
The fragile environmental coalitions cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
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Publish date: May 14, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The machinery, manufactured in the United States by Huges Aircraft Systems International, was delivered to Nerpa a few years ago, but has been idling ever since. The original plans considered the machinery part of a complex including a land-based dock with special submarines dismantling equipment. Lack of funding postponed commissioning of the complex, which should have been ready by 1996. On June 28 1996 the construction works were suspended.
The final works on the plasma torch was paid by the US, as a part of the Start-II weapons reduction agreement. According to management at Nerpa, 13.5 million USD allocated in the state budget for construction of the decommissioning complex were frozen. By the middle of May the yard had received only 200,000 USD. The lack of a decommissioning complex means that only a quarter of the American machinery’s operational capacity can be exploited.
Similar machinery, also delivered by US companies, was commissioned by the end of November 1996 at Severodvinsk yard and Zvezdochka. The Americans covered all the expenses including training of personnel to operate the equipment.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
The following speech was given by Bellona nuclear expert Dmitry Gorchakov at the Arctic Frontiers conference, which was in session this week in Troms...
Social media are ablaze after Bellona founder Frederic Hauge met Motvind’s Eivind Salen on Norwegian national broadcaster NRK’s Debatten program last night.
"Maritime transport along the Northern Sea Route remains a bad idea. Even with a warmer climate, cold, wind and darkness will define the Arctic winter," said Bellona's Senior Adviser Sigurd Enge to a packed hall at the Arctic Frontiers conference.