Sakhalin Project 3

Environment Issues:-

One key concern from environmental groups is that the Sakahlin II project will harm the western gray whale population. The whales summer feeding grounds are close to the project's offshore platforms in the Sea of Okhotsk.
In 2006 IUCN set up the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel. Its members are marine scientists who give independent advice to Sakhalin Energy about managing any potential risks to the western gray whales. The Russian Academy of Sciences has identified an increasing population of western gray whales in the Sea of Okhotsk during a photo identification research programme.The Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI) are involved in regular monitoring of the western gray whales near the oil and gas developments on the Sakhalin Shelf.
Other concerns are that the project will threaten the livelihood of tens of thousands of fishermen, destroy the key salmon fishing area off the island by dumping one million tons of dredging spoil waste into the sea, and imply a long-time threat of a large oil spill in the Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan Dredging of Aniva Bay was completed in 2005. In 2005 the salmon harvest was recorded as an all-time high of more than 134,000 tonnes. In 2007 this record was overturned with a salmon catch of 144,181 tonnes.. Environmental monitoring reports are publicly available.
Sakhalin Energy paid compensation of $US110,000 to the Russian Federation to cover potential fish impacts from the Sakhalin II project. This compensation was paid regardless of whether any impact was recorded on the fishing industry or not. Part of these funds was used to set up thriving salmon hatcheries on Sakhalin Island.
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Can Russia reliably supply Japan with LNG?Tokyo Electric Power Co and Tokyo Gas Co this week said they expect to receive their first shipment of LNG from Russia's Sakhalin-2 project on April 6.They said that Tokyo Gas’s LNG carrier Energy Frontier, which loaded about 67,000 metric tons of LNG at Sakhalin-2, sailed from the Prigorodnoye liquefaction plant and is bound for their shared import terminal at Sodegaura.Tepco and Tokyo Gas are the first buyers to receive LNG from the Sakhalin-2 project, and the cargo aboard the Energy Frontier is to be divided equally by both companies for use as a fuel for city gas and power generation.Sakhalin-2, the first LNG development project in Russia, produces 9.6 million tons per year of LNG, supplying about 6 million tons per year to Japan to be used by four electric power companies and five gas companies.Altogether, Tepco will purchase 2 million tons per year and Tokyo Gas, 1.6 million tons per year on an FOB basis. Looking ahead, though, how reliable will Russia be as a supplier?As we all know, Japan has been looking to diversify its supplies of LNG away from Indonesia, which has proven to be unreliable regarding supply, price, and regularity.Will Japan’s move to Russia amount to an improvement over Indonesia as a supplier or will it face similar problems there, too?

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