November 5, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Fukushima accepts international help before embarking on removing spent nuclear fuel from damaged storage The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has offered to lend a hand to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) in its efforts to decommission […]
October 31, 2013 Carbon Capture and Storage Leadership changes in Bellona Europa After twelve years as head of Bellona’s EU office in Brussels, Paal Frisvold is leaving his position as Chairman of the Board on 1 […]
October 30, 2013 Ukategorisert European Parliament’s COP19 resolution As the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP 19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approaches, the European Parliament […]
October 30, 2013 Ukategorisert Markets maintain carbon bubble ignorance Carbon Tracker and the ACCA release a new report on the carbon bubble, this time focusing on the failure of markets to fully recognize the […]
October 18, 2013 International climate conferences, Oil Murmansk environmentalists demand safe drilling technologies before Russia pursues Holy Grail of Arctic oil MURMANSK – A robust group of Russian environmental organizations concluded here on Wednesday that drilling oil in the Arctic is – in the […]
October 17, 2013 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy IAEA comes to Murmansk to tote up nuclear safety roadblocks passed – and those to come MURMANSK—Gathered for a meeting in the Russian polar city of Murmansk, experts from ten countries discussed efforts in assuring global […]
October 17, 2013 Russian NGO law Bellona’s St. Petersburg office clears one court hurdle in ongoing legal hassles for Russian NGOs A positive sign emerged in Bellona St Petersburg’s court proceedings over fines levied against it during this spring’s unprecedented […]
October 15, 2013 Carbon Capture and Storage Ukraine must clear CCS hurdles now lest it run into a brick wall later KIEV – Bellona Monday became one of the first NGOs to introduce the concept of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to government ministries, […]
October 14, 2013 Carbon Capture and Storage BREAKING: Norway’s state budget and CCS Norwegian state budget allocates 18.5 million euro (NOK 150m) to the remainder of the Mongstad project for this year, with a budget of 450 […]
October 13, 2013 Carbon Capture and Storage Press Release: One technology holds key to significant CO2 reduction in Ukraine KIEV – Bellona will over the course of the coming week be presenting its investigations on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) options for […]
October 11, 2013 Oil Bellona files police report against Statoil over six years of chemicals leaked into Norwegian Sea A disposal well in the Norwegian Sea owned by Norway’s state oil company Statoil leaked 3,428 tons of hazardous chemicals and oil based […]
October 10, 2013 Oil Pirates and pot heads: Silly new allegations waft over Greenpeace’s accused buccaneers In an announcement surprising only in its tardiness, the Russian Investigative Committee said yesterday it discovered hard drugs aboard […]
October 8, 2013 Oil Russian authorities risk sinking Greenpeace boat, keep prisoners in ‘inhumane’ conditions MURMANSK—Greenpeace’s icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise, still in Russian impound, may become an environmental threat for Kola Bay if it […]
October 3, 2013 Oil Russian investigators press piracy charges against all aboard the Arctic Sunrise MURMANSK –Murmansk’s Lenin District Court closed out another day of marathon hearings by charging with piracy all remaining activists, […]
October 2, 2013 Oil BREAKING: Murmansk court begins marathon day of charging Arctic Sunrise activists and crew with ‘piracy’ Seven from the crew of the Arctic Sunrise, the Greenpeace vessel that launched dinghies of activists to scale a Barents Sea oil platform two […]
September 30, 2013 Oil Murmansk court jails remaining eight Arctic Sunrise activists and crew for two months before trial Murmansk’s Lenin District court Sunday sent the remaining eight Greenpeace activists and crewmembers who participated in a protest against […]
September 27, 2013 Oil Arctic Sunrise activists to sit in jail as Russian prosecutors try to make ‘piracy’ charges stick A court in Murmansk has remanded to custody all 30 members of a Greenpeace protest action, which involved an attempt to board a prized […]
September 27, 2013 Climate change An order to act (for the climate) The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now 95 percent sure that global warming stems mainly from human […]
September 26, 2013 Gas, Oil UPDATE: Putin puts all chips on Arctic oil development in Salekhard as courts begin jailing Greenpeace activists MURMANSK – Russian plans to develop Arctic oil and gas fields at any cost, including unprecedented tax subsidies, despite oil majors’ […]
September 25, 2013 Arctic Second ever cargo crossing of Northwest Passage overflows with environmental dangers In a week when the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change is supposed to unveil its much anticipated fifth assessment report – which […]