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[27.02 2012] The state of nuclear and radiation dangerous sites in the Northwestern Russia. Challenges and solution prospects

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Northwest Russia Renewable Energy Forum

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NUCLEAR MELTDOWN IN JAPAN

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SAHARA FOREST PROJECT

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ARTICLES

[ 08.02.2012 ]

Russian NGOs face surprise audits under new amendments to legislation

ST. PETERSBURG – The Russian Parliament, or Duma, was host to a round table discussion on tightening the bolts on activities for the country’s embattled non-governmental organizations, which have over the past several years been subjected to more and more onerous scrutiny from and pressure by the government.

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beyond-serentiy.de

[ 07.02.2012 ]

EU takes lead on plans for decarbonisation

BRUSSLES – The European energy industry, NGOs, academics and other experts agree that the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) is in need of fixing and the European Commission is aiming at a decision on EU climate and energy targets for 2030 within the next two years.

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current.com

[ 05.02.2012 ]

UPDATE: Fire breaks out at central Moscow nuclear research institute

A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research center that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, emergency officials reported as Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom said the blaze had not been accompanied by any open flames and posed no threat of a radiation leak.

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Bellona Europa

[ 03.02.2012 ]

Too much, too fast, too soon? The future of the Arctic in the times of ‘cold rush’

BRUSSELS – Environmentalists, oil and gas industry representatives, the European Commission and certifiers of oil and gas installations were in agreement that the risks of oil and gas operations in the Artic are far greater than in most other places in the world during a European Parliament conference on Wednesday.

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Wikimedia Commons

[ 01.02.2012 ]

Small traces of Iodine-131 mysteriously appear throughout Barents Sea region

While authorities in Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland have detected insignificant concentrations of the radioactive isotope Iodine-131, the numerous Russian nuclear industry installation on the neighboring Kola Peninsula are denying responsibility for the residues.

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Bellona Europa

[ 31.01.2012 ]

European offshore safety meeting: “It’s when we think we have everything under control that we are the most vulnerable”

BRUSSELS - "We need common minimum EU rules for offshore safety," said Frederic Hauge, president of The Bellona Foundation, on behalf of the environmental movement at the Commission’s stakeholder meeting on 31 January for the proposed regulation for offshore safety.

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Bellona archive

[ 29.01.2012 ]

COMMENT: Russia hits rock bottom on environmental protection – will it hear the impact?

MOSCOW – Russia’s woeful environmental record in the past ten years has earned it the lowest score in a new global ranking of countries’ pollution reduction measures and management of natural resources, a recent Financial Times (FT) story reveals. Given the widespread lack of environmental awareness and a political system steeped in corruption, this is one disastrous achievement – but hardly a surprising one.

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Bellona

[ 28.01.2012 ]

Eight months after disastrous May spill, oil pollution still threatens White Sea coast in Russia’s north

An unscheduled inspection carried out late last year by the Russian federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, at the Belomorskaya oil bulk plant on the shore of the White Sea in Russia’s north revealed the enterprise had still not removed the cause of the ecological disaster it had been responsible for last May – an oil spill that severely polluted over 600,000 square meters of the shoreline and basin of Kandalaksha Bay.

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[ 27.01.2012 ]

Russia’s flagship nuclear icebreaker to cross northern seas, worrying neighboring states

MURMANSK – Russia’s 50 Let Pobedy (Fifty Years of Victory), the flagship of the Russian nuclear icebreaker fleet, departs on January 27 from its port of registration, Murmansk, setting out on a voyage to the Baltic Sea, where it is expected to convoy capsize bulk carriers calling into ports of the Gulf of Finland – a prospect that has Russia’s northern neighbors concerned over the risks of a nuclear vessel passing along their coastlines.

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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 12:39 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 08:40 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 19:55 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 09.05.2011 23:00 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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