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Publish date: August 19, 2010
Written by: Annicken Vargel
Translated by: Charles Digges
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The theme for the 19th annual meeting of the ONS is ” Energy for more people.” The challenge is as difficult as it is obvious: How to meet world energy demands while we reducing and phasing out fossil fuels and polluting oil?
On Monday, Bellona will host a seminar at the Customs Hall in Stavanger dealing with risks and challenges of oil production in Norway and the rest of the world in light of the BP Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico this spring – the largest accidental oil spill in history.
Among the speakers are Peter Lehner, general manager of the Natural Resources Defense Council , who will talk about the experience of the Deepwater Horizon and US climate and energy policy.
ExproSoft Senior Adviser Per Holand will catalogue and explain offshore oil blowouts worldwide from 1980 to 2007, and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway’s Marine Research Institute and Bellona will together describe the consequences of oil spills in the vulnerable area from Røst to Nordkapp.
Bellona President Frederic Hauge , will also talk about how to go from black oil to a green the desert via the Sahara Forest Project.
Bellona will also be present with its own stand in the Renewable Energy Park in the exhibition area of the conference, and Thursday Bellona’s Paal Frisvold and Tone Knudsen will hold presentations at the so-called Centre Court. The titles of their talks will be, respectively, “From demonstration to commercialization” and “Carbon Negative – the Bridge Over to the New Energy Future.”
For more information on times and location , see Bellona’s Calendar and programme (downloadable to right).
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.