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Norwegian company to build wind power plant on Solovetsky Islands

Publish date: June 8, 2005

The Norwegian energy company Troms Kraft plans to build a wind power plant on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, BarentsObserver reported. The company is developing an ecologically clean energy project for the Solovetsky Islands under the cooperation agreement between Russia's Arkhangelsk region and Norway's province of Tromsø signed in 2002.

-The estimated capacities of the power units should be enough to meet the electricity needs of the population and the burgeoning tourist industry on the Solovetsky Islands, an official at the Arkhangelsk region’s committee on international ties and tourism told Itar-Tass on Monday.

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The role of CCS in Germany’s climate toolbox: Bellona Deutschland’s statement in the Association Hearing

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.

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Bellona’s new working paper analyzes Russia’s big LNG ambitions the Arctic

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.