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Strike at Leningrad NPP postponed

Publish date: January 18, 2000

Strike at Leningrad nuclear power plant has been postponed until Saturday, January 22. The employees of the plant insist on 40 percent salary raise while the administration says that it can manage only 10 percent increase. A new meeting between the conflicting parties is scheduled to take place on Tuesday and, given no compromise is reached, the strike is imminent: The strikers will act by reducing the plant’s energy output down to 50 percent. Leningrad NPP operates on four RBMK-1000 reactors.

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The role of CCS in Germany’s climate toolbox: Bellona Deutschland’s statement in the Association Hearing

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.

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Bellona’s new working paper analyzes Russia’s big LNG ambitions the Arctic

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.