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andrei Ozharovsky

[ 12.03.2010 ]
Lithuania indignant over neighbouring Belarus’ nuclear project safety claims
VILNIUS, Lithuania – At a public hearing that took place in Vilnius on March 2 to discuss the potential environmental impact of the Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant under planning in Belarus, participants voiced a strong opposition to the idea of having a new nuclear site just 50 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital. They followed with a request that the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment make an official notation of their disapproval of the experimental Russian project in the meeting’s record. Bellona’s regular contributor Andrei Ozharovsky reports from Vilnius.
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whitehouse.gov

[ 11.03.2010 ]
Obama convenes key Senators to hammer out wish list for stalled US climate bill
NEW YORK – US President Obama this week huddled for the first time with Senators who are pushing the currently mothballed climate bill, meeting with a dozen crucial senators in a final surge to pass the legislation that is bound to be fraught with a number of compromised that will be less palatable to the environmental and international community.
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Bellona Archive

[ 10.03.2010 ]
Battle to revise Russia radioactive waste bill continues as enviro groups are shut out of the dialogue
NEW YORK – Powerful environmental groups in Russia have stepped forward to say they have been shut out of a process to revise a new bill on radioactive waste management in Russia, saying their suggestions to improve the bill have been ignored, representatives of Greenpece Russia and Ecodefence told Bellona Web Tuesday.
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wikimedia commons

[ 08.03.2010 ]
EU pushes worldwide binding standards on nuke plant builds while France leads way with possible Chernobyl II
NEW YORK – The head of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso began a European Union-wide push on Monday to enforce European nuclear safety standards on the building of atomic energy plants to become the binding worldwide standard, while French president Nicolas Sarkozy chastised international banks’ reluctance to invest in nuclear power.
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Charles Digges/Bellona

[ 04.03.2010 ]
Bellona and Norwegian government put emphasis on helping environmental protection in Ghana
Bellona is urging environmental protection organisations in the African country of Ghana to adopt some its environmental policies against climate change and to face the environmental challenges standing before the developing, newly democratic nation.
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kremlin.ru

[ 02.03.2010 ]
Putin announces $1.77 billion for new reactor builds, and earmarks another $2billion for fast reactor production
NEW YORK – In conjunction with other large energy producers around the world, most notably the United States, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has just tabled a proposal to pump $1.77 billion into its nuclear industry to fund new plants, Russian news agencies have reported.
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[ 01.03.2010 ]
Ceremonial first stone laid for Baltic Nuclear Power Plant in Kaliningrad
NEW YORK – Despite resounding local and international disapproval, and deficits that have put Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom on a helter-skelter search for foreign investors, Russian officials laid the first symbolic stone in the building of the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant in Kaliningrad.
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NEWS
[ 11.03.2010 ]
EU approves grant for steel CO2 capture project in Germany

The European Commission has given the green light to a €30.2m state aid fund for a low-carbon project run by steelmaker ArcelorMittal in Germany. The project will capture CO2 from installations and put the remaining flue gases back into the furnaces to generate heat and reduce coke use.
[ 10.03.2010 ]
New project studies CCS public communications strategies

A new collaborative project entitled “Scrutinizing the Impact of CCS Communication on the General and Local Public (Impact of communication)” and led by the German Institute of Energy Research, Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEF-STE) has been launched to develop recommendations for communication strategies aimed at increasing public awareness of CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
[ 09.03.2010 ]
Lidové noviny, 26 February 2010, section: Diskuse (Polemics)

This article „Sundejme si pásku z očí” (in Czech only) by Bellona has been published in Lidove noviny, Czech Republic on February 26 as reaction to an article by Miroslav Zajicek entitled “TOP 5 biggest green non-senses: geological storage of carbon”. The reaction corrects some unfounded arguments mentioned in the original article and tries to put light into why the Czech Republic should be interested in CCS from a broader perspective.
[ 08.03.2010 ]
Free ETS permits may not be the answer, new report says

A report published on Wednesday by UK government-funded Carbon Trust has found that the free allocation of allowances by the EU to sectors prone to carbon leakage may be thoroughly counter-productive. The report warns against a one-size-fits-all approach and calls for sector-specific solutions. Specifically, it finds border-taxation to be a viable option for certain sectors including cement.
[ 08.03.2010 ]
RWE CEO holds low electricity prices responsible for potential energy insecurity

During a press conference on February 25th, where German power company RWE AG presented its fiscal results for 2009, RWE CEO Juergen Grossman discussed the notable decline in plans for coal-fired power supply expansion in Germany. He explained that a recent study commissioned by RWE AG concluded that prices in Germany “do not offer sufficient incentives for investment”.

[ 08.03.2010 ]
Conference on Nuclear Waste and safety held in Brussels

On March 3rd, Bellona organised together with Norwegian NGO Guardians of our Common Seas (Lofoten mot Sellafield) and British nuclear company Sellafield Ltd a conference on nuclear waste and safety in Europe. Representatives from Norway and Sweden expressed concerns over Sellafield’s management of high level radioactive waste. Sellafield Ltd. presented their current and future plans to enhance the “safety culture” at the nuclear site in West Cumbria, England.

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Shell carries expansion of tar sand project on the shoulders of CCS

[ Posted 12.02.2010 16:33 in CCS Blog by Gøril Tjetland ]
The second quarter of 2009 Shell had seven test-phase CCS projects underway and was looking to fund future projects through lucrative carbon credits (Reuters May 2009).

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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