and the negotiation results are now submitted to Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Norway and the Agriculture Ministry in Sweden for further follow-up.

Representatives of research, reindeer herding, local authorities and industry contributed to a ’declaration of coexistence’ between reindeer nomads and the oil and gas industry in the Russian North…. «Илебц» Декларация сосуществования коренных народов и нефте/газодобывающей промышленности в Ненецком, Ямало-Ненецком автономных округах и других территориях Севера России The declaration is among the results of a four [...]

Russia Today have a short video that features a reindeer herding family in the village of Varyogan, Khanty Mansisk, Russia. Khanty and Mansi peoples are ancient reindeer herding peoples, but their traditional livelohoods have come under a great deal of pressure from development, most particularly the oil and gas industry, which has been active for [...]