Fight between Gazprom and Russia's herding nomads
Lena Sarteto’s puffy, rough-skinned hands are a flurry of activity. As water boils over the fire in the centre of her teepee, Ms Sarteto, a nomad with the Nenets indigenous people of western Siberia, is cooking a feast for her guests and her family of five. She chops up dark red pieces of jerked deer meat, peels a huge silver fish, and places pieces of dry bread and biscuits on plates that she stores in a wooden sled. Her floor is the grass beneath her feet; fish bones and scales litter the room around the fire. The fish bones will stay there when they move on.
Ms Sarteto is in a hurry. In a few hours, her nomadic group of about 10 families - still called Brigade No 5, their official name from Soviet times – will push further into the North. They herd their 3,000 reindeer to the shores of the Kara Sea, reaching that part of the Arctic Circle in August. Then they turn around, fleeing the frost and returning their reindeer to the grass and moss of the warmer tundra.
The Yamal Peninsula is also home to Gazprom, the huge Russian energy company that supplies natural gas to much of Western Europe. And as Gazprom pushes into the peninsula it has brought the kind of development — road, rail, and pipelines — that is transforming the tundra into a landscape they are increasingly failing to recognize. The Nenets have in recent years been introduced to asphalt highways, rusty metal, wire and drilling towers. In short, Russia’s wealth appears to be cut out of the tundra that they once called their own.
“The fish tastes dead; we feel sick after drinking water out of the lakes; our reindeers get stuck in wire loops or trip over pipes, break their legs and die,” said Ms Sarteto. Then she repeats a line like mantra: “We are the last generation to lead a nomadic life; our children will live in towns, without tundra.”
Lifestyle change
The Yamal Peninsula contains the Bovanenkovo gas field, a vast tract
Many of the 13,000 nomads left on Yamal Peninsula fear they will be forced
No one knows exactly how many hundreds of years the Nenets have kept the same
“Our research shows that the biggest fear that nomads have is not global
During a recent camp break, men exercised by lassoing deer while women put up
This is not the first assault on their way of life.
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