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Ecology and Ethics of the Gas Pipeline Deal

From the ecological viewpoint the sale of Soviet gas to Western Europe looks safe enough … at first glance. Natural gas is perhaps the energy source least of all harmful to the environment. But a lot depends on the conditions under which the gas is extracted and transported. Gas will be coming to Western Europe — to France, West Germany, Italy and other countries — from Western Siberia, a region with two distinguishing characteristics: 1) It lies in the permafrost zone, where natural ecosystems are exceptionally easy to destroy. 2) It lies in the zone of the Soviet socialist economic system. Western Siberia now supplies roughly half of the gas and oil in the USSR.