September 29, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Why CCS is an essential part of the solution to climate change? A four-minute film launched on 22nd September 2014 by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) visualises the critical […]
September 29, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Qatar in the lead of CCS research The Qatar Carbonates and Storage Research Centre (QCCSRC) has been making a contribution to climate change mitigation through its research […]
September 29, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Additional funding granted to Otway Project for CO2 storage research Victoria’s Ministry for Energy and Resources has made an announcement of an additional EUR 4 million for research in CO2 storage at the […]
September 29, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Reconciling zero carbon emissions with economic growth A new report entitled Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in 2050: How Australia can prosper in a low carbon world, released on the 23 […]
September 25, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences Frederic Hauge’s NYC climate blog: Norway needs to feel some oil and gas pain to reach climate goals at home NEW YORK –Costa Rica says it will let its oil lie. Germany will not invest in new coal power plants. Norway is saving forests abroad, […]
September 24, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences Frederic Hauge’s NYC climate conference blog: Money can talk a climate-friendly language NEW YORK – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon could hardly believe it was the Rockefeller Foundation that caused the biggest news splash at […]
September 23, 2014 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Wanted: Someone to decide what to do with Russia’s radioactive debris at the bottom of the Arctic ARKHANGELSK – Spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste sunken in Russia’s Arctic seas are in close proximity to prospective sites for […]
September 23, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Rosatom claims international sanctions against Russia won’t stop international nuclear clean up efforts MURMANSK – The past decades of international support for projects aimed at cleaning up Russia’s Cold War nuclear legacy in the Arctic […]
September 23, 2014 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Work at Gremikha naval waste site continues on schedule, says Bellona’s Andrei Zolotkov MURMANSK – On September 17th, a group from the Murmansk Region’s Public Council on Nuclear Safety were allowed a trip to the Gremikha […]
September 22, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Draft IPCC report urges timely climate mitigation action A draft report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also called the “Synthesis Report”, highlights that ruling out […]
September 17, 2014 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Russian nuke industry lies in official documents to build new reactors in Smolensk SMOLENSK, Russia – In the course of public hearings on equipping the new Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) with the experimental VVER-TOI […]
September 17, 2014 Access to information, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia, Russian human rights issues Siberian nuclear installation to conduct new uranium experiments – but you didn’t hear it from them TOMSK, Russia – Earlier this month, the closed nuclear city of Seversk near Tomsk conducted public hearings on building a new uranium […]
September 3, 2014 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Successful safety drills conducted at Kola Nuclear Power Plant, though environmentalists are worried about elderly reactors MURMANSK – The Kola Nuclear Power Plant last week held a large-scale two-day long accident drill modeled on the conditions of the […]
August 12, 2014 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear Russia Fourteen years since Kursk sank environmentalists watch the seas for next catastrophe MURMANSK–Today, August 14, marks the 14 year anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine, which went down after an explosion […]
August 8, 2014 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage The UK seeks further CCS advancement Having already taken the CCS lead in Europe through supportive policies and two commercial scale projects under active development, the UK […]
August 8, 2014 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research comes out in favour of CCS A recently published study from the renowned German research institute affirms that combining the production of energy from fossil fuels and […]
July 30, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences Bellona calls for a more comprehensive ETS reform BRUSSELS – During the first two trading periods of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) we have observed a low and volatile […]
July 26, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Ecodefense brings suit against Justice Ministry for unlawful forcible inclusion on ‘foreign agent’ list ST. PETERSBURG – The Russian ecological group Ecodefense on Friday filed a petition in Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow asking that […]
July 23, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law BREAKING: Russian authorities officially brand four leading human rights organizations, Ecodefense as ‘foreign agents’ ahead of court decisions ST. PETERSBURG—Four of Russia’s most authoritative human rights groups and the environmental organization Ecodefense were on Monday […]
July 22, 2014 Oil, Russian human rights issues Vessel involved in Barents Sea oil protest finally returning home MURMANSK – Greenpeace’s Dutch-flagged Arctic Sunrise ship, arrested by maritime border officials in last September’s attempt […]
