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Publish date: December 5, 2006
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He said that the Rosatom decided to pay $38,000 for each house in contaminated Muslyumovo village, which is situated on the banks of the heavily contaminated Techa river. Several other settlements were evacuated following huge radioactive discharges from the reprocessing plant in the early fifties. Kiriyenko believes this money is enough to buy a good flat in Chelyabinsk city nearby or build a house. He added that all will be done after an agreement with the Muslyumovo villagers and hopefully the village will be demolished by bulldozers and then grass and trees would be planted.
The decision to resettle Muslyumovo was taken in May this year. In the frames of this project the Rosatom already transferred $23m. Chelyabinsk region budget should allocate $17m, and the federal budget would transfer $9.5m. The major part of the sum will be spent for the construction of new village Novomuslyumovo, where 300 families will be resettled, ITAR-TASS reported.
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.