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[ 21.11.2008 ]
Humankind’s push-pull approach to nuclear power controversy adds weight to proliferation menace
KALININGRAD/ST. PETERSBURG - Having put the frightening years of the Cold War behind it, the world has all but forgotten about the threat of nuclear proliferation – only to find itself staring right in the face of this ever escalating problem. While many politicians at least have the awareness to confront the issue and are finally advocating total nuclear disarmament, their noble goal may just be too remote a dream as long as mankind does not renounce nuclear energy completely.
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[ 20.11.2008 ]
Obama renews campaign climate goals in speech to California climate conference to international approval
NEW YORK - US President-elect Barack Obama's renewal of his campaign promise to work to reduce emissions to 1990 levels ny 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050 is a "huge signal" of encouragement to countries negotiating a new climate pact, the head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat said on Wednesday.
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[ 20.11.2008 ]
EU’s Zero Emissions Platform backs Bellona’s figures for CO2 reductions in Europe
All European businesses, researchers and organizations that comprise the European Union’s Technology Platform on Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP) are backing Bellona adviser Aage Stangeland’s figures for potential CO2 capture and storage in Europe.
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Anna Kireeva/Bellona

[ 19.11.2008 ]
Murmansk conference on Arctic oil and gas drilling focuses on environmental considerations
MURMANSK - The fourth international conference on oil and gas on the Russian Arctic Shelf took place Tuesday under the aegis of developing the Shtokman field under the Barents Sea, and focused on the environmental dangers of the colossal oil- and gas-drilling project.
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[ 19.11.2008 ]
EC pushes more reliance on renewable energy with a focus on wind
BRUSSELS - The European Commission said that, “it will be necessary to develop further the use of oceans and seas to promote the European Union’s energy goals” in its communiqué on an energy policy for Europe.
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NEWS
[ 15.11.2008 ]
Russia to dismantled all decommissioned nuke subs by 2012, says Zvezdochka

Russia will dismantle all decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines by the beginning of 2012, according to Vladimir Nikitin, general director of the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, northern Russia as quoted by the RIA Novosti Russia newswire.

[ 11.11.2008 ]
Russian and Indian media report accident sub was to go to Indian navy

India's navy was supposed to lease the brand-new Russian nuclear submarine that suffered an accident over the weekend that killed 20 people, Russian and Indian news reports said Monday.
[ 11.11.2008 ]
Finland to put renewable, as well as nuclear, power to use to establish energy independence

ST. PETERSBURG - Finland’s new energy strategy envisions the portion of the country’s power coming from renewable sources to be 38 percent by 2020.

[ 11.11.2008 ]
Australian against exporting uranium, poll says, which could have consequences for Russia

A new poll suggests a majority of Australians are against the export of uranium to countries that have nuclear weapons, pointing to the unpopularity of a multi-million dollar uranium import deal between Austrialia and Russia.

[ 10.11.2008 ]
Climate and Oceans conference pushes for all IMO members to act together to cut maritime CO2 emissions

BRUSSELS - European Commission member Mark Major said at the Climate and Oceans conference on November 5th organised by Seas At Risk that, “steps are made forward, but all the actors need to act together.”

[ 03.11.2008 ]
Methodological order on nuclear oversight comes into effect

ST. PETERSBURG - Nikolai Kutin, head of the Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technical and Nuclear Oversight (Rostekhnadzor) on Friday issued a decree codifying a method for nuclear oversight and assuring compliance with federal regulations for nuclear energy use, as well as setting licensing conditions for building nuclear energy installations.

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BLOGS

Hush little baby, don’t you cry, Papa’s gonna buy you a …nuclear plant

[ Posted 28.04.2008 12:19 in Galina Raguzina's blog by Galina Raguzina ]
It just so happened the other night that I had a dream – and I remembered it. It’s an extraordinary event, basically, because for the most part, either I don’t dream at all or I don’t remember what I’ve just dreamt about. Shortly after that, another event occurred, and a truly extraordinary one this time: A bunch of complete strangers chose our city – the city I was born in and where I live, and where my mother and my children live – they chose our city for nothing else than building a new nuclear power plant.
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The Duma has no ecology committee - the only war we are fighting is against ourselves

[ Posted 14.01.2008 13:59 in Vladimir Slivyak's blog by Vladimir Slivyak ]
MOSCOW - In 2000 the Russian state organ for dealing with the environment was abolished, and late last month, the Ecological Committee of the Duma was scratched. They actually waited some time before closing the doors.

The climate summit Bali: A comparative cultural study

[ Posted 10.12.2007 10:58 in Eivind Hoff's blog ]
I know it may sound dubious, but the last time I attended an international summit was also in tropical East Asia, also in December (I did not get any tan then, though, and neither will I get it here in Bali). It was when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its last ministerial conference in Hong Kong. But those are about the only apparent commonalities between the two summits.

Among scooters and SUVs in Bali

[ Posted 07.12.2007 16:32 in Eivind Hoff's blog by Eivind Hoff ]
As my muscles tense by my taxi’s slalom-driving on busy Bali roads on the way to my first UNFCCC climate summit, I am struck by the odd mix of vehicles on the road. Actually, I would go as far as saying that this mix epitomises the international climate debate between rich and poor.
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BELLONA IN MEDIA
[ 05.11.2008 i St Petersburg Times ]
Ecologists Slam Nuclear Power Plant
[ 30.10.2008 i underdusken.no ]
NTNU involved in disputed industry - it will always be a dirty industry, says Bellona
[ 21.10.2008 i BarentsObserver ]
Murmansk Oblast focuses on renewable energy
[ 26.09.2008 i St Petersburg Times ]
Ecologists: 10,000 Tons Of Waste Headed for City
[ 30.04.2008 i Taipei Times ]
Mega-markets’ movable global feast levies high pollution cost

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