Bad weather has apparently hindered the progress of the Eirik Raude oil rig out of Ølenfjord and yesterday evening, it lay in the same place it had 24 hours earlier. It is assumed, however, that efforts to move the rig will resume today if the weather conditions clear.

ST. PETERSBURG—Despite the fact that the Murmansk Regional Land Committee declared that initial oil drilling plans by one of the region's oil companies has supplied insufficient documentated to begin its project, it is also defacto punishing reindeer breeders—whose land has been abused by the oilmen—for bringing the environmental abuses to light. The case raises obvious questions of fairness regarding the reindeer breeders, who had little knowledge of the oil company’s activities.