Tripartite Partnerships Sakhalin Island Corporate Social Responsibility Lapland
Tripartite Partnerships: Sakhalin Island Corporate Social Responsibility, Lapland University 24. 02. 2016
Green wave • Against oil developments in Sakhalin, international campaign • Mostly against Shell (through the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development) • Sakhalin Environmental Watch • Bank watch network • Greenpeace • Indigenous people protests in 2005 •
Sackhalin-1 • Sakhalin-1: 1977 -2000 -exploration, since 2001 commercial drilling • Exxon Neftegas Limited, a subsidiary of U. S. -based Exxon. Mobil, is the operator and holds a 30 percent interest; • Russian oil company Rosneft acting via its affiliates RNAstra (8. 5 percent) and Sakhalinmorneftegas-Shelf (11. 5 percent); • Japanese consortium SODECO (30 percent); • Indian state-owned oil company ONGC Videsh Ltd. (20 percent).
Sakhalin-2 • Sakhalin Energy—the operator • Gazprom Sakhalin Holdings B. V. (subsidiary of Gazprom) - 50% plus 1 share • Shell Sakhalin Holdings B. V. (subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell) - 27. 5% minus 1 share • Mitsui Sakhalin Holdings B. V. (subsidiary of Mitsui)- 12. 5% • Diamond Gas Sakhalin (subsidiary of Mitsubishi) - 10%
Sakhalin-2
Partnership Mode: Sakhalin-1 • Exxon-tripartite agreement, signed in 2012 • grant program • in each village employ a local public relation person- collects complaintsdistributes information on grants, helps with local employment • Rosneft: no agreements-support sports, local observers in their sea explorations • Locals stop criticizing the company
Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development plan
Partnership Mode: Sakhalin-2 • Tripartite agreement in 2006 • Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development plan-2006 -2010 • Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development plan-2011 -2015 • Institutionalization of tribal communities, now registered, trained, have bank accounts • Indigenous people distribute grants themselvesmoney conflicts • Prior and informed consent
Indigenous people • Yokkola • Tradition as an open air museum • Very few people cut Yukkola • Fishermen –involved with illegal activities, especially related to caviar • Good infrastructure- facilitates illegal activities
Lessons learned • In oil sector-high state involvement, low NGO involvement—NGO protesters, not standard designers • In oil low stakeholders involvement— consultations mostly with indigenous people— tripartite agreements-should be multi-stakeholder platforms • From assistance to engagement (action research, community based research) • Equitable Origin (EO), the creator of the world’s first independent social and environmental performance certification system for the oil and gas industry
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