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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 company’s [...]

 
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 year research [...]

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 [...]

The Komi Republic court has ruled that Gazprom acted illegally in taking land that had belonged to a reindeer herding group and ordered the company return the land and pay damages. Gazprom had ignored an earlier court ruling to do just that, and consequently, it is unclear whether it will obey. The reindeer herders’ case [...]

«Я не вижу альтернативы ЯНАО, который дает 87% российского и 20% мирового газа, и на 50 лет вперед Ямал будет определять развитие газовой промышленности, как нашей страны, так и мира в целом»
Just in case you were in any doubt that Gazprom, its affiliates and other Russian oil and gas folks are prioritising the Yamal Peninsula, home to the largest area [...]

The story from Tyumenskaya News posted in the Reindeer Blog yesterday reflects an earlier “oil and gas and reindeer and good news” story that appeared in Rosbalt Nord a few weeks ago entitled Ямальские газовики подарят оленям комфорт / Yamal gas industry gives comfort to reindeer. The article quoted Sergei Khudi (who attended the EALAT [...]