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Publish date: April 29, 2010
Written by: Veronica Webster
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The newsletter highlights the recent findings derived from a feasibility study on the co-combustion of lignite and biomass in the pilot plant at Schwarze Pumpe. The study has now been completed and the results show major potential for using biomass in co-firing in the Oxyfuel process.
The study has concluded that co-firing would be possible and the results indicate that it could be done with low risk, with the effects on CO2 emissions “being considerable” given that it could create carbon negative energy production.
The newsletter reports that the feasibility study has identified legislative issues and fuel supply as potential risks involved in the realisation of co-firing of biomass.
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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.