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Publish date: January 30, 2006
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According to the chairman of Murmansk regional committee of natural resources and environment Nikolay Bichuk, the price of the equipment is one million US dollars. This equipment is one of the points of the Agreement between Murmansk region and Statoil, signed the previous year, standing the start up of its execution, Bichuk told.
Nowadays Russia does not execute the main international demand. It does not provide information about content of transported oil. There is no special laboratory in Murmansk region, that is why we are not ready to prevent or eliminate large scale catastrophes, Bichuk mentioned. The laboratory is planned to be located in Murmansk center of standardization and metrology, which has special technologies and specialists, Interfax reported.
The chairman of the committee detailed that this laboratory is only a part of the Russian-Norwegian program of partnership. According to Bichuk, Statoil also allocates about one million US dollars to re-equipment of Murmansk center of oil spills liquidation, responsible for environmental safety of the Western Arctic.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
But it’s unlikely to impact emissions from shipping along the Northern Sea Route.
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.
The following op-ed, written by Bellona’s Charles Digges, originally appeared in The Moscow Times. In recent months, the Russian nuclear in...