April 22, 2014 Arctic, Oil Russia’s dirtiest oil company to drill gas for Murmansk Region MURMANSK – Murmansk Regional Governor Marina Kovtun has announced that state oil monopoly Rosneft – whose fast and loose practices have […]
April 15, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage UN climate chief urges investments in CCS Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, called on the fossil fuel […]
April 14, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Baltic or Visaginas: Will any of the two nuclear neighbor-competitor plants get built? VILNIUS—As the Lithuanian government has it, Russia’s halting its Baltic Nuclear Power Plant project in Kaliningrad Region is a result […]
April 14, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Saskatchewan invests in CCS research The provincial government of Saskatchewan has announced a new funding agreement with the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) to […]
April 14, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage EU OCTAVIUS project reports encouraging findings on amine emissions OCTAVIUS-organised workshop establishes that emissions from amines, serving as solvents, pose minimal risk and should not act as an obstacle […]
April 14, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage European parliamentarians recognise CCS significance The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee recently adopted two resolutions, one of which concerns climate and energy. The resolution, which aims […]
April 14, 2014 Bio-CCS The IPCC confirms that Bio-CCS is a key technology The IPCC is meeting this week in Berlin to complete its third interim report. Last fall they told of the overwhelming scope of the climate […]
April 14, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Legislation signed to encourage enhanced oil recovery in Michigan Michigan Lt. Governor Brian Calley signed legislation that provides incentives for an oil recovery method allowing increased oil and natural […]
April 13, 2014 Climate change IPCC says world needs carbon negative solutions – We are glad that the IPCC so clearly points out that the world needs not only emission-free solutions, but even solutions that […]
April 10, 2014 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Northern Sea Route ‘no Suez canal,’ but imperils the Arctic more and more MURMANSK – The Northern Sea Route will not become an alternative to the Suez Canal, but nonetheless could be a viable maritime shipping […]
April 8, 2014 Renewable energy, Wind After years in the doldrums, wind energy projects in Murmansk see their sails filling MURMANSK – After a decade of drawing up blueprints for a 200-megawatt wind park in the Murmansk Region village of Teriberka, the Dutch […]
April 8, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences Greens, investors frustrated over EU’s delay in adopting new climate targets VILNIUS—The failure by heads of state and government of the European Union member nations to agree, at a recent European Council meeting, […]
April 7, 2014 Bio-CCS Going carbon negative with Bio-CCS Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) combined with biomass, known as Bio-CCS offers the only large scale means of going carbon negative. Carbon […]
April 7, 2014 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change The climate report of hope Two recent UN reports have established that we have a climate crisis. The third shows that there are solutions. Everyone should note the […]
April 3, 2014 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Russian Navy Russia, Norway urge raising of dumped Soviet-era nuclear subs MURMANSK – Two derelict Soviet-era nuclear submarines lying at the bottom of the Barents Sea present a real radiological risk to […]
April 2, 2014 Electric mobility Norway makes history in electric car sales, thanks to Tesla March saw the sale of 1,521 Tesla Model S sedan-type electric automobiles in Norway, making it the most popular model of any car ever to be […]
March 28, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage ZEP regrets absence of CCS from discussions on 2030 Climate and Energy Framework European Heads of State fail to mention CCS during the discussions on the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework at the Spring European Council.
March 28, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Report on the selection of geological sites for CO2 storage The European research project SiteChar has since January 2011 been working on the characterisation of European CO2 storage sites. Central to […]
March 28, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Study on the impact of religious faith on attitudes to CCS A research group at the University of Sheffield has conducted a study to investigate potential differences in the pro-environmental values […]
March 28, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage The government provides €72.5 million for CCS development The British government has declared that it wants the UK to be the best place in the world to invest in innovative new technologies. It […]
