April 28, 2014 Uncategorized Scientists find greater potential for soil CO2 storage A report determines that surface soils in Western Australia have the potential to store CO2 to a greater extent than…
April 28, 2014 Uncategorized Washington University receives €2.5 million for oxy-combustion research US Department of Energy has awarded St. Louis’ Washington University a €2.5 million grant for oxy-combustion research.
April 28, 2014 Uncategorized Construction of Shell’s CCS project, Quest, hits halfway point Shell Canada’s Quest CO2 Capture and Storage project has reached midway point in its construction process and the facility is…
April 28, 2014 Uncategorized CO2 capture pilot to be operated by CO2 Solutions and Husky Energy On April 15, 2014, CO2 Solutions entered into a collaboration agreement with Husky Energy under which it will operate a…
April 25, 2014 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Decades old radioactive waste storage site near Murmansk nears closure MURMANSK – Russia’s northwest territorial center for handling radioactive waste, RosRAO – formerly known as Radon – is conducting an…
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…
April 15, 2014 Uncategorized 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 industry…
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 Uncategorized Saskatchewan invests in CCS research The provincial government of Saskatchewan has announced a new funding agreement with the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) to support…
April 14, 2014 Uncategorized 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 Uncategorized 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…
April 14, 2014 Uncategorized 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
April 7, 2014 Bio-CCS, 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…
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…
