Nenets vs Gas
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In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal Peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone and a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower. The indigenous Nenets people have been pasturing here for over 200 generations. Can they survive this industrialisation? An environmental and Arctic western, Nenets vs Gas explore the emergence of the Northern Sea Route and the disappearance of the last Siberian route of transhumance: the success of one may mean the extinction of the other.
Citation
Main credits
Ghizzardi, Sergio (film director)
Montmartin, Valérie (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Patrice Michaux; editing, Yen le Van; music, Ola Kvernberg.
Distributor subjects
Documentary films,Arctic Studies,The Arctic,Russia,Indigenous Studies,Energy,Energy SectorKeywords
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- [Narrator] The world of
energy is a fascinating one.
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Perhaps because people are capable
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of the worst in order to get into it.
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Who gets hold of energy,
gets hold of power?
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In today's world, Russia is
the largest gas producer.
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Yamal contains 80% of Russia's reserves.
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And at this gas safe deposit
box, I met the Nenets.
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(reindeer grunting)
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- [Narrator] Will the Nenet
survive gas development?
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Will their way of life suffer?
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What's the impact on their environment?
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In Yamal, the Nenets perpetuate
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from generation to generation
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the longest transhumans
route in the world.
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Scattered in some 50 brigades,
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called so since the Soviet era,
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the Nenets live entirely
off their livestock,
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reindeer meat and skins.
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In the tundra, I followed two brigades,
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number one and number four.
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- [Narrator] The Nenets
search together for the rare
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and fragile feed for the reindeers.
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- [Narrator] Vassily Serotetto
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is the patriarch of brigade number one.
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He guides his herd of over 2,000 reindeer
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during a heroic journey.
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(reindeer barking)
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- [Narrator] In the Nenet's language,
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Yamal means the end of the world.
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The Siberian Peninsula located north
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of the Arctic Circle
is 700 kilometers long,
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a quarter of the surface of France.
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From spring onwards, the
Nenets lead their herds
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to the north on the
shores of the Kara Sea.
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They search for the fresh air
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and rich pastures of the tundra.
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In winter, they head south
through the frozen Ob,
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one of the largest Russian rivers.
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They leave the tundra for
the taiga, the boreal forest.
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- [Narrator] It all started 50 years ago,
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when Soviet geologists made a discovery
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that would change the lives of the Nenets.
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- [Narrator] Nothing discourages
the Russian authorities.
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Neither the complexity of gas exploitation
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nor the extreme climate
conditions of Yamal.
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Industrialization can start.
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For generations, brigade number four
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passed through the Bovanenkovo area,
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now the dominion of Gazprom,
the heart of gas exploitation.
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Over the years, Myangche Khudi
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has seen the tundra change dramatically.
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- 50 years ago, it was
only the reindeer nomads
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who were using the land.
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Now it's the industry who
wants to use the land as well,
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and it's the infrastructure,
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and it's all sorts of people
who want to use the land.
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And the towns are growing,
and the industry needs
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settlements for their
fly in, fly out workers,
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and all of that is taking land.
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And that is a real pressure,
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and there's no way to invent
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these pastures somewhere else.
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- [Narrator] Alik
Serotetto, son of Vassily,
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is one of the few Nenets to have graduated
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with diplomas in law and economics.
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He lives in Yar-Sale, in a small
town in southeastern Yamal.
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- [Narrator] At what
price are the Russians
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laying their hands on the Arctic's wealth?
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What is the place of Alik and his family,
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faced with these strategic challenges?
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- [Narrator] Every year, Russia organizes
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an international conference
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on the oil and gas
industry in St. Petersburg.
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The entire Russian state elite
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and apparatus have a single objective,
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to become the world's
leading energy power.
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- [Narrator] Yamal is being transformed
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into a strategic region.
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Villages are changed into
cities such as Salekhard,
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or into dormitory towns like Bovanenkovo.
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Infrastructure is expanding.
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Gazprom is building the world's
most northerly railway line.
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Novatek, together with Total,
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build an industrial
exploitation site, Sabetta.
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They designed a harbor, and
an international airport
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with a direct connection to Moscow.
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- [Narrator] In the west,
the Russians have built
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pipeline networks to transport
gas over land into Europe.
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In the east, they open
a northeastern seaway,
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with Yamal as the point of departure.
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LNG tankers, filled with liquid gas,
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are leaving for the west.
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Others, towards Asia.
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However, from December to April,
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this sea route around the
Bering Strait is closed.
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It is covered by more than
three meters of thick ice.
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- [Narrator] The Northeastern
sea route is becoming
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the backbone of Russia's Arctic strategy.
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Nuclear icebreakers crisscross the ocean
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to facilitate the 6,000 kilometer stretch
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along the Siberian coast.
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Moscow's mission is to secure its control
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over the Arctic's raw materials.
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- [Narrator] Vassily has only one concern,
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the survival of his herd
and his way of life.
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- [Narrator] A major
challenge for icebreakers
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is to open the seaways to tankers
filled with liquified gas.
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They leave from the tip of the Ob River
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to reach Asia in 15 days instead
of 30 via the Suez Canal.
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The Arctic is no longer a sanctuary
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and is being transformed into some
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5,500 kilometers long maritime highway.
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- We need to use some new
tactics of ice navigation,
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new type of work, you know?
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We have some experience with
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icebreaker assistance with small ships.
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We know how to lead them, we
know how to tell them, yes,
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but with such new type, we don't know.
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We don't have such experience.
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And this is the most
problem maybe nowadays.
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Usually we can break about
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one and a half meters,
sometimes two meters.
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We can go through this ice, yes.
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- [Diana] Our main purpose
is to lead the ship,
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yes, as an icebreaker.
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So we're going very close to the ship,
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and we break the ice near the ship,
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and that can help to start move.
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The main problem, that we
can go through the ice,
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but the question is, if our ship could,
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that ship that we are
leading sometimes can't.
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And if we can go through the ice
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but the ship which we are lead can't,
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main purpose is not completed.
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- [Narrator] In the Gulf of
the Ob, the crossing is narrow.
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The icebreakers are
patrolling all the time.
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It is essential to avoid the LNG tankers
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from getting stuck in the ice.
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- Their way of dealing
with the advancement
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of the gas industry is not
taking a total opposition
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and saying, "We are going
to defend our land against
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the gas industry," because it
can only happen in conflict.
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They try to find ways in which
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they can continue their own lifestyle
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in spite of having the gas
industry on their land.
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And if Moscow says that
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that deposit is going to be developed,
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these people are not stupid,
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they know that if Moscow says it,
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it will be developed, full stop.
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This industry is too big a thing.
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The Nenets wouldn't be able
to resist it completely.
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They wouldn't be able to veto it,
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because they don't have
the rights to do that.
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There's no way they can say,
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"Oh, we don't want the Bovanenkovo
deposit to be extracted.
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They can have something to
say about smaller issues,
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and I think this dedication
to the smaller issues
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is what rescued a lot of the lifestyle
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that we can still see today.
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- Most of the hydrocarbons
that are in the Arctic
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are located on the Russian side.
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And those will be developed.
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That's what's driving our
current climate problem,
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and so it's kind of
ironic that, obviously,
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as the Arctic opens up and
you can now start drilling
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and extracting more resources,
such as oil and gas,
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then that's just gonna further amplify
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the climate change that
we're going through.
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- You're warming the
Arctic up so much faster,
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and all the permafrost areas are thawing,
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and that's gonna affect
all the plant species
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as well as the animal species
in the Arctic as well.
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The ice is melting faster. The
permafrost is thawing faster.
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I mean, all of these are interconnected.
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It's just that there are
traditional indicators
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of how they understand the climate system,
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how they understand
storms and ice conditions
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and species migration,
all of that is changing
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as a result of climate change,
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'cause I think the pace
that we're seeing today
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in the changes that are
happening in the Arctic
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is so fast, much faster than anything
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that's happened in the historical past.
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So, that's why their traditional ways
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of knowledge aren't working anymore.
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(reindeer barking)
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- [Florian] You know
the story of his father?
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It's a difficult one.
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He committed suicide after
an oil and gas consultation
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with the company Amoco back in the 1990s.
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After this, yeah, he thought
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that that would be the end of the life
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for that group of reindeer nomads.
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And he couldn't stand that.
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(reindeer barking)
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It's really, really nice,
also, for his legacy to see
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that his son and his grandchildren
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are still moving on the same land.
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(gas flares rumbling)
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(gas flares rumbling continues)
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(gas flares rumbling continues)
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(gas flare rumbling)
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(gentle music)
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- [Narrator] In Yamal,
as industrial sites grow,
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pasture space is being
drastically reduced.
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(herder whistling)
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(reindeer barking)
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(wind howling)
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(wind howling)
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(wind howling continues)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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- [Narrator] In the winter of 2014,
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more than a quarter of the reindeer
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died in the Yamal Peninsula.
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(reindeer grunting)
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(rope whooshing)
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- [Narrator] The future
of the number one brigade
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lies on the shoulders of
the younger generation.
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(reindeer trotting)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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- [Narrator] In the tundra,
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children leave the camp for nine months.
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This is the last summer morning.
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(dog barking)
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(wind rustling)
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(helicopter buzzing)
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(child yelling)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(helicopter buzzing continues)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(children giggling)
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(attendees applauding)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(fire crackling)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(all laughing)
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(student giggles)
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(camera clicks)
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(Aleksandra speaking in
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music)
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- [Narrator] Like Vassily,
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I don't know what tomorrow will bring.
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Facing both climate change
and crazy gas extraction,
01:12:09.690 --> 01:12:12.513
the Nenets will have to
rely on their strengths,
01:12:13.500 --> 01:12:14.800
their knowledge of nature,
01:12:15.690 --> 01:12:18.990
and their capacity for
resilience to survive,
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as the backbone of which
is the transhumans route
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that they have walked for generations.
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)
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(gentle music continues)