
"For Russia, the biggest threat of the permafrost melt is to oil and gas company infrastructure," said Vladimir Chuprov, who heads Greenpeace's energy programme in Russia. He said that the group had consulted with experts at gas giant Gazprom in writing its report, which detailed the destruction to infrastructure such as pipelines caused by rising temperatures and resulting melt water.
"These are people who see what is happening and are already feeling the economic consequences of it," he told reporters in Moscow…. The permafrost thaw has accelerated in recent years and Russia is now shrinking by 30 square kilometres (12 square miles) per year as icey territory disappears from the coastline, one of the authors of the report, Oleg Anisimov, warned….
Zapadno-Kluchevskoe oil in the Tomsk region of Siberia, shot by Ivan Petrov / Иван Петров, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License
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