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Publish date: October 21, 2004
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Canada will sponsor the dismantlement of this multipurpose nuclear submarine, the shipyards press secretary Natalya Scherbinina told ITAR-TASS. The navy tugged the submarine to the shipyard. The shipyard is soon expecting the second Canadian submarine. Total three submarines will be scrapped with the help of Canada in the frames of the Global Partnership program signed by G8 countries in 2002. Canada allocates total $18m for dismantling of all three submarines.
Besides, the French delegation visited Zvezdochka in the end of September. The representatives of the group Technicatom examined the necessity for reconstruction of the facility for low-level radioactive waste burning. The document on further co-operation was signed as a result of the visit. The French party is ready to sign a contract with Zvezdochka on reconstruction of this facility immediately after the agreement on technical assistance between Russia and France is signed.
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.