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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.
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.