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Publish date: June 17, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The Nerpa Yard salary debts to its 3075 employees has reached 5.8 million USD. The reason is lack of funding – Nerpa is working on state orders covering 70% of the yard’s industrial capacity.
The manager of Nerpa has gone to Moscow several times, and almost succeeded in March when promised a 2.7 million USD transferral. But in reality only some 200,000 USD were actually transferred to Nerpa’s accounts. The total debts of the state to Nerpa for salaries and works performed amount to some 24 million USD. At the labour union meeting on June 3, the manager could give no guarantees that the debts will be covered in the foreseeable future. This prompted the decision to go on strike on June 19.
Along with repair work on nuclear-powered submarines and conventional vessels of the Northern Fleet, Nerpa Yard is involved in nuclear-powered subs decommissioning operations. By the beginning of May a plasma torch for cutting subs’ hulls was installed at Nerpa, having been delivered from the US as part of the arms reduction agreements.
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.
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