WWF takes Government to court over oil project

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 16 August 2007

Two environmental groups are seeking a judicial review of a government department's support for a Russian oil and gas development they say is threatening to make the western Pacific gray whale extinct.

WWF and environmental and social justice organisation The Corner House have filed a case against the Export Credits Guarantee Department, the government body that facilitates British business abroad. The groups claim that a request under the Freedom of Information Act revealed the department had legally committed itself to underwriting the...

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