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A broken oil pipe - another vain of disaster. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-04 This pipe is one of the results of the oil spill - because after 20 years of service, it should be changed, not used for increased transport of oil.	A hopeless job? ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-07 "The small Byezhmyannyi River runs into river Kolva and the Pechora and the Barents Ocean. The cleaning companies are trying to take all spilled oil to "" skimmer"" systems."	A vain of death. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-07 A broken oil pipe. Even if the cynic old companies, knew that the pipes was on the edge to broke, the increased the transport (and pressure) and the pipes broke like pieces of wood.
Cleaning for the gallery. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 At the summer time children are playing out side all the day, coming home just to eat, they pick up berries, eggs and mushrooms.	Fighting with the oil spill on the river. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 "An old reindeer herder from Bolshezemelskaya tundra; perhaps thinking what will the future bring for the past owners of the tundra."	More Usinsk oil to the motherland! ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-04 "The communist slogan ""More Usinsk oil to the motherland"" at least become true - after det Usinsk oil disaster in 1994-95."
Oil spell in Komi republic ©Øyvind Ravna Two Nenets children are helping their father cutting horn	The huge oil spill - a result of a greedy civilization. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-04 The river Kolva in the Komi republic of Russia in the spring of 1995, during the terrible oil spills disaster.	To cure the disaster with fire. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-04 The results of this catastrophe are not possible to liquidate immediately. Fire is supposed to be the best way to take away the pollution.
Usinsk oil - 300 000 ton of it! ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-07 "This oil spill in Usinsk was 5-6 time bigger than the ""famous"" oil spill Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Here the work with the cleaning has started."
Nenets
Reindeer husbandry in the shadow of the oil indust ©Øyvind Ravna Sacrefice place with reindeer horns on the open tundra	The conqueror of the pasture ©Øyvind Ravna Driving with buran ove rBolshezemelskaya tundra
Yamal
. Concrete road over the Forest Nenets land ©Øyvind Ravna Big wheels keep on roiling - the oil industry keep on going	A flame from oil pipes. ©Øyvind Ravna It is a lot of such kinds of flames in the territory of oil production. A flame that polute the air and gives the Neshchang people asthma and allergy.	A monster sucking the blood out of the indigenous ©Øyvind Ravna A monster sucking the blood out of the indigenous peoples land - an oil pump station by a forest Nenets cemetery in Pur region
An all-terrain vehicle, which has destroyed lots o ©Øyvind Ravna To Nenets do their traditional sacrefice on Yamal peninsula	An oil pump station by the cemetery of Aivaseda ©Øyvind Ravna All land near pump stations is dead and for long time their will not grow anything.	An young city - Noyabrsk. ©Øyvind Ravna The Noyabrsk city was build for the oil (petrol) workers. They came here just for making money. When the oil will run out in this territory and Russians will not have any possibility to get money from this land, they will return to their mother land. But
Dark clouds over Neshchang ©Øyvind Ravna A lot of oil pumps on the Neshchang land	Dead water. ©Øyvind Ravna A girl of the Khudi famyly carry a reindeer calv	Evening by the river Pur ©Øyvind Ravna On the river Pur after sunset.
Evere year the oil companies eat more land ©Øyvind Ravna The oil reservoir in the Pur region is one of the biggest in the world, 22 billion tons, the same as the reservoir of Iran or USA	Oil pump stations in the Forest Nenets area. ©Øyvind Ravna These oil pump stations are like living beings which are sucking blood of the indigenous people land.	Preparing for the golden age ©Øyvind Ravna Old man Khudi is walking with reindeers.
The energy heart of Russia ©Øyvind Ravna The energy heart of Russia - a placate in front of the mayors office in Tarko-Sale, Pur region	Veins of the black gold. ©Øyvind Ravna Valves of the oil pipes.