Shell Turmoil Over Pipeline Protests ; Moscow Fury Halts Pounds 6bn Oil and Gas Project

Mail on Sunday (July 03, 2005)

Author: Tom Mcghie

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SHELL has suspended work in Russia on parts of a controversial Pounds 6 billion gas and oil pipeline the most expensive in the world.

As the group last week cemented the merger of its Dutch and British arms in an attempt to draw a line under recent troubles, a Russian government report accused the oil giant of environmental vandalism.

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Shell Turmoil Over Pipeline Protests ; Moscow Fury Halts Pounds 6bn Oil and Gas Project

The report last week strongly criticised Shell's venture for destroying the land around riverbanks on the island of Sakhalin, north o...

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