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Publish date: April 11, 2006
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The Council of the Public Chamber considers the building of the pipeline ESPO to be an important geopolitical project for development of Russia. At the same time, the current variant of this project does not exclude a danger for Baikal Lake, which contains one fifth of the fresh water world resources. According to the current project, the route of the pipeline will go through the territory of the World Natural heritage, 800 metres from Baikal Lake.
Representatives of science and NGOs have been pointing to this problem and insisting on elimination of this danger for the unique nature while the project implementation for several years. They offer to consider a possibility of the project implementation beyond water withdrawal of Baikal Lake, Regnum reports.
The Council thinks it is necessary to make an objective examination of the project implementation according to the economic interests and requirements of the environmental safety. The Council offers to consider project alternatives with less potential danger for Baikal.
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.
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