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Russian Natural Resources officials held on bribery charges
MURMANSK – A highly placed official in the national division of Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, and two from the agency’s regional divisions have been arrested on...
View ArticleFewer ships scrapped on Asia’s beaches
Bellona has worked for years to stop Norwegian ship owners from conducting so-called “beaching”, that is sending ships to irresponsible scrapping on beaches in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. New...
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First campaign in Northwest Russian to temporarily halt pollution comes to...
MURMANSK – As last year drew to a close, the Murmansk Region’s Ministry of Ecology Natural Resources promised to support an initiative by environmentalists calling on regional polluters to slash...
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Russian ministry demands environmental upgrades from world’s biggest nickel...
MURMANSK – Rinat Gizatulin, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, has demanded that Norilsk Nickel – the world’s biggest nickel producer and one of its most polluting...
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Modernizing Russian industry to ecological standards long overdue says new...
MURMANSK – Among the key assertions of a new Bellona report, presented Tuesday in Murmansk, is that Russian industry in the far Northwestern Barents area must urgently be modernized. The report,...
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Press Release: Bellona Foundation and Damen to cooperate on low-emission designs
The Bellona Foundation has launched a three year partnership with the leading Dutch company Damen Shipyards Group with the goal of exploring and developing concept vessels for the future. The agreement...
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A tale of how the West is polluting Murmansk: a day in the life of a ‘foreign...
MURMANSK – How do state environmentalists explain the complex environmental conditions of the Murmansk region while ignoring a spike in harmful emissions from Russian industry? Right. Blame the West....
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Waters of the Barents Sea and Kola Bay remain officially ‘dirty’ thanks to...
MURMANSK – The prime fishing waters of the Barents Sea and Kola Bay are being negatively impacted by industry, shipping traffic and other man-made influence and the Bay has been declared “dirty” by...
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COMMENT: Kola mining company heavily pollutes Murmansk region for...
MURMANSK – The Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (KMMC) – a daughter enterprise of the giant Norilsk Nickel – regularly exceeds allowable pollution limits by as many as 10 times, and continues to...
View ArticleNorwegian Shipowners to stop beaching
– The turnaround by the Norwegian Shipowners shows us that they now agree with the principle advocated by NGOs for years. Hazardous “beaching” should not take place in 2015. It is a dinosaur way of...
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