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2010 (163)

Environmental camp against clear cutting of Moscow forest disbanded by unknown masked youths (28.07.2010)

UPDATE: Russia’s Kola NPP still struggling after recent shutdowns and a slump in energy demand, but authorities remain unperturbed (27.07.2010)

Fire at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant shuts down No 1 reactor for two days (26.07.2010)

Twenty-five years on, Chernobyl still haunts affected areas as birth rates continue to dwindle (26.07.2010)

Bellona: Statoil’s decision to resume production at unstable well is irresponsible (23.07.2010)

Old safety concerns clamour for attention as bad weather causes emergency shutdowns at Russia’s Kola NPP (23.07.2010)

Bonn conference wraps up another bid for global climate agreement (13.07.2010)

Secret services’ new mandate puts icing on the cake of Russia’s decade-long crackdown on basic freedoms (12.07.2010)

Convicted scientist Syutagin forced to admit guilt in return for freedom and exile in spy trade (09.07.2010)

Torrefaction of wood pellets offers substitute to coal (07.07.2010)

Announced Greek 20-20-20 scenario a positive step, but plan needed for lignite (02.07.2010)

Rosatom celebrates first floating nuke plant, stumps target customer with unwanted present (02.07.2010)

National policy initiatives prove EU sustainable resource use possible (01.07.2010)

European Commission defends importance of bioenergy in achieving EU 2020 targets (30.06.2010)

Russia’s Atomflot reports ready for long-overdue decommissioning of old icebreakers, nuclear service ships (29.06.2010)

Bellona seminar: 10 years since Nikitin’s acquittal unites pessimism and optimism in desire to continue fight (17.06.2010)

Russia to pay for construction of obsolete reactors at Ukraine’s Khmelnitsky plant (17.06.2010)

Russia’s leader Medvedev shows progressive “green” thinking, concrete measures yet to follow (17.06.2010)

Expert hearing held on forthcoming EU Nuclear Waste Directive (15.06.2010)

COMMENT: Obama to address America on Gulf of Mexico oil spill Wednesday evening (15.06.2010)

Law and disorder in Russia (14.06.2010)

Commission adopts guidelines for monitoring and reporting emissions from CCS (13.06.2010)

First commercial CCS plant to operate in China by the end of year (10.06.2010)

Giant overhauls in offshore drilling to be more than a facelift, government tells congress (09.06.2010)

Bellona attends SET-Plan European Industrial Initiatives Launch (08.06.2010)

Obama looks to ‘kick ass’ as BP’s spill containment efforts continue amid unclearness of spill’s flow rate (08.06.2010)

COMMENT: Austria joins the club of angry nations outraged by Belarusian nuke project (08.06.2010)

URGENT: Radioactive ship reported sunk while moored near Russia’s Murmansk, authorities keep mum (07.06.2010)

UPDATE: New BP containment cap funnels 11,100 barrels daily while US officials warn combating oil to continue for months if not years. (07.06.2010)

Obama vents promised frustration on BP while scientists confirm undersea oil plumes (05.06.2010)

BP awaits results from new containment method as Obama takes his anger to Gulf today (04.06.2010)

BP finally shears riser pipe after broken saw fails as Obama announces surprise visit to Gulf of Mexico (04.06.2010)

UPDATE: Obama again calls for clean energy as stuck saw halts BP’s efforts to staunch Gulf oil flow and oil sheen approaches Florida (03.06.2010)

US Attorney General launches criminal investigation into Deepwater Horizon spill (02.06.2010)

Arrival of hurricane season in Gulf of Mexico adds new fears over continuing Deepwater Horizon oil spill (01.06.2010)

Russia at risk of reviving old SNF import saga, making Murmansk possible port of entry (31.05.2010)

UPDATE: BP’s Suttles admits that top kill is most recent in string of failures to stop Gulf leak, and options are running short (29.05.2010)

Technician reports that BP may announce failure of ‘top kill’ procedure Saturday afternoon (29.05.2010)

BP again stops top kill efforts without announcement during Obama visit to Deepwater Horizon leak (29.05.2010)

As Obama touches down in Louisiana BP piles junk shot on top of top kill (28.05.2010)

EU recommendation to move to 30% blocked by member states (28.05.2010)

UPDATE: BP resumes top kill and admits it has shut the process down twice, as well as losing one of its live stream cameras (28.05.2010)

BP halts top kill effort while spill size surpasses Valdez, fishermen fall ill and Obama ‘angry and frustrated’ (27.05.2010)

Teriberka mayor: I don’t believe in Shtokman (27.05.2010)

BP sheds more light on steps leading up to disaster in Gulf of Mexico, as detailed in congressional memo (26.05.2010)

Louisiana governor, federal officials vent anger at BP as oil pushes further into marshlands (25.05.2010)

Groups try to agree on Gulf spill size as oil pushes into Louisiana’s marshlands (24.05.2010)

Risk of blowout on Norway’s Gullfaks C: Statoil has no control over the situation, says Bellona President Hauge (21.05.2010)

Bellona takes part in the third annual Financial Times’ Mediterranean Sustainable Energy Summit in Athens (21.05.2010)

Roundtable held on Alberta tar sands in Brussels (19.05.2010)

BP information black out spreads like oil spill (19.05.2010)

Grand Isle and other Louisiana bayou communities under oil siege (18.05.2010)

BP’s improvised oil siphon showing progress in controlling Gulf leak, but US government agencies question the point (17.05.2010)

Lithuania rallies against prospects of getting trapped in a nuke noose (17.05.2010)

Elusive spill remains hidden undersea as it sends up evidence of its presence in wildlife and tar balls (16.05.2010)

With press and politicians gone, Venice oil spill containment effort moves behind the barren town’s closed doors (15.05.2010)

BP video may confirm spill 10 times worse than thought as tar balls make mainland and bayous buckle down (14.05.2010)

Bright prospects for solar plan (14.05.2010)

Gulf fishing waters narrowing as Congress fries oil execs on Capital Hill (13.05.2010)

Gulf shrimpers’ future all but gone as more tar and dead sea life seen on Dauphin Island (12.05.2010)

New ideas for low-carbon power investment (12.05.2010)

Local sea captain and Mississippi citizens’ action group demand realistic responses from BP over massive Gulf leak (10.05.2010)

Lithuania says official, decisive “no” to Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (08.05.2010)

Ice crystals block deployment of BP containment dome as Gulf Islands see oil sheen and tar (08.05.2010)

In New Orleans' French Quarter, people rely on magic and a little reefer to stop the BP oil geyser (08.05.2010)

Possible health risks from oil weigh on Gulf Coast mayors (07.05.2010)

Mississippi fishing and vacation community wants to enjoy last normal days before catastrophe strikes – again (07.05.2010)

Oil makes landfall in Louisiana as BP positions its containment funnel (06.05.2010)

Officials say Gulf spill could grow as lawyers, including Robert Kennedy, Jr. bring suit against BP (05.05.2010)

See pictures of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (05.05.2010)

Greece: Brave new renewable energy bill introduced by Greek government in parliament (05.05.2010)

BP’s hope at plugging Gulf leak hinges on giant funnel to be deployed Thursday (05.05.2010)

Fighting for clean solar energy in Europe (05.05.2010)

Chemical dispersants seem to be keeping oil from Gulf shore, but results may range from simply cosmetic to very toxic (04.05.2010)

European Parliament environment committee votes to allow Member States CO2 regulation of power plants (04.05.2010)

Oil industry reps begin to reveal cause of Gulf oil blowout (03.05.2010)

Bellona President Hauge says Gulf spill oil industry’s Chernobyl (03.05.2010)

Obama arrives at oil slick as questions of how to stop the leakage linger (03.05.2010)

Weather hampers expanding oil spill clean up as Obama heads to Gulf environmental disaster (01.05.2010)

Obama ramps up involvement in what observers say could be oil spill worse than Valdez (30.04.2010)

We are very late in coming to the climate fight, Bellona tells heavy-hitting New York debate (30.04.2010)

Medical and environmental groups coalition warns of weak IED (30.04.2010)

Coolant system mishap at Japan’s long-stalled Monju fast breeder sends cautionary note to other nations pursuing same technology (29.04.2010)

Senator John Kerry says climate and energy bill to remain under wraps until immigration issue resolved (28.04.2010)

Bellona meets Medvedev on state visit to Oslo to pressure environmental recovery in Murmansk (28.04.2010)

Splits among key authors of US climate and energy bill cast pall over passage this year (27.04.2010)

Bellona president arrives in Washington with high hopes of joining the US climate debate (26.04.2010)

Comment: State oppression machine vs. environmentalists – next stop, Samara? (26.04.2010)

Comment: Belarus’ Lukashenko – We have weapons-grade uranium and we intend to keep it (22.04.2010)

EU biofuel platform recommends research and investment into algae (21.04.2010)

Unyielding Russian politics could have dire consequences for the climate (21.04.2010)

Are Murmansk’s nuclear hazards getting the short shrift on federal money earmarked to clean them up? (20.04.2010)

US Senate panel to hear CCS bills Tuesday while Obama tries to push climate bill reading in spring or summer (19.04.2010)

Bellona St. Petersburg energy forum hears big bucks in the wind (19.04.2010)

ECF launches Roadmap 2050 (15.04.2010)

While US breaks ground on CCS demonstration plant, World Bank shocks globe with huge loan to carbon emitter (14.04.2010)

Russia and US sign deal to dispose of plutonium that chagrins international enviro groups (14.04.2010)

Comment: Gazprom’s secret society, or who will profit from Shtokman backroom dealings? (13.04.2010)

Ukraine relinquishes nuclear stockpile at Washington summit, while MOX plutonium disposition plan gets boost (13.04.2010)

Could Russia emerge as a nuclear security leader at two-day US weapons summit? (12.04.2010)

Russia and US sign dramatic new arms pact – that still has a long way to go (08.04.2010)

NGO coalition backs tabled amendments to Industrial Emissions Directive (02.04.2010)

Obama offshore oil drilling plans brings critics from environmentalists as well as industry proponents (01.04.2010)

Obama lifts 20-year moratorium on offshore drilling for parts of the US continental shelf while banning it on others (31.03.2010)

International fuel bank in Russia gets go-ahead from IAEA to industry cheers and environmental dismay (30.03.2010)

Greek Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry announces € 5.5 billion plan for green development (29.03.2010)

Moscow and Washington reach new lows in new nuclear arms treaty (27.03.2010)

Congress defends Yucca while Senators suggest White House roundtable with industry on nuclear prospects (25.03.2010)

Belarus unveils latest folly, resuscitates eccentric mobile nuke plant project (25.03.2010)

Russian government battle rages around wrenching more energy from coal or energy efficiency to maintain gas exports (23.03.2010)

Russia, Northern Europe become closer partners in joint bioenergy projects (22.03.2010)

Comment: Czech environmental minister resigns in dust up over coal plant retrofits (22.03.2010)

Democratic Senators advance climate bill, but colleagues fret over pre-empting EPA and local authority (19.03.2010)

Environmental groups bring foreboding proof to the public about Russia’s new radioactive waste bill (18.03.2010)

BEST (17.03.2010)

Comment: Concentrating solar power - an important step for Greece’s green leap forward (16.03.2010)

Russia anxious to position itself in the vanguard of climate change solutions (15.03.2010)

Lithuania indignant over neighbouring Belarus’ nuclear project safety claims (12.03.2010)

Obama convenes key Senators to hammer out wish list for stalled US climate bill (11.03.2010)

Battle to revise Russia radioactive waste bill continues as enviro groups are shut out of the dialogue (10.03.2010)

EU pushes worldwide binding standards on nuke plant builds while France leads way with possible Chernobyl II (08.03.2010)

Bellona and Norwegian government put emphasis on helping environmental protection in Ghana (04.03.2010)

Putin announces $1.77 billion for new reactor builds, and earmarks another $2billion for fast reactor production (02.03.2010)

Ceremonial first stone laid for Baltic Nuclear Power Plant in Kaliningrad (01.03.2010)

Vermont State Senate votes to close tritium leaking nuclear power plant, tarnishing confidence in Obama nuke build-out plans (25.02.2010)

‘Hybrid’ US climate legislation likely to back track on some environmental promise to throw big bones to industry (23.02.2010)

Murmansk lawmakers pass radwaste bill that will turn Kola Peninsula into a nuclear dump (23.02.2010)

When and how will Shtokman be launched? (22.02.2010)

PRESS-RELEASE: Bellona urges Rosatom head to expedite Lepse decommissioning (22.02.2010)

Russian green politician faces termination for criticising scam to build lush summer homes on nature preserve (18.02.2010)

Obama announces $8.3 bln loan guarantee to US nuclear power plant in an upset to many environmentalists (17.02.2010)

Murmansk authorities spurn environmentalists – and the environment (16.02.2010)

Russia, Sweden accused of complicity in poisoning the Baltic with radioactive waste in Swedish TV documentary (15.02.2010)

European Parliament resolves to call Copenhagen outcome ‘disappointing,’ and doles out blame (11.02.2010)

Chief US climate negotiator reflects on Copenhagen Accord (11.02.2010)

Nominees to US NRC confident of quick confirmation, but plagued by tritium leaks at US nuke plants (10.02.2010)

Greece oddly snubbing billions in European Union NER 300 funding for carbon capture and storage (09.02.2010)

Government report indicates Norway wants to ship radioactive waste to Russia in 'unacceptable' move (09.02.2010)

Obama budget proposes federal funding infusion into US nuclear power (08.02.2010)

Kola Nuclear Power Plant first hides, then downplays incident (04.02.2010)

Landmark EU decision to finance CCS (03.02.2010)

Environmentalists urge Russian parliament to revise controversial bill on radioactive waste management (02.02.2010)

World nations take first steps toward realising the Copenhagen Accord on first deadline (29.01.2010)

Radioactive dump still a toxic issue for Russia’s Angarsk (29.01.2010)

Biased European Parliament hearing puts spotlight on Emissions Performance Standard (29.01.2010)

Obama State of Union address couches clean energy in terms of jobs, steering clear of emissions and cap-and-trade (28.01.2010)

Obama’s State of the Union address to face tough audience over climate struggle (26.01.2010)

Moscow ratifies key reform to Strasbourg court, Bellona hopes to see better justice in Russia (26.01.2010)

Alaska Senator aims to stop US Environmental Protection Agency emissions controls, drawing the eyes of the world (25.01.2010)

Murmansk readying for gas supplies from Shtokman in move that worries environmentalists (21.01.2010)

US Senate loses key 'yes' vote for climate change bill in Massachusetts special election (20.01.2010)

Total inaugurates Lacq CCS project (20.01.2010)

With no panel to study alternative US nuke waste sites, could Yucca Mountain's bones be creaking back to life? (19.01.2010)

Micronesia challenges Czech coal plant extension (18.01.2010)

Denmark’s Hedegaard favours deeper emission cuts and keeps open mind on EPS (15.01.2010)

Emergency reactor shutdown at Russia’s Volgodonsk NPP: Concerns rise over plant’s safety (14.01.2010)

The death penalty and the Espoo Convention (13.01.2010)

Lithuania shuts down Soviet-era NPP, but being a nuclear-free nation is still under question (12.01.2010)

Chernobyl area doctors and researchers contradict predicted UN mortality figures as being far too low years after disaster (11.01.2010)

US Environmental Protection Agency proposes stricter new standards for smog regulation (07.01.2010)

Despite US criticism of Copenhagen and Congressional stagnation, US states unilaterally shoulder climate change burden (06.01.2010)

Russia joint venture releases possibly crackpot plan to build small lead cooled fast reactors for remote areas (05.01.2010)

Head scratching over what is next for Copenhagen Accord internationally and in US Senate (04.01.2010)


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