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...