Sakhalin II phase II:environment and social problems
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Dmitry LisitsynSakhalin Environment
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Taking into account fundamentalviolations of policy and procedures,during long term periodEBRD has been identifyingSakhalin II project“unfit for purpose”
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Group III:watercourses with significantsalmon spawning or (possible)presence of Sakhalin Taimen
(Data from official SEIC’s documents)
Example of typical practice of upstream tributaries’ crossings:Travyanaya river (Makarovsky district, Spread III of construction)
Travyanaya river:
Waterway fish-industry category(under Russian legislative rules) -- Highest
Presence of Sakhalin Taimen --- Yes
River Group (SEIC’s classification) --- III
Overview of current situation with project development (Summer – Autumn 2005)
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Places ofpipelinecrossings
Map of Travyanaya rv. tributaries upstream crossings by pipeline
How it was supposed to be: picture from SEIC’s officialpresentation about sedimentation prevention measures
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Immediately above this Travyanaya river crossing the water is quite clean…
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… but just downstream…
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This bridge does not mud from creeping down to the river
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Preparing place for welding of the pipeline section –straight over the tributary of the Travyanaya river
A destroyed tributary channel
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Tributary carries mud to the main channel of Travyanaya river
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One hundred meters downstream – it’s obvious that a massive flow of mudflowed through here
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The next tributary – Ozernaya river:
This deep trench was dug-up, just toprovide convenient conditions forconstruction work
As a result, small waterfall hasappeared
Vehicles move across the streamcontinuously
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Ozernaya river crossing
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The result several km downstream on the Ozernaya river
Places ofpipelinecrossings
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How wild salmon spawning river should looks(the river, untouched by pipeline)
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Scientific researches say:salmon can swim up rivers with high content of suspended solids, butcannot spawn in water with suspended solids content 220 mg a liter and higher
Ozernaya river,several kmdownstream ofpipeline crossings:
females diedbefore laying eggs
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Travyanaya river about 14 km down from upstream pipeline crossing with a very highcontent of suspended solids (SEIC’s EIA says – 100 m downstream of rivercrossings all suspended solids settle and water becomes completely clean)
Downstream pipeline crossing of Travyanaya rv.
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Sakhalin II pipeline:new emerging problems and threats
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Erosion of pipeline route could cause pipeline rupture and catastrophic oil spill(this erosion occurred after only one year)
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Typical example of erosion on Sakhalin’s mountain areas
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Constructors are forced to remove massive amount of soil on steep slopesof river canyons
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June, 13 2005 August, 18 2005
Krinka river crossing construction: preparation work is going on several month already.Not potential active erosion processes only, but also high risk of land slides
Same place
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Poachers already use pipeline access roads
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Old militaryammunition depot
Sakhalin II pipeline rout
New threat – potential catastrophe by explosion of old bombs
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Under the Russian legislation, the official prohibited zone of an ammunitiondepot is 400 m, safety zone is 3 000 m
- The current distance between the pipeline and the ammunition depot is 300 m
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In case of explosion, the range of all buildings’ destruction will be 7 – 11 km
- The distance between LNG plant and the ammunition depot is about 4.5 km
Pipeline location is adjacent to old military ammunition depotwhich is in violation of Russian legislation, and createsa huge risk of catastrophic explosion
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Jetty construction in Aniva bay:increase in damage to bay
June 01, 2005
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June 01, 2005
No changes for dumping site
No monitoring for impact on cherry and chum salmon at all
Construction continues during salmon spawningseason (cherry, pink and chum salmon)
Total volume of dumped dredged material is 471 333 м3 at the end of dumpingAccording SEIC’s data, 219 131 m3 remains in dumping zone, which means252 202 m3 was spread among the Aniva bay
Construction of LNG jetty
Dumping zone
Scallop resource distribution in Aniva baySakhalin Environment Watch
Local fishermen and people witness –scallop is completely disappeared from beaches
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Main places of the traditionalstorm scallop collection ashore
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Dumping zone
In the past it was possible to collect scallop on beachesTotal amount of collected scallop reached tens of tons after strong storm
Scallop collection is livelihood and an important part of our lifestyle
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September, 2004
August 17, 2003
Remaining volume of dredging is about 2,000,000 m3What will be with our remaining resources in Aniva bay,when it will be dumped during next few months?
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Salmon catch of Kalipso company decreased from 1,500 tons in 2003to 365 tons in 2005
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Dredging will continue around operating area of Aniva bay – immediatelyadjacent to mouth of the very important spawning Mereya riverHuge long term impact on Aniva bay marine resources is guaranteed
Mouth of Mereya river
Evidence of sediments’accumulation in this area
Future LNG export jetty
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New protest on the North. Sakhalin indigenous people are not satisfied with SEIC’s IPdevelopment plan as it doesn’t include their key demand – new independent SEIA
End of June, 2005
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Dacha community: SEIC refuses to resettle them and pay compensationBecause of federal sanitary rules, it will be prohibited to liveon their own land – too close to LNG
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There are some improvements of Sakhalin roads due to Sakhalin IIBut negative impact outweighs –very heavy traffic of the project destroys Sakhalin roads
Main road of the Island
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Main road of the Island
Sakhalin II project lorries
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This asphalt road near Nogliki was completely good ten years –before SEIC’s constructors have started to use it
Main road of the Island
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By the time of EBRD Annual Meeting a large number offundamental policy violations were identified by AGM
Since then Shellmade promisedto correctthese problems
Yet theseproblemsonly get worse
Many violations now are extremely serious andirreversible
� Offshore platform base installed before expert panel could completeassessment
� Salmon stream crossing violations� Aniva Bay dumping� There was no sufficient and appropriate baseline data submitted� Essential alternatives were not assessed� There is no Resettlement Action Plan until now� Too late start of working on Indigenous People Development Plan� Fundamental and systematical violations of Russian legislation
Sakhalin II will never comply with EBRD policies
EBRD financing of Sakhalin II project will send wrong message to:• Future companies• Other banks• Civil Society
…looking for a sustainability
EBRD must undertake final decision to not identifythis project as “fit for purpose”and to not finance this project