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Wide shot of land contaminated by oil2. Mid shot of above showing close ups of pipes and leaking oil tanks3. Close up of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBaku area, Azerbaijan; Turkmenbashi, Chelekan and Nebit Dag, Turkmenistan\u003cbr/\u003eOutside Baku, Azerbaijan - October 1st\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of land contaminated by oil\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot of above showing close ups of pipes and leaking oil tanks\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of pipes\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close ups of oil leaking out of pipes\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of oil on ground\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot of oil showing nodding donkey\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of oil and rubbish\u003cbr/\u003eChelekan, Turkmenistan - September 28th\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of oil bubbling away in well which has been left\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot of above\u003cbr/\u003e10.Wide shot of above\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot of oil bubbling away in ground\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of oil oozing away\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of pipe\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up of broken pipe tied together with rope\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid shot of man wrapping sand around pipe to show gas leak\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up of sand blowing with gas\u003cbr/\u003eTurkmenbashi, Turkmenistan - September 25th\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot of pipes with Caspian in background\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of \"pipe-bridge\" across road with boys running through it\u003cbr/\u003e19. Boys playing with pipes\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide shot of pipe with cladding falling off\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up of section of bare pipe\u003cbr/\u003eBaku, Azerbaijan - October 2nd\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement\u003cbr/\u003eChelekan, Turkmenistan - September 28th \u003cbr/\u003e23. Pan of rusting equipment littering ground\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid shot of abandoned rusting equipment\u003cbr/\u003eBaku, Azerbaijan - October 2nd\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement\u003cbr/\u003eNebit Dag, Turkmenistan - Sept 25th\u003cbr/\u003e26. Various of Monument Oil's equipment\u003cbr/\u003eAshkhabad, Turkmenistan - Sept 26th\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Atal Gupta\u003cbr/\u003eOff-shore from Chelekan - Sept 28th\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide shot of abandoned oil drilling platform full of bits of rusting equipment\u003cbr/\u003e29. Oil drilling platform that has imploded and toppled over\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close up of above\u003cbr/\u003eBaku - October 2nd\u003cbr/\u003e31. Set up shot of \u003cbr/\u003e32. Close up of file\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Stuart Gunn, Project Manager for Caspian Environmental Programme\u003cbr/\u003e34. Pull out from docking base to wide shot of sea and fishermen\u003cbr/\u003e35. Mid shot of fishermen\u003cbr/\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eSeventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.\u003cbr/\u003eConstant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eNow local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.\u003cbr/\u003eFor decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.\u003cbr/\u003eToday the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.\u003cbr/\u003eThe soil glistens black with oil spilt from dripping pipelines and machinery.\u003cbr/\u003eUnder the Soviet Union when drilling was completed, oil wells were never sealed, and so oil poured onto the ground.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmentalists say that this highly visible devastation may be the least of the problems.\u003cbr/\u003eThey are concerned about more invisible materials such as radioactive and highly toxic waste leaking into the Caspian.\u003cbr/\u003eBroken pipes are repaired in a make-shift manner.\u003cbr/\u003eBut this is not enough to prevent gas hissing out.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ground is a helter skelter of old rusting pipes.  Today no one is quite sure where they lead to and what they carry.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"During the Communist regime, the main goal was the extraction of oil and nothing else.  Nobody cared about the environment, and our leaders every year made their plan to the centre in Moscow that we fulfilled the plan for this year, for the month and so on.  So that's why the situation is disastering (disastrous).\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement\u003cbr/\u003eScrap metal litters the coastline of Turkmenistan.\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough the metal could be recycled, the Turkmen government has made not effort to do anything with it.\u003cbr/\u003eLocal environmental groups now see foreign oil companies as their only hope to clean up the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"We should do a lot together, we should increase the awareness of the population first, to educate the population, to improve the economic situation, to spend money for this for the environment and we should force these oil companies to do something for this.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the companies, Monument, which operates in Turkmenistan, says it is trying to clean up areas which it has taken over.\u003cbr/\u003eContaminated soil has been removed and scrap metal cleared up.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's disorderly, it's messy, but most of the damage is superficial and surface related and with a bit of remedial work it can be cleared up.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Atal Gupta, General Manager of Monument Oil's Turkmenistan operation\u003cbr/\u003eOff-shore, oil platforms are allowed to rust.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the Soviet Union, drilling platforms were never reused, but were left to rot.\u003cbr/\u003eSome have imploded, others have keeled over into the sea.\u003cbr/\u003eDivers report that the seabed is a mass of metal.\u003cbr/\u003eNow a major project in underway to look at the main cause and extent of pollution within the Caspian.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Caspian Environment Programme is being funded by several bodies including the European Union, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility.\u003cbr/\u003eIt also involves state bodies from 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