Oil and gas company Shell is forced to reroute oil and gas pipelines off the coast of Russia to protect the endangered western grey whale.
The environmentalists, however, weren?t satisfied by the move, and urge Britain's export credits guarantee department and other lenders to ditch the scheme.
Shell said an extra 12 miles of pipeline to circumvent a whale feeding area would not add greatly to the cost of the scheme.
Shell spokesman said, "It will have no discernible [financial] impact?, adding that the project was on schedule to pump oil next year and gas in 2007.
The authorities must give the green light to the route but Friends of the Earth believes there is still a risk to the whale unless a platform is moved, which Shell and its partners refuse to do.
"Shell has admitted the need to move the route of Sakhalin II, but unless it moves the oil platform, the future of the western grey whale is still in jeopardy," said Nick Rau, Friends of the Earth's oil campaigner.
