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Publish date: January 30, 2007
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According to the commission’s conclusions, the project materials correspond with Russian environmental legislation. The commission admitted environmental impact of the gas pipeline building is allowable.
The commission’s decision is valid for 10 years, RusEnergy reports. Konstantin Pulikovsky – leader of RosTeckNadzor ordered to carry out environmental expert evaluation on materials of Nord Stream feasibility study changes. The changes are connected to the plans to increase gas export up to 55 billion cubic meters a year.
Nord Stream is a gas pipeline. It is to be built through the Baltic Sea and connect Russian coast with Baltic coast in Germany. Its length is 1,200 kilometers. The pipeline is planned to be put in operation in 2010. The capacity of the first line of the pipe is planned to be 27.5 billion cubic meters a year. Building of the second line of the gas pipeline will increase delivery of gas to 55 billion cubic meters a year.
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.