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[ 19.11.2008 ]
The St. Petersburg Council on Human Rights releases a stinging catalogue of ongoing abuses in its 2007 report
St. Petersburg – The St. Petersburg Council on Human Rights, an independent non-governmental organization, of which the Environmental Rights Center Bellona (ERC Bellona) is a member, has released a comprehensive and shocking review of human rights abuses committed throughout Russia in 2007.
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[ 18.11.2008 ]
Investigators finger questionable culprit in Russian Pacific Fleet nuclear sub disaster
The death of 20 people aboard the Nerpa nuclear submarine, who were killed when the vessel’s fire suppression system was tripped during sea trials, is being blamed on a crew member who - according to a source close to the investigation - entered erroneous data into a temperature sensor.
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[ 15.11.2008 ]
Inspections of a reactor at Sweden’s Forsmark nuclear plant reveal that a quarter of its control rods are cracked
Sweden’s Vatenfall said that an inspection carried out on all control rods at its Forsmark 3 reactor revealed that 25 percent of the 197 control rods it inspected appeared to be cracked. Control rods are an essential element in controlling nuclear reaction in reactors.
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[ 13.11.2008 ]
Russia to nuke oil and gas fields in the Arctic
Bellona yesterday presented a new report on the projected use of nuclear energy in exploration of Russian oil and gas industry in the Arctic, a topic that has been heating the environmental community since Russian gas giant Gazprom began to drop hints about using nuclear energy to power its vast development scheme for the Shtokman oil and gas condensate field under the Barents Sea, and the nuclear industry offered up nuclear submarines and icebreakers for transport and drilling purposes.
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[ 13.11.2008 ]
Bellona Europa issues new report on funding full-scale CO2 capture demonstration plants
BRUSSELS - The allocation of emission allowances to CCS demonstration projects is the EU funding mechanism that can be put in place most quickly says Eivind Hoff of Bellona Europa on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) technology.
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NEWS
[ 15.11.2008 ]
Russia to dismantled all decommissioned nuke subs by 2012, says Zvezdochka

Russia will dismantle all decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines by the beginning of 2012, according to Vladimir Nikitin, general director of the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, northern Russia as quoted by the RIA Novosti Russia newswire.

[ 11.11.2008 ]
Russian and Indian media report accident sub was to go to Indian navy

India's navy was supposed to lease the brand-new Russian nuclear submarine that suffered an accident over the weekend that killed 20 people, Russian and Indian news reports said Monday.
[ 11.11.2008 ]
Finland to put renewable, as well as nuclear, power to use to establish energy independence

ST. PETERSBURG - Finland’s new energy strategy envisions the portion of the country’s power coming from renewable sources to be 38 percent by 2020.

[ 11.11.2008 ]
Australian against exporting uranium, poll says, which could have consequences for Russia

A new poll suggests a majority of Australians are against the export of uranium to countries that have nuclear weapons, pointing to the unpopularity of a multi-million dollar uranium import deal between Austrialia and Russia.

[ 10.11.2008 ]
Climate and Oceans conference pushes for all IMO members to act together to cut maritime CO2 emissions

BRUSSELS - European Commission member Mark Major said at the Climate and Oceans conference on November 5th organised by Seas At Risk that, “steps are made forward, but all the actors need to act together.”

[ 03.11.2008 ]
Methodological order on nuclear oversight comes into effect

ST. PETERSBURG - Nikolai Kutin, head of the Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technical and Nuclear Oversight (Rostekhnadzor) on Friday issued a decree codifying a method for nuclear oversight and assuring compliance with federal regulations for nuclear energy use, as well as setting licensing conditions for building nuclear energy installations.

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BLOGS

Hush little baby, don’t you cry, Papa’s gonna buy you a …nuclear plant

[ Posted 28.04.2008 12:19 in Galina Raguzina's blog by Galina Raguzina ]
It just so happened the other night that I had a dream – and I remembered it. It’s an extraordinary event, basically, because for the most part, either I don’t dream at all or I don’t remember what I’ve just dreamt about. Shortly after that, another event occurred, and a truly extraordinary one this time: A bunch of complete strangers chose our city – the city I was born in and where I live, and where my mother and my children live – they chose our city for nothing else than building a new nuclear power plant.
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The Duma has no ecology committee - the only war we are fighting is against ourselves

[ Posted 14.01.2008 13:59 in Vladimir Slivyak's blog by Vladimir Slivyak ]
MOSCOW - In 2000 the Russian state organ for dealing with the environment was abolished, and late last month, the Ecological Committee of the Duma was scratched. They actually waited some time before closing the doors.

The climate summit Bali: A comparative cultural study

[ Posted 10.12.2007 10:58 in Eivind Hoff's blog ]
I know it may sound dubious, but the last time I attended an international summit was also in tropical East Asia, also in December (I did not get any tan then, though, and neither will I get it here in Bali). It was when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its last ministerial conference in Hong Kong. But those are about the only apparent commonalities between the two summits.

Among scooters and SUVs in Bali

[ Posted 07.12.2007 16:32 in Eivind Hoff's blog by Eivind Hoff ]
As my muscles tense by my taxi’s slalom-driving on busy Bali roads on the way to my first UNFCCC climate summit, I am struck by the odd mix of vehicles on the road. Actually, I would go as far as saying that this mix epitomises the international climate debate between rich and poor.
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BELLONA IN MEDIA
[ 05.11.2008 i St Petersburg Times ]
Ecologists Slam Nuclear Power Plant
[ 30.10.2008 i underdusken.no ]
NTNU involved in disputed industry - it will always be a dirty industry, says Bellona
[ 21.10.2008 i BarentsObserver ]
Murmansk Oblast focuses on renewable energy
[ 26.09.2008 i St Petersburg Times ]
Ecologists: 10,000 Tons Of Waste Headed for City
[ 30.04.2008 i Taipei Times ]
Mega-markets’ movable global feast levies high pollution cost

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