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Publish date: July 14, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The workers at Amursky yard in Russia’s Far East went on strike on June 16, demanding salary pay-back and funding of the nuclear-powered subs construction. Since then nothing has changed, and the yard employees remain on strike.
The imediate future seems bleak for Amursky: The yard will have to dismiss some 4,000 of its employees during the coming three months, as its main customer – the Russian state – has not yet defined a work schedule for the yard for the year 1997 and further; in effect leaving the yard without orders. At the same time, the Defence Ministry’s debts to the yard for work already done has reached some 12.5 million USD.
On July 10 the deputies of Khabarovsk County Council appealed to Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin in connection to the critical situation at Amursky Naval shipbuilding yard, reports RIA News agency.
According to the Khabarovsk county deputies, there are two submarines under construction at Amursky yard. One of the subs is 80% complete, its reactor already loaded with nuclear fuel. Both submarines are apparently of Akula class, Project 971. Earlier reports suggested only one sub of this class to be under construction.
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.