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The pipeline's end point, the oil terminal, will be built in Southwest Primorye that is a home to over a quarter of Russia's endangered species, including the Amur (Siberian) tiger and the 30 last remaining Amur leopards. The terminal will also threaten the Far East Marine Biosphere Reserve - Russia's only marine reserve with the status of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
There are alternatives available to make this a safer project not only for nature but also for oil transportation in the Sea of Japan.
However, the local governor and his administration continue to promote the selected site on the Amur Bay, presently a pristine coastline.
This must be one of the most outrageous examples of how money can manipulate political decision-making and destroy fragile areas of our planet!
The construction may start already in May.
Pressure them to change! Stop the pipe by writing to:
Дальневосточный леопард
- President Vladimir Putin via Putin's website www.kremlin.ru
- Primorsky Krai Governor Sergei Darkin via website www.primorsky.ru (on the bottom of the page you find 4 input fields that you need to fill in: 1) your name, 2) your e-mail address, 3) subject (we suggest: oil pipeline), and 4) your message)
- Transneft, Director Simyon Vainshtock, e-mail: transneft@transneft.ru
- the Governor of The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) via website www.jbic.go.jp
Example protest letter
In Primorye the pipe crosses the Barsovy Wildlife Refuge and runs along the Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve threatening the habitat of 30 last remaining Amur leopards. Any oil spill from the oil terminal in Perevoznaya Bay will lethally threaten Primorye beaches, Vladivostok and the Far East Marine Biosphere Reserve, Russia's only marine reserve with the status of UNESCO Biosphere Preserve.
This oil pipeline is to cross the earthquake-, mudflow- and landslide-prone Severomuysky Ridge posing a threat of oil pollution to the Lake Baikal basin.
There are alternatives available to make the Transneft pipeline a safer project for the environment of Siberia and the Russian Far East as well as for Northeast Asia as a whole.
I urge you to take every possible measure to guarantee that the Siberia-Russian Far East pipeline is built according to best international environmental standards.
I strongly suggest that you do not support the pipeline if it is built to Perevoznaya Bay and in a seismically active area in the Lake Baikal basin.
Yours sincerely,
Success IS possible, because:
- the decision to switch locations, and not build the terminal near the existing Port of Nakhodka but in the Amur leopard habitat, was made very recently. There is no reason at all why this decision cannot be reversed.
- environmentalists already have managed to change the route of this pipeline once. It will be built farther away from Lake Baikal than was originally planned.
- environmentalist recently stopped a plan to build a pipeline on the Russian Island of Sakhalin.
- two years ago, local environmentalists stopped a planned coal mine in the Amur leopard habitat.
- most of the oil will be exported to Japan. The Japanese banks will provide most of the investments needed to build the pipeline. These banks have strict environmental policies and may be willing to urge Russia to change the route and terminal location.
- the terminal location is not a major issue to the Russian federal government. The government's main concern is that the oil can be transferred from the terminal to tankers and exported to Japan.
More info:
For in depth info read a problem overview.
Other links:
Decision on "Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean" Pipeline Caused New Protests of Ecologists
Transneft Installs its Pipe in Defiance of the Law
