Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Publish date: May 15, 2006
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British Centrica is looking for new perspective gas suppliers, as its main gas field to be depleted in the nearest future. Gazprom can become such a supplier, RusEnergy reported.
Nowadays Gazprom supplies Britain with 2% of gas via continental gas pipelines, but the company intends to increase its supplies by 20%. The goal can be achieved if Gasprom sells gas to Great Britain on basic of long term contracts. Another way to achieve this goal for Gasprom is to buy a gas distribution company in the UK.
“We are in the process of preliminary negotiations with various companies, including Gasprom, as we are oriented to the level of needs we will have in a couple of years”, a representative of Centrica said.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.