January 29, 2015 Industrial Pollution Russian ministry demands environmental upgrades from world’s biggest nickel company MURMANSK – Rinat Gizatulin, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, has demanded that Norilsk Nickel – the […]
January 26, 2015 Industrial Pollution First campaign in Northwest Russian to temporarily halt pollution comes to nothing MURMANSK – As last year drew to a close, the Murmansk Region’s Ministry of Ecology Natural Resources promised to support an initiative […]
January 26, 2015 Shipbreaking Fewer ships scrapped on Asia’s beaches 2014 saw great improvement, but still five Norwegian shipowners send ships for scrapping on Indian beaches.
January 26, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage “EU needs CCS target” recommends Directive review The CO2 Storage Directive (also known as the ‘CCS Directive’) has recently undergone a review process to assess its effectiveness. The […]
January 20, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change ETS Reform – Where are we now? The first two trading periods of the European Union’s Emission Trading System (EU ETS) were marked by a low and volatile carbon price, […]
January 19, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Utilities feign interest in CCS to get public bail out Fossil power utilities make a play to monopolise the European CCS debate. Why? To short-sitedly protect their ageing and polluting […]
January 14, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Fossil fuels 80% of coal reserves need to stay in the ground A new study from the University College London (UCL) Institute for Sustainable Resources assesses the scale of fossil fuel reserves that can […]
January 13, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Major St. Petersburg rights group called ‘foreign agent’ by Russian Justice Ministry ST. PETERSBURG – Citizens’ Watch, an influential St. Petersburg-based judicial and law enforcement watchdog, returned from the Russian […]
January 13, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Research on CO2 storage to enjoy increased funding On 17 December 2014 the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) made an announcement for an additional €3 million to be […]
January 13, 2015 Arctic, Energy Efficiency, Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Murmansk efforts at energy savings innovations to find funding in electricity contracts MURMANSK – As the Murmansk region has over the last four years spent more than a billion rubles on energy efficiency projects, Bellona […]
January 12, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Future energy system, International climate conferences What to expect from the Latvian EU Presidency? Latvia, one of the smallest EU Member States with the fastest growing economy in the Eurozone, took over the rotating EU Presidency on 1 […]
January 5, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian environmental group continues battle to clear its name under ‘foreign agent’ law ST. PETERSBURG – Ecodefense, the first Russian environmental group designated a “foreign agent” by the Justice Ministry, continued its […]
December 19, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Uranium production waste in Angarsk: Proposed eviction with no forwarding address is premature ANGARSK, Irkutsk Region, Russia—The Russian uranium enrichment enterprise Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine (AECC) admitted at a […]
December 18, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Environmentalists locate illegal fence that landed Sochi critic Vitishko in prison KRASNODAR, Russia – Bellona, other environmental groups and the Krasnodar Region’s Ministry of Natural Resources established the […]
December 14, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences Bellona President Hauge sums up Lima as steering the world toward hotter water United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change at the summit in Lima, Peru, where 194 […]
December 11, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russian reactor power experiments, extended run times spooking environmentalists Ecologists are getting more uncomfortable with the fact that not just Russia is tinkering around with the science of extending the usual […]
December 10, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Year in review – CCS on the move This has arguably been the most momentous year for CCS in quite a while. The opening of the world’s first full-scale commercial CCS […]
December 8, 2014 Arctic, Industrial Pollution Murmansk’s ecological problems and their solutions, as presented by Bellona MURMANSK – Bellona Murmansk held a day of lectures to local institutes of higher learning on the regions environmental problems – and […]
December 8, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Fossil fuels Germany’s coal problem remains Bellona is pleased to see that the German government is finally realising that unabated coal is incompatible with any form of climate […]
December 8, 2014 Arctic, Gas, Oil Russian oil expert says falling oil prices a threat to Arctic projects – but not a deal-breaker MURMANSK – One of Russia’s fundamental national priorities is developing hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic zone, but the lack of […]
