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Leningrad NPP to export its nuclear energy to EU

Publish date: August 24, 2004

A new high-voltage electric cable on the bottom of the Finnish Gulf should connect Mussalo in Finland and Kernovo settlement in Leningrad region, Russia, in order to export nuclear energy from the Leningrad NPP to Finland.

The specialists believe it is a complicated task to lay a 150 km cable in the Baltic where plenty of arms is buried during the war time. The Navy Navigation-Hydrographic Recearch Institute is working on the safe route for the cable. The project’s price tag is $200m. The cable will be listed in the Register of the Ministry of Emergencies as “potentially dangerous installation”, Rosbalt reported.

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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.