December 2, 2015 Climate change, International climate conferences Putin speaks the language of a climate convert, but do his plans back up his rhetoric? PARIS – Many in Paris were surprised by seemingly big plans Russian President Vladimir Putin – a long time global warming skeptic […]
December 1, 2015 Climate change, Fossil fuels, International climate conferences Subsidies lock the world into oil and coal dependence, experts tell Bellona PARIS – Governments throughout the world spend astronomical sums to subsidize coal, oil and gas, and heavy sponsorship of the worldwide […]
November 30, 2015 Climate change, International climate conferences As make-or-break climate summit kicks off, Bellona to emphasize CCS and other technologies World leaders addressed the UN climate summit that kicked off in Paris Monday, with US President Barack Obama calling the summit a […]
November 25, 2015 Climate change, International climate conferences UPDATED EVENTS SCHEDULE: Paris 2015 – COP21: What will be on? Throughout the two weeks of the climate conference, Bellona will have a joint pavillion with CICERO/CICEP, Yara and the Norwegian Ministry […]
November 24, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences The EU CCS renaissance – what’s brewing in Central Europe? PRAGUE – Late last week, in the distinguished company of people like Czech climate and environment legend Bedrich Moldan, I had the honor […]
November 20, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games BREAKING: 11th hour prosecutors’ appeal torpedoes Russian eco-prisoner Vitishko’s Saturday release In a major legal upset, a 10-day-old court decision that would have freed Yevgeny Vitishko – Russia’s most prominent environmental […]
November 19, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Rosatom praises NGO cooperation on nuclear cleanup plans MOSCOW – Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, offered words of thanks to NGOs and foreign partners for […]
November 18, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom deal with Hungary faces derailment for violating open tender stipulations The European Commission is reportedly striking down a project to build two new reactors for Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant in a deal […]
November 17, 2015 Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian icebreaker fleet to dismantle vessels at Sayda Bay under new plan Russia’s nuclear icebreaker port Atomflot is examining the possibility of dismantling nuclear icebreakers at Sayda Bay’s facility of […]
November 17, 2015 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution Huge amounts of banned agricultural chemicals still stored in Kalush, Ukraine KALUSH, Ukraine – From 2011 to 2014 large amounts of hexachlorobenzene, or HCB – an agricultural fungicide banned since 2004 by the […]
November 12, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Foreign funds have almost entirely rid Russia of orphaned radioactive power generators Russia has almost entirely rid itself of more than 1,000 small radioactive power sources that have for nearly half a century powered […]
November 11, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Kola nuke plant to prolong reactor operating times and boost power output MURMANSK – Despite its surplus of unneeded energy, the Kola Nuclear Power Plant plans to extend the operational lifespans of first two […]
November 10, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Russian eco-prisoner to walk free on conditional release in 10 days Yevgeny Vitishko, the imprisoned Russian environmentalist was Tuesday granted a conditional release during an appeal hearing for a […]
November 9, 2015 Access to information, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Environmentalists skeptical about Russian plans to seal off radioactive lake The complete remediation of a radioactive lake near Russia’s notorious Mayak Chemical Combine is said to be nearing completion by Nuclear […]
November 6, 2015 Climate change, Oil BREAKING: As Obama sinks Keystone, European environmentalists require more of their own governments US President Barack Obama on Friday killed Canada’s bid to build the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline program in a manner that Norwegian […]
November 5, 2015 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian Defense Ministry confirms portable nuclear reactor development Russia’s Defense Ministry has announced plans to develop a line of small-scale mobile nuclear reactors that can be deployed from trucks […]
November 5, 2015 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution From Kalush to collapse: one Ukrainian city’s life on a lethal chemical stew KALUSH, Ukraine – Welcome to the city of Kalush, a former mining city on the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, located in the Western part […]
November 4, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia names 100th ‘foreign agent’ in baffling new crackdown on NGOs and foreigners The Russian Ministry of Justice has named a total of 100 “foreign agents” NGOs as of this week, and has tabled a new bill that would […]
November 2, 2015 Climate change, Electric mobility, Future energy system, International climate conferences Russia’s electric grid commits to electric car infrastructure Electric car charging points will soon being to sprouting in Moscow, one of the world’s most traffic-congested cities, after a subsidiary […]
October 28, 2015 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Radioactive storage site near Murmansk to be clean by 2020 MURMANSK – Russia’s first radioactive materials storage site north of the Arctic Circle, known formerly as Radon, has reached the final […]
