Green Wave - for the sake of Sakhalin nature and indigenous peoples
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The protesters urgently need the help of the world community. You can support these brave activists by sending an email message to the heads of ExxonMobil, Shell, and the Governor of Sakhalin. Just follow this link, and with a few easy clicks, you can show your support in their struggle: http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=5848
Sakhalin Protest: Updated Newsfeed
News, Developments and Photos from the Blockade and Protest by Sakhalin's
Indigenous Peoples
News
The "Green Wave" Protestors, Oil Workers in Confrontation.
(25/01/2005)
On the road to Lunskoye a confrontation occurred between picketers and oil company workers.
Yesterday during the day at the picket by the first security check-point along the road to the construction site of the Unified On-Shore Technological Complex for Sakhalin II (a site under the perview of the general contractor BETS) there was a confrontation between workers and the representatives of the minority indigenous peoples of Sakhalin.
Sakhalin Energy Project Blockaded.
(25/01/2005)
23 January 2005 (Sunday) at 11:00 AM the picketers-- representatives of the indigenous minority peoples of Sakhalin and representatives of nongovernmental organizations, such as Sakhalin Environment Watch, and the political parties "the Greens" and LDPR-- blockaded the road to the construction site of the Unified On-Shore Technological Complex for Sakhalin II, whose operator is Sakhalin Energy Investment Company.
Sakhalin: Indigenous protesters and their supporters blocked the road to Exxon Production point.
(21/01/2005)
On January 21, at 10.30 am indigenous peoples of Sakhalin started a long-term picketing of oil production objects. They blocked main road to Chaivo bay, where Exxon Coastal production point is located.
Indigenous Peoples Launch Protest Against Sakhalin Oil Projects.
(20/01/2005)
Sakhalin Island, Russia; 20 January 2005 – Members of several indigenous peoples living on Sakhalin Island, Russia, have launched public protests against Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon-Mobil oil and gas developments.
Oil TNCs Try to Suppress Indigenous Protest at Sakhalin.
(19/01/2005)
The Sakhalin Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North have chosen January 20, 2005 as a day to protest the two oil and gas pipelines that are being developed by Exxon, Shell, British Petroleum, Sakhalin Energy and their subsidiaries. Representatives of Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd and Exxon Oil and Gas Ltd are putting pressure upon participants of Green Wave protest action. For past several days their representatives visited indigenous people settlements and tried to persuade them not to participate in the action.
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