
The fragile environmental coalitions cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
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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.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
The following speech was given by Bellona nuclear expert Dmitry Gorchakov at the Arctic Frontiers conference, which was in session this week in Troms...
Social media are ablaze after Bellona founder Frederic Hauge met Motvind’s Eivind Salen on Norwegian national broadcaster NRK’s Debatten program last night.
"Maritime transport along the Northern Sea Route remains a bad idea. Even with a warmer climate, cold, wind and darkness will define the Arctic winter," said Bellona's Senior Adviser Sigurd Enge to a packed hall at the Arctic Frontiers conference.