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Publish date: October 8, 2010
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President of Bellona Foundation Frederic Hauge sent a letter to the head of Murmansk region parliament Evgeny Nikora suggesting a meeting in Murmansk.
Earlier in September this year Evgeny Nikora and Frederic Hauge met at the ”round table” discussions in Brussels during the 9th Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region. The issues raised at the Conference were also about nuclear and radiation safety in Murmansk region.
Frederic Hauge accepted an invitation from the Murmansk region parliament speaker Evgeny Nikora to visit Murmansk in order to discuss the issues of the oil and gas activities, nuclear and radiation safety, renewable energy sources development, energy saving and energy efficiency. Frederic Hauge expressed confidence to unite the efforts to use potential to study and preserve the Arctic environment.
The president of Bellona Foundation Frederic Hauge plans to visit Murmansk in November.
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.