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Not all foreign companies engaged in oil production in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian fully observe environmental policy requirements, as most of them simply dump drilling cuttings into the sea, according to the president of the International EcoEnergy Academy professor Fagan Aliyev.
He said such activities of foreign companies is explained by the fact that to transport the wastes to the shore requires additional expenses, which, in its turn, raises the cost of oil. Although there an oil waste management site in the Garadagh district of Baku, none of the foreign companies except BP uses it. “Specialists of foreign companies often refer to the North Sea as an example, where they release the wastes right into the sea. But unlike the North Sea, Caspian is an inland body of water and any pollution of it threatens with an ecological catastrophe”, prof. Aliyev said.*
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Issue: March, 3, 2001
POLITICS
President Aliyev leaves for Paris

500th anniversary of Sefevid state to be marked

Around 400 NGOs in Azerbaijan

ECONOMICS
2-month offshore drilling plan fulfilled

Production boom thanks to oil extraction

State enterprises pay AZM1.5 trillion in tax

Bank expanding network of int'l transfers

New grant program announced

Food make up two thirds of turnover

Interior design, construction exhibition due in Baku

Underground seeking investors

ECOLOGY
Caspian is no North Sea

NEWS OF BAKU
Bars to work till midnight

MISCELLANEOUS
Int'l conference on refugees expected


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