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[ 09.02.2010 ]
Government report indicates Norway wants to ship radioactive waste to Russiain 'unacceptable' move
Radioactive waste from Norway’s Halden and Kjeller research reactors could be sent to Russia, according to a report ordered by the Norwegian government’s Ministry of Trade and Industry in what Bellona is calling an “unacceptable” move.
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[ 08.02.2010 ]
Obama budget proposes federal funding infusion into US nuclear power
NEW YORK – The US nuclear industry got a big boost and big oil took a hit when US president Barack Obama submitted his federal budget proposal to Congress last week, making good on a promise to the nuclear industry in his State of the Union speech last month to include it in America’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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[ 04.02.2010 ]
Kola Nuclear Power Plant first hides, then downplays incident
An energy transformer exploded into bits and pieces at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant located on the Kola Peninsula, in Northwest Russia. The incident led to a 50% reduction of power output from two reactor units leaving onsite spent nuclear fuel storage without energy supply. The authorities at the plant neglected to report about the incident.
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[ 03.02.2010 ]
Landmark EU decision to finance CCS
Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Member States finally endorsed a European Commission Decision setting out the procedures and criteria for selecting the large-scale projects for CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
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[ 02.02.2010 ]
Environmentalists urge Russian parliament to revise controversial bill on radioactive waste management
MURMANSK — Much to environmentalists’ dismay, the lower house of the Russian parliament voted in the last week of January to pass in the first hearing a controversial new bill on radioactive waste management — a document that ecologists fear will give the nuclear industry an unchecked licence to carry on with its dangerous waste disposal practices.
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[ 29.01.2010 ]
World nations take first steps toward realising the Copenhagen Accord on first deadline
NEW YORK – In compliance with the Copenhagen Accord, President Obama has officially pledged the United States will reduce its emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next 10 years, but worried environmentalists point out that the pledge will be undeliverable if the United States Congress does not pass the climate legislation languishing before it.
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[ 29.01.2010 ]
Radioactive dump still a toxic issue for Russia’s Angarsk
A public hearing in the Siberian city of Angarsk, the reluctant hometown of a uranium enrichment enterprise, was another testament to the nuclear industry’s endless foot-dragging over unsafe practices of storing radioactive waste. City authorities rejected the plant’s proposal to leave its uranium tails storage facility on Angarsk’s territory, while legally taking it out of city limits. Angarsk is still waiting for its toxic inhabitant to provide more efficient solutions to handle the waste. Below is a comment by Andrei Ozharovsky.
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[ 05.02.2010 ]
UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme launches website

The Carbon Capture Legal Programme (CCLP) was set up in June 2007 to provide an updated, open access to legal resources and policy developments relevant to the analysis of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) across various jurisdictions and for the benefit of all CCS stakeholders.
[ 05.02.2010 ]
Obama announces creation of CCS Task Force

US President Barack Obama has announced that a new Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force is in the process of being created as part of an overall effort to develop cleaner coal-based technologies.
[ 05.02.2010 ]
GDF Suez and EnBW abandon plans for Stade coal plant

Following efforts by civil society groups including green German NGO Klima Allianz, GDF Suez and EnBW have finally abandoned a plan to build an 800 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant at Stade, North Germany. The plant was going to be built on the site of Dow Deutschland by 2012. The utility companies involved announced last year that the plant would be combined with a gas driven turbine to produce over 1000 MW.
[ 05.02.2010 ]
Carbon market uncertainty may contribute to unaffordable energy bills in UK

An inquiry conducted by UK electricity and gas regulator Ofgem anticipates unaffordable future spikes in energy prices. This has, in turn, fuelled concerns over energy security in the medium term. Ofgem highlights five different issues which must be addressed. One of these key points is the uncertainty caused by future carbon prices, which is seen to be delaying and deterring much-needed, wide-scale investment in low-carbon technologies.
[ 05.02.2010 ]
Alliance formed to move CCS for cement forward in Spain

MADRID – The Cement Manufacturers Association of Spain (Oficemen) and the City of Energy Foundation (CIUDEN) have signed a cooperation agreement to demonstrate the feasibility of implementing CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technologies within the cement industry.
[ 29.01.2010 ]
Micronesia wins first round

BRUSSELS – Following Micronesia’s challenge of Czech utility conglomerate CEZ’s project to expand the Prunerov coal-fired plant, the Czech authorities have granted the request of undergoing a Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) by an independent body in order to assess the impact of the plant extension on the environment.

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Washington View: Massachusetts defeat shakes Democrats

[ Posted 20.01.2010 00:00 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple ]
WASHINGTON – The Republican win of Scott Brown in Massachusetts – a traditional Democratic bulwark – in a special election held to fill the Senatorial seat of the late Ted Kennedy has shaken up US Congress, which, until today, held the upper hand over the Republicans. Brown’s win, meanwhile, puts a question mark over the passage of energy and climate legislation, including a cap-and-trade scheme.
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Washington View: US EPA announces greenhouse gas pollutants while US industry announced intent to sue

[ Posted 09.12.2009 00:00 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple ]
LONDON – Since Monday, two issue have been gaining in importance for the US delegation to the Copenhagen climate talks, which will stand President Barack Obama in better stead with his international colleagues, but could put him at protracte loggerheads with industry at home.
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Washington View: Obama dazzles world with plans to attend Copenhagen, while more Americans greet climate change with a yawn

[ Posted 26.11.2009 00:00 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple ]
WASHINGTON – Thanksgiving week has descended on Washington, so Congress is adjourned. The Administration of President Barack Obama, however, is in the heat of preparations for COP 15, which White House officials have confirmed Obama wil be addressing on December 9th while he is in the neighbourhood to pick up his Nobel Prize in Oslo on December 10th.
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Washington View: Mr Obama may go to Copenhagen ‘if’ his presence will tilt the scales

[ Posted 11.11.2009 00:00 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple ]
WASHIGTON – As usual, politics – mainly the healthcare debate – dominates discussion her in the US capital. Yet, Copenhagen, energy, and climate change are also very much in the spotlight, and the daily reports from Capitol Hill on the climate bill, now out of Senate Committee and on to other committees, and other US green efforts are so numerous and varied that trying to cover them all is like trying to drink from a fire hose.
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