Environmental Victories for Sakhalin island

01 Discontinuation of waste dumping in the Sea of Okhotsk by oil companies

02 more rights and benefits for the island’s indigenous communities;

03 The cancellation of Shell company’s plans to construct pipelines across key feeding grounds of Western Pacific gray whales.

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