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2013 (111)

ERC Bellona’s Nikitin says organization faces fines, but will immediately appeal sanctions if levied (23.05.2013)

Arctic Council adds six new observer nations, and signs agreement on oil spill preparedness (23.05.2013)

Mayor of Fukushima-devastated town: Say no to nuclear energy (23.05.2013)

Monitoring and tracking oil pollution in Russian Arctic flummoxes safety experts (22.05.2013)

Poorly attended public hearing on Arctic drilling still evidences dangers for northwest Russia (21.05.2013)

Climate experts to announce global climate time bomb will go off by 2040, says WWF's Kokorin (21.05.2013)

After Kremlin wrecking balls have leveled environmental legislation, the Aarhus Convention is a last, best hope (16.05.2013)

ERC Bellona’s Nikitin to meet prosecutors over administrative allegations next week (15.05.2013)

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority in danger of going soft on environmental crime (14.05.2013)

COMMENT: Bellona Visits Canada’s Boundary Dam and Quest CCS projects (13.05.2013)

Again turning away ERC Bellona executive director, prosecutors demand chairman Nikitin (13.05.2013)

Bellona’s St. Petersburg office receives prosecutors’ list of alleged administrative violations – and refutes them (10.05.2013)

COMMENT: He did it again: Putin renews vows to build more reactors on eve of Chernobyl anniversary (07.05.2013)

Thuggish arrests of activists and journalists mar Chernobyl anniversary march in Minsk, Belarus (06.05.2013)

The enduring glow of a radiation disaster: Villagers near Russia’s Mayak still struggle to survive on contaminated lands (03.05.2013)

Russian government crackdown on NGOs trains its sights on environmental groups (02.05.2013)

Andreyeva Bay and Lepse nuclear service ship remain major nuclear dangers to Northwest Russia (30.04.2013)

Mapping and accounting for sunken radiological hazards in Arctic devils Russian authorities (29.04.2013)

Cefic energy roadmap assesses the long-term potential for CCS in chemical industry (24.04.2013)

COMMENT: Baltic NPP project still struggling to secure investors, future selling markets (22.04.2013)

In order to have a dialogue, you have to prepare for it (18.04.2013)

Bellona Europa launches the discussion on the future of CCS in the European Parliament (18.04.2013)

Murmansk region pushing to extend old Kola NPP reactors – or build new nuclear plant (17.04.2013)

Bellona Murmansk summoned by local prosecutors to deliver documents (16.04.2013)

The Commission takes stock of renewable energy progress (15.04.2013)

US and China announced ‘urgent’ joint efforts to fight climate change (15.04.2013)

Russian authorities signal they will continue raids on NGOs in search of ‘foreign agents’ (12.04.2013)

Russian nuclear icebreaker Rossiya taking last voyage along Norway’s coast (11.04.2013)

Bellona St. Petersburg still awaiting prosecutor’s decision on fine (10.04.2013)

Election monitoring group becomes first target of new Russian NGO law (09.04.2013)

Russian NGOs blast Putin’s estimate they have received nearly $1 billion in last four months (09.04.2013)

Fukushima irradiated water storage tank springs gaping leak (08.04.2013)

Rat hunt leads to another power blackout to Fukushima cooling pond (08.04.2013)

Bellona’s St. Petersburg office meets with Norwegian PM Stoltenberg over Russian NGO crackdowns (05.04.2013)

ANALYSIS: Hungary eager to shed Russian-origin SNF: the story behind one damaged batch, and what to do with it (05.04.2013)

Russia still keeping Norway in the dark about secret radwaste shipments to Murmansk (04.04.2013)

EVENT: Bellona Europa organises a hearing on the future of CCS in the European Parliament, Strasbourg 16 April 2013 (04.04.2013)

Bellona calls for a revision of state aid rules in light of new ship recycling regulation – a tool to ensure compliance with international standards (04.04.2013)

Russia’s Lukoil says it will not drill in the Arctic (03.04.2013)

Bellona applauds a breakthrough vote to create an EU-wide ship recycling fund (02.04.2013)

Russian NGOs undergoing unprecedented Kremlin sweeps (02.04.2013)

CCS Leadership Coalition welcomes the CCS Communication (27.03.2013)

EU launches broad discussion on energy and climate policy goals for 2030 (27.03.2013)

European Parliament to prepare a report on the future of CCS (27.03.2013)

Los Angeles, California to go coal-free by 2025 (22.03.2013)

Norway levels country’s second largest environmental fine against Statoil for Gullfaks C incident (21.03.2013)

Rat may have caused Monday’s power shut-down at Japan’s embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant (21.03.2013)

UPDATE: Raid on Bellona’s St. Petersburg offices casts uncertain shadow over organization’s future (20.03.2013)

Preferred bidders in UK CCS competition announced (20.03.2013)

Bellona celebrates 10 years since first CCS hearing in European Parliament: The Road to the Hydrogen Society (19.03.2013)

Fukushima power outage to spent nuclear fuel storage ponds partially restored (19.03.2013)

Key role of CCS recognized in European Parliament’s Energy Roadmap 2050 resolution (18.03.2013)

BP trial turns a stark eye on Halliburton and Transocean (18.03.2013)

New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers (14.03.2013)

Analysis: Fukushima two years later (13.03.2013)

Road to Fukushima fraught with ongoing tragedy and innovations ignored (12.03.2013)

Displaced Fukushima survivors come to terms with never going home again (11.03.2013)

Tokyo demonstrates in force against nuclear power on eve of Fukushima’s second anniversary (10.03.2013)

Russia’s zeal to bank on rising Arctic melt spurs concerns of likely ecological toll (07.03.2013)

Statoil backs off drilling projects off Alaskan coast in line with Shell (07.03.2013)

CCS Leadership Coalition Letter to President Barroso and Commissioners (05.03.2013)

Russia pushing ahead with Arctic development in new strategy document (05.03.2013)

What happens if the A-bomb drops again – Norwegian Foreign Ministry conference seeks answers (04.03.2013)

ANALYSIS: Roof collapse at Chernobyl: What does it mean for Russia’s aged Chernobyl-type reactors? (03.03.2013)

Fukushima World Health Organization report greeted with broad skepticism (01.03.2013)

Shell suspends Arctic drilling plans this year – Norway’s Statoil to continue despite UN appeal (28.02.2013)

Expert witness against BP cites negligence and profit pursuit at safety’s expense in trial (28.02.2013)

BP seeks settlement prior to civil trials to open Monday – Bellona calls for court (25.02.2013)

Six tanks at Washington’s Hanford Cold-War site leaking radioactive sludge (25.02.2013)

Bellona celebrates CO2 capture in Brevik, Norway (25.02.2013)

Polish government's failure to transpose the CCS directive locks in emissions (25.02.2013)

CCS - the only way to achieve the CO2 reduction targets, the EU steel industry says (22.02.2013)

Bellona welcomes the agreement on offshore safety directive (21.02.2013)

New reprocessing plant tender in Russia aims for proliferation of fast neutron reactors (21.02.2013)

UN appeals to oil majors to leave the Arctic alone (20.02.2013)

Royal Navy sub returns to port with nuclear reactor coolant leak (20.02.2013)

Fifty-Five nation Coalition to slash short-lived climate pollutants marks its first year of progress (20.02.2013)

Between a rock and a hard place: How will US nuclear power compete with cheap shale gas? (19.02.2013)

Bellona welcomes the positive outcome of the back-loading vote (19.02.2013)

Russian nuclear officials report their sites unaffected by Chelyabinsk near-miss meteorite shower (15.02.2013)

Roof at Chernobyl’s ill-fated machinery hall collapses under heavy snowfall – no injuries or radiation leaks (14.02.2013)

Italian nuclear waste transport ship still awaiting work in Northwest Russia (14.02.2013)

Obama addresses environmental concerns in soft terms while wielding the big stick of the EPA (13.02.2013)

Bonanza for airlines under EU ETS creates billion-Euro boondoggle for passengers while carriers ignore climate issues (13.02.2013)

Olkiluoto 3’s new-generation reactor hits more delays, casting an ill light on its viability (12.02.2013)

Decarbonisation amendment tabled to the UK Energy Bill (11.02.2013)

ANALYSIS: Obama’s State of the Union must sell the climate challenge as war (11.02.2013)

Initiative to support second generation biofuels launched in Brussels (08.02.2013)

More concrete solutions for soot in the Arctic needed, says Bellona (08.02.2013)

Russian nuclear power plants start new year with new glitches (08.02.2013)

NGO group says ship dumping in Southeast Asian beaches reaching crisis proportions (05.02.2013)

ANALYSIS: Will Russia join international ecological conventions? (04.02.2013)

COMMENT: Hitachi should expect no state backing from Japan for reactor project in Lithuania (01.02.2013)

Keeping ship propellers and hulls clean is good for the environment and saves money (01.02.2013)

UK plans to build permanent nuclear repository near Sellafield struck down by local vote (31.01.2013)

Norwegian Labor party a puppet of special interests and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (31.01.2013)

US court approves historic $4 billion in penalties to BP over Deepwater Horizon spill (30.01.2013)

The UK Labour party introduces an amendment to require CCS for new gas power plants (29.01.2013)

Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bulgaria sunk by low voter interest in referendum (29.01.2013)

European Parliament stresses the need for commercial scale CCS development (28.01.2013)

Norway confirms great potential for CO2 storage (25.01.2013)

Russia’s nuclear power plants: Cruising planes with no landing in sight (25.01.2013)

Enforcement of Russia’s NGO law wavering as Justice Ministry rejects those who wish to register as foreign agents (23.01.2013)

Record cesium levels measured in Fukushima rockfish, signaling radiation woes in food chain far from over in Japan (21.01.2013)

Increasing public understanding of CCS: One man’s view of risk (18.01.2013)

Russian nuclear icebreaker traversing Norwegian waters, worrying Bellona (17.01.2013)

Crusading Russian lawyer and human rights champion Yury Schmidt dies at 75: A remembrance (16.01.2013)

Bellona calls for EU Member States to maintain oil spill response gap in the forthcoming EU directive on safety of offshore oil and gas activities (15.01.2013)

Launch of new Russia sub class to put more nuclear missiles at sea (14.01.2013)

New EU CCS Policy: "The most important document that the European Commission has produced on CCS for the last two years", says Frederic Hauge (13.01.2013)

New report casts shadow on Sellafield’s emergency preparedness (03.01.2013)