Gray whales granted rare reprieve (BBC)

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Conservation campaigners are hailing a victory for the "critically endangered" gray whale.

The groups have won agreement from some oil and gas companies in Russian waters to end seismic work, giving gray whales a chance to breed undisturbed.

The cessation comes in response to research showing how oil exploration can alter the behaviour of gray whales.

However, a number of firms have refused to stop exploration work planned for the breeding season.

Feeding season

The WWF and Pacific Environment conservation groups praised the Sakhalin Energy consortium for its decision to abandon underwater seismic work scheduled to take place off Sakhalin Island in 2009.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8017291.stm

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1. The bad guys: Exxon Mobil (surprise, surprise!), BP and Rosneft.

"The suspension of seismic work by Sakhalin Energy, which is backed by Shell and Gasprom, might mean the whales can move in-shore, feed and breed.

"However, campaigners pointed out that other oil and gas firms working in the region, including BP, Exxon and Rosneft, were still planning to carry out seismic work in 2009." --BBC

Don't know who "Rosneft" is, but Exxon Mobil got booted out of Venezuela for being too greedy, and suffered Iran being put "off the table" (--along with prosecution of the top Bushwhack perps, is my guess), so, heck, they gotta get oil to gouge us with, and buy our government officials with, somewhere. Why not where extremely endanged baby whales are being born? Fuck Mother Nature (FMN) is their motto. FMN is a radical fascist movement to end all life on earth, just identified by here by me, and to live in luxury and laugh at everybody else while it happens. The "Lord of the Rings" movies were not coincidental. To the Dark Towers we must go to unseat the global corporate predators who will being blight to the earth and destroy us all.

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2. Rosneft is Russia's leading petroleum company.

Don't expect them to be too well behaved, especially on their home turf.

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3. you are right

driven by darkness, FMN