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Publish date: June 26, 2008
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The judge ruled that the dispute was not within the purview of arbitration. Bellona will therefore pursue its suit against the district authorities in the Smolninskoye Federal Court.
Bellona filed suit against the administrative district when it refused to let the environmental group conduct an independent environmental impact study of the licensing materials that had been submitted in support of construction of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 2.
In its refusal, the Smolninskoye District wrote that the materials pertained to a “classified” installation and thus could not be publicly viewed.
Bellona turned directly to the administration of Sosnovy Bor – 50 kilometres west of St. Petersburg – which hosts the original Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and where the second one is slated to be built.
Bellona says that the state environmental impact study has already been completed, and because of the Smolninskoye District administration’s refusal to let Bellona conduct an impact study, a public impact study cannot be considered.
Nevertheless, Bellona has officially requested the related documents of Rosenergoatom, Russia’s nuclear utility, and will carry out a public review.
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.