June 9, 2020 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Oil As Arctic oil spill spreads, Bellona offers assistance An oil spill near Norilsk above the Russian Arctic Circle has crept into a glacial lake after seeping through barriers meant to staunch its […]
June 8, 2020 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian prosecutor orders checks on permafrost-bound industry in wake of Arctic oil spill Russian prosecutors have ordered checks on infrastructure built on permafrost after a fuel tank collapsed in the Arctic, leading to a […]
June 4, 2020 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Oil Putin declares emergency over Arctic oil spill – is climate change to blame? A major oil spill in northern Siberia has prompted Vladimir Putin to declare a state of emergency in an environmentally fragile Arctic […]
May 28, 2020 Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian economist calls Moscow’s oil dependency a ‘dead horse’ Russia must move away from oil and reduce its dependence on hydrocarbon prices as it shakes off the coronavirus, said Anatoly Chubais, a […]
April 24, 2020 Fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico oil spill Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon, new spills seem imminent Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, sending some 750 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly […]
