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Until now, however, the land-based activities of the oil and gas industry have had a much more severe impact on the environment than marine activity. In particular the growth in hydrocarbon-related ac- tivity has destroyed the environmental balance of whole areas throughout the region. The hydrocar- bon industries generate toxic by-products, which in many places are not properly stored or have already been dispersed into the surroundings, as for exam- ple in some parts of the Apsheron peninsula and around the city of Aktau.

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