September 2, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Will the full rage of Arctic climate change make Obama’s Alaska trip less ‘hypocritical’? As President Barack Obama alighted in Alaska on Monday for his touted tour of the effects that climate change has already wreaked on […]
September 2, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Yet another US-China deal on CCUS collaboration, while we keep waiting for a project to materialise On 26 August 2015 during the US-China Clean Coal Industry Forum which took place in Billings, Montana, the world’s two largest […]
September 1, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Russian nuclear official pleads guilty to defrauding US-Russia nonproliferation agreement Russian nuclear official Vadim Mikerin pleaded guilty in a US Federal court Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and […]
September 1, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, International climate conferences Obama will urge aggressive climate action on three-day trip to Alaska As President Barack Obama today heads to Alaska to press his reinvigorated climate message, he does so against a background of hopefulness […]
August 27, 2015 Nuclear Russia Russian nuke station offers discount prices as demand sags – with a few ecological pitfalls Russia’s Kola Nuclear Power Plant has been forced to offer power it produces to prospective buyers at a 10 percent discount electricity […]
August 26, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia announces second floating nuclear plant as new problems plague its first Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced it will launch another floating nuclear power plant produced in 40 percent less […]
August 26, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Disposing of plutonium cheaper and safer than making it fuel, says leaked US report A faltered US disarmament agreement with Russia has left Washington considering far cheaper and effective means of dispensing with 34 tons […]
August 24, 2015 Climate change, Electric mobility Norwegian MPs push for all cars to be electric in 10 years Norway’s Liberal Party has suggested that the country make a full switch to electric cars by the year 2025, ridding its roads entirely of […]
August 20, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian official to plead guilty in US court over graft in cooperative nuclear weapons destruction program Vadim Mikerin, a former executive with the Russian state nuclear fuel conglomerate Tenex has agreed to plead guilty in the US to money […]
August 19, 2015 Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia launches nuclear battle sub retrofitted for underwater research Russia has released a rejuvenated nuclear submarine down the slipways at the Zvezdochka Shipyard after it underwent “in-depth” repairs […]
August 19, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Nordic CCS Summer School held in Norway From 9 to 14 August 2015 the second NORDICCS’ CCS Summer School was held in Porsgrunn and Trondheim, Norway. NORDICCS is the Nordic CCS […]
August 18, 2015 Climate change, Gas, Oil UPDATE: Obama targets oil and gas industry methane leakage President Barack Obama has announced his second blockbuster climate initiative within a month, issuing for the first time ever a federal […]
August 18, 2015 Climate change, Gas, Oil Obama, EPA to announce new rules for methane in oil and gas industry The Obama Administration will today propose first of a kind regulations to reduce emissions from the oil and gas industry of methane, a […]
August 17, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Obama to visit Alaska against background of climate change – and fears of oil drilling fans President Barack Obama would travel to Alaska at the end of this month to visit the front lines of US climate change, which he called “one […]
August 17, 2015 Shipbreaking Norwegian Shipowners to stop beaching In an op-ed in Dagens Næringsliv, the largest daily business paper in Norway, Norwegian Shipowners Association and their CEO Sturla […]
August 14, 2015 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet World’s largest nuclear icebreaker nearing completion in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has complete the bow section of the much anticipated Arktika nuclear icebreaker, which has been trumpeted […]
August 12, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia’s Kursk sub disaster anniversary highlights 15 years of polished deception The sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine 15 years ago today etched a monolithic capstone to Russian nuclear naval ineptitude that had been […]
August 11, 2015 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan restarts first reactor since Fukushima disaster amid protest and concerns over new regulator Amid vociferous public opposition, Japan on Tuesday restarted the first of more than 40 atomic reactors that were taken out of service in […]
August 10, 2015 Arctic, Renewable energy Villages in Russia’s Arctic make coveted progress with renewables energy MURMANSK – A coupe of tiny settlements above Russia’s harsh Arctic Circle are offering a glimpse of the kind of economic savings and […]
August 6, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Should the new Obama Clean Power Plan boost expectations for Paris? NEW ORLEANS – President Obama’s new rules to help slash emissions from existing US power plants has propelled Washington into an […]
