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Publish date: April 29, 2010
Written by: Veronica Webster
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Energy supplier E.ON has recently abandoned plans to build a 550 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Wilhelmshaven, and a local electricity company in Düsseldorf has cancelled plans to build their own 400 MW plant.
The Wilhelmshaven plant was allegedly abandoned as the technology required to achieve an efficiency rate of more than 50 percent was not yet ready for commercial use. The Düsseldorf plant did not allegedly go through due to environmental pressure and economic concerns.
In total, nine projects have been stopped in Germany in the past year for different reasons. Other projects include energy companies GDF Suez and EnBW new 800 MW coal plant in Stade, which was abandoned due to a ruling against noise pollution by a local court. A list of abandoned coal projects can be downloaded here.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.