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World first: Russia begins pumping oil from Arctic seabed

2013-12-23 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Oil has begun to be pumped from the Arctic seabed, according to Russian oil giant, Gazprom. The company announced on Friday that it has begun exploiting oil reserves at the offshore field of Prirazlomnoye. The project, which is several years behind schedule, is hugely controversial and made international headlines in September after Russian military arrested 28 Greenpeace activists protesting the operation along with a British journalist and Russian videographer. "This is the first project in...

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