Middle East Economic Survey
VOL. LIV
No 21
23-May-2011
CASPIAN
Iranian Scientist Sounds Alarm On Caspian Pollution
The director of Irans Caspian Sea Ecological Research Institute, Reza Pourgholam, told Fars News Agency on 12 May that the pollution created by the oil and gas industry of the Northern Caspian states is reaching a critical condition. Mr Pourgholam said upstream oil production and tanker traffic throughout the Caspian Sea accounts for the annual dumping of 122,350 tons of...
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