A rare, up-close look at Gazprom’s gas production in Arctic Siberia – Putin’s trump card against Europe. Photojournalist Justin Jin visited numerous times in the last decade – and was granted unprecedented access to strategic zones by the Russian military, where international energy companies showed him their technology and snow-truck drivers took him along
2022 – The Russian Arctic region, an area of 7,000 sq km atop the planet stretching from Finland to Alaska on which Moscow bureaucrats bestowed the name Zone of Absolute Discomfort, is wretched to live in, but just hospitable enough to allow for the extraction of resources trapped beneath it.
Gas extractors burn off excess condensate in the Russian Arctic tundra. The practice, called ‘flaring’, is harmful to the environment.