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Publish date: October 27, 2003
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This year, the Norwegian government allocated 28 million Norwegian crowns ($4 million) for the works at Andreeva bay and the Nerpa shipyard, engaged in nuclear submarines dismantling. The shipyard received $5 million to dismantle a multipurpose nuclear submarine of Victor-II class. 15 million crowns were spent on road construction to the Andreeva bay facility and more than 5 million crowns were used for physical protection of the facility. The rest of the money was spent on the sluice reconstruction. The Russian Ministry of atomic energy scheduled two projects for the next year at Andreeva bay: change house for the employees and local geotechnical exploration. Norway promised to examine the projects and give an answer regarding their financing.
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.