Russia Pushes Back Plan To Cut Gas Flaring To 5% Another 3 Years, To 2014 - Flares $13 Billion/Year

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MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Russia has delayed its plan to reduce gas flaring to 5 percent by three years to 2014, Russia's Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev said on Thursday.

Both the Energy and Natural Resources ministries have decided to postpone the target, Trutnev told reporters.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSL435542520081204?rpc=401&

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1. Biggest crime against nature on the planet

I see they haven't learned anything since the Soviet days, when they ruined vast expanses of the country in the name of "progress".