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Publish date: January 17, 2023
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On the 21st of December, the European Commission published the 1st list of Union candidate projects in the thematic area of cross-border Carbon Dioxide transport and storage networks applying for Project of Common Interest (PCI) or Project of Mutual Interest (PMI) status. Stakeholders have until the 16th of March to answer the open consultation. We encourage CCS stakeholders to answer the open consultation for which we at Bellona offer our overview of and take on the candidate projects and their potential to contribute towards the rapid upscale of CCS deployment and by extension, industrial decarbonisation.
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Deadline 16 March 2023: Consultation on the list of candidate Projects of Common Interest in all infrastructure categories (europa.eu)
The number of candidate projects each country is involved in.
Red targets indicate PMI projects; green targets indicate PCI projects.
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.
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.