Another Oil Terminal for Nenets Autonomous Okrug? В НАО создадут базовый погрузочный порт СМК
According to a report in the Barents Observer and Rosbalt Nord, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug proposes to build a new port terminal in Indiga for exports of oil shipments. This is a region of reindeer husbandry for Nenets and Komi herders and it should be remembered that the establishment of an oil terminal in Varandei led to [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under Russia, oil and gas.
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Oil Enriching Nenets, Bankrupting Traditions
(Picture - Miriam Elder, From the Moscow Times, 11042008) NARYAN-MAR, Nenets Autonomous District — When an airplane carrying LUKoil workers crashed in the far north of this Arctic region three years ago, killing 29 of 52 people on board, many blamed the weather.
When, one year later, in March 2006, a helicopter carrying victims’ relatives to a [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Nenets, Reindeer Herders, Russia, oil and gas.
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Nenets Reindeer With Rabies / Стадо оленей, кочующее в Коми и НАО, заразилось бешенством
The Russian veterinary service has registered rabies in a group of 46 reindeers which suddenly died this month in a farm in the Komi Republic. According to Rosbaltnord.ru, the 46 animals which died in the “Severny” farm in Usinsk, the Komi Republic, all had rabies. The animals were all part of a bigger herd, which [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2008 under Reindeer, Russia.
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