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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 18.01.2012 ]
COMMENT: Mobile nuclear meltdowns: Coming soon to a town near you?
MOSCOW - Some three hundred nuclear time bombs are to cross the vast expanses of Russia within the next dozen years as Moscow embarks on its plan to send special-purpose trains with spent nuclear fuel (SNF) burnt at the country’s commercial reactors to a storage facility in Siberia. That’s the “solution” the nuclear industry has come up with for the ever mounting problem of nuclear waste – take it cross-country and pile it up where it will threaten the environment and public health for generations to come.
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energydigital.com

[ 16.01.2012 ]
ANALYSIS: China, Japan take the lead in wind energy development – Russia lags far behind
MOSCOW – China has taken online its largest offshore wind farm yet – another step toward the goal of boosting the share of wind energy in China’s total energy production to 17 percent by 2050. While China prefers buying new green technologies, Japan seeks to come up with its own – such as the innovative “wind lens” design that could triple the output of wind turbines and help smooth the transition from nuclear power to cleaner and safer energy sources. Russia, alas, seems in no hurry to realize its own immense wind energy potential.
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mainichi.jp

[ 16.01.2012 ]
COMMENT: Russia ignoring case for beefing up nuclear disaster preparedness plans – even at risk of losing moscow to a fallout plume in major accident
MOSCOW – All nuclear power plants are dangerous. Each and every one of the world’s reactors in operation is inherently susceptible to an accident – something even the nuclear industry would acknowledge is true. But where countries like Japan strive to learn the tragic lessons of nuclear disasters such as the recent catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi, Russia, which remains a staunch proponent of nuclear energy, fails to take the potential threat seriously and prepare adequate population protection measures.
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[ 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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