Russia Ships First Arctic Oil, Fortifies Oil Defenses

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Source: Environment News Service

Riding on his pride in the first export of Russian Arctic oil earlier this month, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that allows oil and gas corporations to establish private armed security forces to defend their infrastructure, upping the ante for protestors.

On the same day, April 22, Earth Day, Putin also met with the Russian Security Council. There he said, “Oil and gas production facilities, loading terminals and pipelines should be reliably protected from terrorists and other potential threats. Nothing can be treated as trivia here.”

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On April 18, Gazprom loaded the first cargo of oil produced from the Prirazlomnoye field, presently the only Russian hydrocarbon development project on the Arctic shelf.

Demonstrating the importance of Arctic oil exports to Russia, President Putin was on hand and gave the command to start loading the first shipment of Arctic oil onto Sovkomflot’s specially designed ice-class tanker, the Mikhail Ulyanov.

The shipment is on its way to Russia’s first customer, the French company, Total, the international nonprofit organization Greenpeace revealed.

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Read more: http://ens-newswire.com/2014/04/29/russia-ships-first-arctic-oil-fortifies-oil-defenses/

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Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker arrives at the Prirazlomnaya platform to load Russia’s first shipment of Arctic oil. April 2014 (Photo courtesy Gazprom Neft)

[2naSalit]

1. Heck of a lot of good

those gunz will do when Mother Nature decides to kick their sorry asses.

Get ready for the first major spill in the arctic, I'm pretty confident that it will mean more weather like we've seen during the recent past... only worse.

[pediatricmedic]

2. Corporate armies and artic oil spills in the future....nt

[Nihil]

3. Now *that* is something that the world should be worried about ...

> hydrocarbon development project on the Arctic shelf.

This is something that affects the entire world rather than a petty squabble over
the latest re-drawing of lines on a map.

The absence of unified resistance & opposition to such stupidity as drilling oil & gas
in the Arctic is the biggest sign yet of just how corrupt & bought-out all of the
governments really are.

Corporations own all presidents, prime ministers and administrations.

"We the people" are shit outta luck - as are all of the non-human life that is
being wasted for the sake of petty greed.

[bananas]

4. Greenpeace is trying to get the arctic declared a global preserve

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/Save-the-Arctic/

We've raised global awareness about the dangers of Arctic oil drilling, climbed oil rigs to obstruct operations, mobilized nearly three million people and celebrated as major oil companies backed off plans to drill in the Arctic. View a timeline of our campaign. We won't stop until the Arctic is declared a global sancuary.