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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)

Australian government awards €3.5 million to algae (26.07.2010)

Strategic partnership formed between TPG and 2Co to provide CCS solutions (26.07.2010)

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)

Commission adopts legislative proposal to end coal aid (20.07.2010)

CIUDEN starts activities in first experimental CO2 storage plant in Spain (19.07.2010)

EU’s ‘big-three’ express resolve for greater emissions cuts (19.07.2010)

Stakeholder meeting held on CCS Directive (15.07.2010)

New federal bill a boost for CCS investments in Germany (15.07.2010)

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)

New report assesses potential risks of CO2 leakage (12.07.2010)

Timely implementation of CCS necessary to avert climate change, says report (12.07.2010)

CCS application in gas-fired power stations gaining ground in the UK (12.07.2010)

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

US: Department of energy announces $67 million investment for carbon capture development (09.07.2010)

UK: Department of Energy and Climate Change says new CCS competitions to be launched this year (09.07.2010)

CNPC building CCS project in Inner Mongolia (09.07.2010)

Report delivers positive outlook for global status of ccs projects (08.07.2010)

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)

Rotterdam Climate Initiative holds first CCS Seminar for the Regions (01.07.2010)

Study on long term effectivness of geological and ocean CO2 storage (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)

Enzyme can drastically reduce costs of CO2 capture (28.06.2010)

Internal EU fight on prolongation of coal subsidies (25.06.2010)

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announces $1 billion for CCS (25.06.2010)

Seminar on black carbon held at European Parliament (25.06.2010)

Bacteria can help store CO2 safely (25.06.2010)

Polish municipalities to directly benefit from CCS projects (25.06.2010)

Committee advises UK government to extend CCS to gas (23.06.2010)

World is failing to meet CCS targets, says IEA (23.06.2010)

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)

CO2 capture proves cheaper than expected (17.06.2010)

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

US can eliminate CO2 Emissions from coal by 2030 according to experts (16.06.2010)

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)

Hungary announces termination of Vertesi coal-fired power plant (09.06.2010)

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)

Agreement between EU and Norway provides CCS opportunity (02.06.2010)

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)

Bellona co-hosts first international workshop on bio-CCS (31.05.2010)

Endesa, CIUDEN & Foster Wheeler sign CCS contract with European Commission (31.05.2010)

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)

CANADA: Aiming to capture carbon by 2012 (28.05.2010)

Czech green environmental movement inconsistent on CO2 storage research (28.05.2010)

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)

Study on CO2 storage in carbonates (27.05.2010)

ABU DHABI: Masdar completes prequalification process for carbon capture project (26.05.2010)

THE NETHERLANDS: EU State Aid - Netherlands Is Authorised To Provide Upto €10 million Sate Aid For Nuon's CO2 Capture Project (26.05.2010)

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

FRANCE: Carbon-capture demonstrator (25.05.2010)

FRANCE: Total working on French CCS project – The France Nord project (25.05.2010)

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)

CHINA: China and Australia has launched web-page for geological storage of CO2 (20.05.2010)

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)

Dutch government commits €150 million to large-scale CCS project (18.05.2010)

New report on the future of EU in 2030 stresses need for common energy policy (18.05.2010)

UCL publishes overview of EU Directive on Geological Storage of CO2 (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)

US - Interagency Task Force on CCS meets for first time (10.05.2010)

USA - Senate Energy Committee adds CCS and wind amendments to energy bill (10.05.2010)

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

CHINA - China's first carbon capture demonstration project has captured nearly 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide after one year operation (09.05.2010)

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)

New research lab will lower price of CO2 capture (06.05.2010)

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)

SASOL signed agreement with Gassnova on participation in the Technology Center Mongstad (04.05.2010)

NORWAY - Major setback for CCS in Norway (04.05.2010)

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)

EU devises strategy to promote greener vehicles (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)

More coal projects fall through in Germany (30.04.2010)

CO2 emission performance standard to be investigated, says Hedegaard (30.04.2010)

Vattenfall CCS newsletter highlights biomass and lignite co-firing (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)

EU: The realities of storing carbon dioxide (28.04.2010)

NORWAY: CO2 field lab launches web-page (28.04.2010)

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)

US: Turning carbon into cement (20.04.2010)

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)

SPAIN: Government transposes EU Directive on geological storage of CO2 into national law (19.04.2010)

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

ABU DHABI: Statoil betting big on carbon capture technology (16.04.2010)

Public debate revisited on Barendrecht CO2 storage (15.04.2010)

No nuclear energy revival in the EU (15.04.2010)

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)

IRLAND - CO2 storage offshore Irland (13.04.2010)

CO2 Capture Project - Storage, Monitoring and Verification (13.04.2010)

Notre Europe releases report on a European Energy Policy (13.04.2010)

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)

Russian and Norway to sign and present joint audit of nuclear safety programmes (12.04.2010)

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

NORWAY: DNV releases CO2 storage guideline (07.04.2010)

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

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)

Growing support for Romania CCS laboratory (31.03.2010)

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

Study shows CO2 emissions to cause local pollution (30.03.2010)

Complex underground coal gasification – making coal clean? (30.03.2010)

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)

US: EPA proposes emissions reporting for CO2 storage site (24.03.2010)

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)

CO2 storage in a box: laboratory scale CO2 sequestration experiments (22.03.2010)

UK launches Office of CCS (22.03.2010)

Scottish Parliament opposes plant plans without CCS (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)

Russian coal: a new challenge (16.03.2010)

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

UN launches CCS roadmap project (15.03.2010)

By 2030, 10 % of EU CO2 emissions could be avoided by using CCS (15.03.2010)

Saudi Arabia speeds up CO2 plans (15.03.2010)

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

Lobbying begins for €10 billion nuke plant in Poland (15.03.2010)

UK: Awards FEED study funding (12.03.2010)

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

EU approves grant for steel CO2 capture project in Germany (11.03.2010)

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

New project studies CCS public communications strategies (10.03.2010)

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

Lidové noviny, 26 February 2010, section: Diskuse (Polemics) (09.03.2010)

Free ETS permits may not be the answer, new report says (08.03.2010)

RWE CEO holds low electricity prices responsible for potential energy insecurity (08.03.2010)

Conference on Nuclear Waste and safety held in Brussels (08.03.2010)

Oxford University publish paper on EOR and Carbon Sequestration Co-optimization (08.03.2010)

UN, Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and GCCSI announce CCS roadmap project (08.03.2010)

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)

Move to phase out unabated coal blocked in UK (01.03.2010)

Emissions caps effective if supported by additional regulation, says McKinsey (01.03.2010)

Member states and national emission standards: “a carbon riddle” (01.03.2010)

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)

CCS needs tighter emission standards (24.02.2010)

Eastern Europe may become new nuclear waste depository (23.02.2010)

‘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)

Fortum and Maersk co-operate on CCS project in the North Sea (20.02.2010)

Assessment of the Czech plant challenged by Micronesia (19.02.2010)

UK criticises weak ETS and calls for tougher regulation (19.02.2010)

CIUDEN puts Foster Wheeler Energía in charge of Fluidized Bed Boiler at CO2 Capture Technology Development Plant in León, Spain (19.02.2010)

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)

Landmark EU decision to finance CCS (16.02.2010)

Call for a CCS Action Plan on large industrial point emissions in Norway (16.02.2010)

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)

CIUDEN awards FOSTER WHEELER ENERGIA the Fluidized Bed Boiler for its CO2 Capture Technology Development Plant in El Bierzo, Spain (08.02.2010)

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

UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme launches website (05.02.2010)

Obama announces creation of CCS Task Force (05.02.2010)

GDF Suez and EnBW abandon plans for Stade coal plant (05.02.2010)

Carbon market uncertainty may contribute to unaffordable energy bills in UK (05.02.2010)

Alliance formed to move CCS for cement forward in Spain (05.02.2010)

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

Landmark EU decision to finance CCS (03.02.2010)

£2bn bid for carbon capture pipelines in Northern UK (03.02.2010)

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

Understanding Carbon Capture and Storage Potential in Indonesia (01.02.2010)

B&W Captures CO2 in Coal-Fired Pilot Plant Tests (01.02.2010)

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)

Micronesia wins first round (29.01.2010)

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

New report on CCS in Poland analyses important to-do list (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)

Canada has started looking at developing guidelines for storing CO2 underground (27.01.2010)

Cemtrex Commences Carbon Dioxide Capture Pilot Test Program (26.01.2010)

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)

CCS in Japan: METI plans to drill an investigative well to demonstrate CCS technology (23.01.2010)

Indian makes molecule suck carbon dioxide (22.01.2010)

US DOE publishes manual for CCS Public Outreach programmes (21.01.2010)

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)

Norway supports international roadmaps for CO2 capture and storage (18.01.2010)

Micronesia challenges Czech coal plant extension (18.01.2010)

WWF file complaint to EC against Germany for neglecting key Carbon Storage Directive provision (15.01.2010)

Coal-intensive Poland announces CCS project (15.01.2010)

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)

Russia’s Nerpa sub to undergo ‘fine tuning’ next month (12.01.2010)

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

No progress on CCS under UN’s CDM at COP15 (11.01.2010)

Dutch NGO-industry coalition presents statement to Dutch PM urging further regulation (07.01.2010)

CCS part of €35bn French “grand loan” (07.01.2010)

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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