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Publish date: September 19, 1997
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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The employees in Snezhinsk have not been paid for more than three months, and as a result plant officials say social tension is near the point of explosion. They claim to have 111 billion rubels (approx. 19 million USD) oustanding with the federal government for this year, most of it for wages, according to Itar-Tass. The center’s managers and trade union leaders warned of an impending strike. There is 16,000 employees at the All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF).
Last fall, one of the VNIITF’s directors shot himself to death, reportedly after leaving a note citing governmental indifference to the nuclear complex’ financial woes.
On september 16th, employees and scientists of the other Russian Federal Nuclear Center, in Sarov (Arzamas-16), startet protest actions because of the state’s salary-debt to the center.
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.