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Article

8 Jun 2005

Author:
Jonathan Brown, Independent [UK]

Shellshock on the island terrified by oil giant's pipeline [Russia]

...for Shell, operations there [in Sakhalin] are running into fierce local resistance, and the company has found itself the target of the biggest environmental campaign in Russia...Parallels are being drawn with the resistance the company faced in the Ogoni region of Nigeria...SEIC's [Sakhalin Energy Investment Company] chief executive, Ian Craig...accepts...that the project is not universally loved and that mistakes have been made. "This a huge development and it must have a very significant impact. Our job as management is to minimise the negative and maximise the positive. You can't have a development on this scale without an impact on one part of the community. There will be people who have concerns but there will be others who will benefit from it." Shell and SEIC believe they are doing everything they can to comply with social and environmental standards as laid down by the World Bank and other bodies. [also refers to Mitsubishi, Mitsui]