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[ 18.05.2012 ]
The key to CCS is the long-term business case
“We have to provide an affordable technology to the developing world for it to come out of poverty in an environmentally acceptable way,” Paal Frisvold, chairman of the board at Bellona Europa, said as he opened the 3rd Annual Brussels Carbon Capture & Storage Summit 2012 on 15 May in Brussels.
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Foto: Total E&P UK Ltd

[ 16.05.2012 ]
Elgin Platform gas leak in North Sea has been stopped, says platform owner Total
Total has succeeded in plugging a well at its North Sea Elgin platform that has been leaking gas for more than seven weeks, the French oil group told reporters on Wednesday in a statement.
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Беллона

[ 16.05.2012 ]
ANALYSIS: Belarusian leader commemorates Chernobyl by waxing enthusiastic about nuclear power, but why would Lukashenko want a new nuclear power plant?
MOSCOW – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced Belarus would be willing to build a second nuclear power plant (NPP) – in addition to the site Russia’s Rosatom is already building in that country. The announcement came, controversially enough, on the day when Belarus and the rest of the world commemorated the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986.
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still from "Shpiony Ponevole"

[ 16.05.2012 ]
Bellona’s renowned human rights champion and nuclear expert Alexander Nitikin turns 60 today
Former Russian nuclear submarine captain Alexander Nikitin, winner of the Goldman Prize for protexting the environment, Russia’s first Amnesty International-declared Prisoner of Concience since Andrei Sakharov and current Chariman of the Environmental Right Center (ERC) Bellona turns 60 today.
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[ 15.05.2012 ]
Toxic Russian battle cruiser on Norway’s shores to undergo unique dismantling after rusting in shallows for more that a decade
Christmas afternoon 1994 and the weather is stormy at sea. A tugboat is towing a 17,000-ton Soviet-era battle cruiser around Norway’s northern coast in Finnmark to India for dismantling. Snap – the tow line breaks, and after two days of fighting the squalls and wind, the cruiser Murmansk runs aground on the pebbles near Sørvær Island in the Hasvik municipality of Finnmark.
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Total

[ 14.05.2012 ]
Total confirms drop in gas leaking from Elgin Platform as preparations to stem it continue
Total is still waiting for weather to clear before beginning the long-awaited dynamic kill effort on its leaking Elgin Platform in the North Sea, said the company’s CEO Thursday, adding a sweeping claim – with a hint of proof – the amount of gas leaking from the structure’s G-4 well has dropped by some three quarters.
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[ 10.05.2012 ]
Fate of original US-Russian nonproliferation program unclear as Senator Lugar loses Indiana elections
Far from the political fray, as the United States celebrated the end of the Cold War and the fracturing of the Soviet Union into several states each with their own nuclear weapons, Senator Richard Lugar – who was voted out of his 35-year old senate seat Tuesday - saw through the confetti and party hats and identified a brewing catastrophe.
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AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel

[ 09.05.2012 ]
Beaten but not crushed: Russia’s opposition remains undeterred as newly sworn-in Putin clamps down
ST. PETERSBURG – Fresh from Monday’s inauguration ceremony, Russian president Vladimir Putin begins his new term on a resounding note of schizophrenic disparity with thousands who are dismayed by the prospect of six or more years of his rule and – despite violent attempts to quash the growing dissent – not afraid to fight anymore.
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Bellona

[ 09.05.2012 ]
Bellona starts working on CCS Roadmap for Ukraine
The Bellona Foundation has started work with its Ukrainian partners to develop a CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) roadmap for Ukraine. With the aim of showcasing CCS feasibility and presenting a deployment strategy, the report will be Bellona’s fifth of the kind.
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NEWS
[ 20.10.2011 ]
Baltiysky Zavod drops appeal against impounding world’s first floating nuclear power plant

The Russian Legal Information Agency has reported that the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard has dropped its appeal against a court decision to impound the world's first floating nuclear power plant, which it is helping to build, World Nuclear News reported.

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[ 17.10.2011 ]
UK removes final hurdle to CO2 storage industry

Prior to the summer the UK government ran a public consultation regarding proposed changes to the licensing and leasing of offshore energy in UK waters. The Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment (ONSEA2) expands provisions to include renewable energy sources and CCS.

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[ 10.10.2011 ]
Global CCS Institute publishes its report on CCS status for 2011

The Global Status of CCS: 2011 report is the Institute’s main publication and gives a solid overview of the current global CCS activities, as well as the major opportunities and challenges experienced by large-scale integrated CCS projects.

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[ 10.10.2011 ]
CCS community needs to clarify its demands for incentive

On the 4th of October the General Assembly of the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP) took place, with an increasing sense of urgency that the platform needs to be clearer about what public policies it wants to make CCS commercially viable.

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[ 10.10.2011 ]
CCS in Germany – Game Over?

For more than two years, international observers have been struggling to grasp the complicated political game(s) in Germany surrounding the country’s transposition of the EU directive on CO2 storage. A holistic summary of the facts and the ‘noise’ around that issue has just been published today on GCCSI’s website.

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[ 07.10.2011 ]
PGE officially opens new 858 MW Power Generation Unit

On the 28th of September PGE (Polska Grupa Energetyczna) officially opened Poland's first power generation unit foreseen to be retrofitted with carbon dioxide capture.

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BLOGS

EcoClean can clean the air from aluminum rooftops

[ Postet 28.07.2011 13:39 i Michelle Lanning Blog av Michelle Lanning ]
Scientists have developed ´EcoClean´ technology to combat heavily concentrated smog pollution in cities.
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Monchegorsk: turning “yellow”

[ Postet 22.07.2011 09:40 i Larisa Bronder's blog ]
Upgrading the environmental status of Monchegorsk
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White House falls behind on it´s solar power promises

[ Postet 25.06.2011 20:55 i Michelle Lanning Blog av Michelle Lanning ]
9 months after President Obama promised to reinstate solar panels on the white house, they are still no where to be seen.
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Playing by the rules (on paper)

[ Postet 10.05.2011 00:00 i Larisa Bronder's blog ]
On paper, one of the strong points of the Kola branch of Norilsk Nickel is its commitment to transparency in providing accurate information, including environmental data. In reality, ecological information is often concealed.
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