Trouble in the Pipeline for Grey Whales
October 10, 2008
October 10, 2008
SAKHALIN, Russia, Oct. 10 -- World Wildlife Fund issued the following news release:
The fate of the world's few remaining Western Grey Whales now rests on the outcome of appeals to Russian authorities and courts following the refusal of an oil consortium to consider alternatives to a proposal to lay an oil pipeline through a shallow lagoon crucial to the whales' food supplies.
Last month the Russian government ignored an outcry over project impacts on Pil . . .
The fate of the world's few remaining Western Grey Whales now rests on the outcome of appeals to Russian authorities and courts following the refusal of an oil consortium to consider alternatives to a proposal to lay an oil pipeline through a shallow lagoon crucial to the whales' food supplies.
Last month the Russian government ignored an outcry over project impacts on Pil . . .