Greenpeace sues to protect ribbon seals Sep 5, 2009
Ribbon seals are found in the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska and the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia. Ribbon seals are distinguished by the patterns of their fur that gives them the coloration of a panda bear: white bands or ribbons that encircle the head, base of the trunk and two front flippers over a dark coat. (Juneau Empire)
Activists sue to protect ribbon seals in Arctic Sep 4, 2009
Native to the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska and the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia, ribbon seals rely on sea ice for several months a year ... Ribbon seals are found in the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska and the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia. (MSNBC -- Environment)
At least 11 dead in bombing in Russia's Ingushetia Aug 17, 2009
Women fish on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk near the town of Ola in Chukotka, July 20, 2009. Seventy years of Soviet rule failed to subdue Russia's most isolated. (AlertNet)
DALY: Russia eyes Asia as gas customer Feb 27, 2009
On Feb. 18, Russia's first LNG plant was inaugurated at Prigorodnoe near the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Prigorodnoe facility, which has been under construction for six years, has two 100,000-cubic-meter LNG-processing trains, a loading pier, laboratory, control center and storage tanks, with the first LNG shipment scheduled for March. (Insight on the News)
Russia enters LNG market Feb 26, 2009
The plant will process gas from the Sakhalin-2 extraction project, consisting of several offshore fields in the Sea of Okhotsk. The consortium involved in the plant as presently constituted includes Gazprom with 50% plus one share, Royal Dutch Shell as project operator with 27. (Asia Times Online)
