Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, March 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.
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Publish date: April 29, 2011
Written by: Niklas Kalvø Tessem
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This is the first phase of the Wyoming Carbon Underground Storage Project (WY-CUSP) in the Rock Springs Uplift in Sweetwater County. The US$16.9 million project is managed by the Carbon Management Institute (CMI) at the University of Wyoming and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. There will initially be drilled a 600 meter deep top hole. Then the work starts to drill a 4300 meter deep stratigraphic test well. The main drilling is estimated to last about 100 days.
– The start of drilling at the WY-CUSP site represents the first concrete step toward actual demonstration and commercialization of CO₂ sequestration in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region, says CMI Director Ron Surdam, according to Carbon Capture Journal.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium – Today, the European Parliament approved the newly revised Construction Products regulation (CPR)...