More than half the gas under discussion would originate in still-unexploited fields in eastern Siberia, including Kovykta, which will require massive investment.
The families were told of the wrongly installed gas outlet in discussions over the weekend that Skinner referred to as "open disclosure of the facts around the births".
Russia is Europe's main external energy supplier, and disputes over natural gas have dominated discussions between Moscow and the bloc for years.
Amid concern about coal emissions linked to global warming, he said, his company's clients have tripled the number of natural gas projects under discussion.
From the perspective of greenhouse gas mitigation, the discussion on economic instruments has shifted from CO2 taxation towards emissions trading in the international context of the European Union and the Kyoto Protocol.
But on Tuesday, with National Guard troops firing tear gas at antigovernment protesters, discussions aimed at ending the strike began.
Europe, for example, would love to reduce its dependence on natural gas from Russia, and discussions about exploring for shale-gas reserves are taking place in Germany, Hungary and Romania, as well as Poland.
Howard Wolfson, a deputy city mayor, said that discussions about gas rationing began shortly after the storm ended but took on urgency only after it became clear that it would continue longer than anyone in the industry or region had said.
Although little progress has been made in the two countries' discussions about gas extraction in the East China Sea, China has not aggressively pushed its claims to an exclusive economic zone stretching close to Okinawa.
In September, Sanford's town board unanimously approved a resolution to bar any more discussion of gas drilling at its monthly meetings because the issue was taking up too much of its time.
