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Publish date: March 18, 2003
Written by: Isak Oksvold
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Agenda for the workshop will be the transition phase towards the hydrogen society, with focus on the necessity of establishing technology and infrastructure for CO2-storage. Bellonas Frederic Hauge and senior expert Egil Holte will present Bellonas views on these issues. A summary of the presentation is found on the link below. Bellona has also invited Michael Austell from the CENS project to present their experiences on CO2-storage.
Wide range of participants
Parliament members from green, liberal and conservative wings of the parliament are expected to attend the workshop. The highly respected European Parliament Rapporteur on Climate Change, Jorge Moreira Da Silva will also attend. Bellona has also shedueled a separate meeting with Da Silva during the day. Representatives from the Commission, that is, representatives from the cabinets of Walström and Bousquin is expected at the workshop.
Environmental NGOs are invited, such as representatives from Greenpeace, WWF, CAN and EEB. The car industry represented by BMW and Daimler Chrystler are expected at the Bellona presentation.
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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