"Economic Development and the Environment"
on the Sakhalin Offshore Oil and Gas Fields II

Copyright (C) 1999 by Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University.
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Conflict or Compromise?
Traditional natural resource use and oil exploitation
in northeastern Sakhalin/Noglikskii district

Emma Wilson

  1. Sources: Goskomstat Rossiiskoi Federatsii Sakhalinskoi oblastnoi komitet gosudarstvennoi statistiki (1999) Chislennosti nalichnogo i nostoyannogo naseleniya po administrativno-territorial'nymi yedinitsam, na 01.01.99, isk. No. 1308, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
    Goskomstat Rossiiskoi Federatsii Sakhalinskoi oblastnoi komitet gosudarstvennoi statistiki (1997) Ekonomicheskoe i sotsial'noe razvitie korennykh malochislennykh narodov Severa, isk. 249, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
  2. Sources: local residents, local newspaper.
  3. Russian resident, Nogliki.
  4. Nivkh mother, Nogliki.
  5. From interview with local regional manager of NGDU Sakhalinmorneftegas.
  6. Source: Sakhalin regional tax inspectorate.
  7. Comments by reindeer herders near Pil'tun bay.
  8. Source: local reports.
  9. Official from Sakhalin regional committee of ecology, quoted by "Ecojuris."
  10. This was done on the basis of the Presidential decree "On immediate measures to protect the living environment and economic activities of Northern Native minorities" (22.04.92).
  11. Quotes from reindeer herders near Pil'tun bay.
  12. A phrase repeated constantly in conversations with Native and non-Native residents alike.
  13. Comment by a Moscow environmental lawyer.
  14. From SEIC promotional material.
  15. Nivkh resident, Nogliki.
  16. Source: Sakhalin Regional Committee of Ecology.
  17. Source: Regulations for Olenii wildlife preserve (1989).
  18. Source: Regulations for Noglikskii wildlife preserve (1998).