April 17, 2018 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Major Russian polluter pledges to turn over a ‘green’ leaf on national television In a wide ranging appearance on Russian national television, Vladimir Potanin, the president of Norilsk Nickel, a long-time, heavy-duty […]
April 16, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Under lash of new sanctions, Moscow threatens to upend nuclear power trade with US In a sign of worsening relations between Moscow and Washington, a draft bill before State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, would […]
April 16, 2018 Climate change, Transport Letter: Environmental safeguards needed for CCU fuels in the Renewable Energy Directive In light of the trilogue on the RED II taking place in early May, Bellona has, together with Transport&Environment, Zero Waste Europe, […]
April 13, 2018 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Industrial Pollution Building with Low Carbon Cement is Affordable Recent studies looking at cement production, which accounts for around 5% of global CO2 emissions (ECA, 2018), show that costs associated […]
April 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s decommissioning of historic reactor hobbled by bumbling secrecy The reactor at Obninsk, Russia, long hailed as the first nuclear installation in the world ever used to commercially produce electricity, […]
April 10, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Nuclear Power Wildly Popular in Russia, Independent Poll Shows Nearly 74 percent of Russian citizens want their government to maintain and develop the country’s nuclear industry, a sector they consider […]
April 9, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia says it can pay for Turkey’s first nuclear plant by itself Russia’s energy minister has said Rosatom, the country’s state nuclear corporation, is prepared to finish Turkey’s first nuclear power […]
April 5, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Putin attends ceremonial kick-off for Turkeys’ troubled nuclear plant Vladimir Putin went to Turkey for the groundbreaking of a $20 billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant to be built by Rosatom, Russia’s state […]
April 4, 2018 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Dangerous pollution spike at Kola nickel plant draws fine, despite promised improvements Russia’s environmental oversight agency has said it will fine a nickel smelting and refining company in Northwest Russia after it produced […]
April 2, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia announces it will dismantle one of its nuclear icebreaking stars Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet has announced it will dismantle one of its star players, the Soviet-era behemoth the **Arktika,** a […]
March 23, 2018 Electric mobility, European Union, Future energy system Transitioning from niche to reality: revised EU legislation can foster mass replication of electric bus success stories Buses carry around half of all public transport passengers, accounting for around 8% of the EU’s transport emissions. As part of the […]
March 20, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom reportedly offering unlikely floating nuclear power deal to Sudan Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, in an apparent effort to expand its portfolio of deals abroad, has said it will build a […]
March 19, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law As Putin begins fourth term, Russia’s nonprofit sector continues to erode The results of yesterday’s presidential election in Russia surprised exactly no one and Vladimir Putin has swept to power once again for […]
March 16, 2018 Climate change, European Union, Transport IPCC Conference: Transport and cities key for decarbonisation The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change held a conference in Edmonton, Canada earlier this month to discuss recent findings and share […]
March 13, 2018 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet The environmental side of Putin’s threatening speech, annotated by Bellona President Vladimir Putin’s address to parliament last week will be remembered for reigniting a Cold War with its threats of new invincible […]
March 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Seven years after meltdown, Fukushima’s recovery still decades away Seven years ago, on the afternoon of March 11, 2011, one of the biggest earthquakes ever measured sent a wall of water rolling toward […]
March 8, 2018 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Will changes to the US Budget Act of 2018 incentivise CCS in the US? CCS in the US has over the past decade or so been primarily linked to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as its main driver. The recently passed […]
March 7, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Are Putin’s threatened missiles already polluting Europe with radioactivity? Maybe The speech Russian President Vladimir Putin gave last week, in which he threatened to make the world, particularly the United States, listen […]
March 6, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian-built nuclear plant in Hungary faces EU lawsuits Luxembourg is joining Austria in suing the European Commission for allowing Hungary to expand its Paks nuclear power plant with […]
March 5, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian nuclear icebreaker reactor sets troubling run-time record As Russia races to build a new series of flashy high tech nuclear icebreakers, some of its older Soviet-era behemoths are being pushed to […]
