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Publish date: November 25, 2005
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“Nowadays we do not have plans to invest in oil refinement, said Finlayson. The largest Shells investment sector is upstream (hydrocarbons investigation and extraction). In Russia Shell rapidly develops oil products marketing and builds its petrol stations, mostly in Moscow and St Petersburg. Today Shell has 10 petrol stations in St Petersburg and plans to build some more, Interfax reported.
Shell won a tender in Moscow in 2003 for building petrol stations with alternative fuel in the frames of Moscow city program of alternative fuel management. The goal of this program is to substitute petroleum fuel of municipal transport with gas fuel.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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.