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Russia finds market for its vast reserves of Arctic coal -
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... from the country’s biggest industrial companies. It was coal that was on top of Mr Pradhan’s agenda as he sat down ... project decision on the development of metallurgic coal, that is to be exported from Russia,» the minster said ... Pradhan, India needs about 70 million tons of high-quality coal for its aluminum and steel industry. Pradhan and the ...
2019/11/01 - 14:12
Europe’s clean energy shift troubles construction of giant coal port in Murmansk -
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Most of Russia’s coal export shipped out from the ice-free port of Murmansk is ... by 60% . Many countries within the union are phasing out coal faster than predicted, like Finland, which suggests coal-burning for power could be banned already by 2025. Coal ...
2020/10/26 - 15:13
Gloom in horizon as Russia announces it will boost digging of coal -
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... like to congratulate everyone whose life is connected with coal mining, with this key industry in our country’s ... as he this week greeted the governors of the main coal extracting regions of Russia. The meeting took place in ... Day, the annual celebration devoted to workers in the coal mining industry. Around the table were sitting ...
2019/08/23 - 16:19
Big blow to Arctic environment as Russian coal company advances into protected tundra -
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... great peninsula Taymyr lie large resources of high-quality coal. And a Russian extracting company intends to bring to ... tons of it. It is called anthracite, a hard kind of coal that contains extraordinary levels of energy. Vostok Coal, the company controlled by businessmen Dmitry Bosov and ...
2019/08/06 - 23:55
Cultural heritage in Svalbard – cleaning up after a century of coal mining -
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... Evenset // Akvaplan-niva Top photo: Akvaplan-Niva Coal mining in Svalbard can be traced back to the 17th century, when coal deposits were found by whalers and early explorers. ... have had mining operations in Svalbard, but owing to coal depletion or economic conditions most of the mines were ...
2024/06/20 - 08:51
Black day for coal company as it abandons grand Arctic dig -
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... 17.0px Georgia; font-kerning: none; color: #95000e} Vostok Coal, the company owned by controversial businessmen Dmitry ... Aleksandr Isayev, had great plans for Taybass, the rich coal resources of the remote Arctic Taymyr Peninsula. By year ... Dikson plays a key role in the development of the Taymyr coal resources. Photo: Thomas Nilsen Vast resources Under the ...
2020/02/04 - 13:53
Investor breathes new life in major Arctic coal project -
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... Company and intends to forge ahead with big plans for coal production on the tundra. The businessman, one of ... to extract several hundred million tons of high-quality coal from his many license areas in Taymyr. Taybass, the Taymyr coal basin, is located along the coast of the Kara Sea. Map ...
2020/06/25 - 14:43
Environment minister proposes coal-free Finland by 2025 -
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... Minister Kimmo Tiilikainen wants Finland to rid itself of coal-burning power plants in the next seven years. The ... The main reason for the increase was an unexpected rise in coal burning for electricity and heating. But does the ... really think that Finland could eliminate its reliance on coal-burning power plants in less than a decade? “The ...
2018/01/10 - 11:25
As Moscow turns down coal deal at COP26, Russian miners get ready for a big Arctic dig -
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Coal is high on the agenda in the ongoing COP26 in Glasgow. But neither Russia, nor the other major coal producing countries like China, Australia and the USA, ... commitments. Among them are five of the world’s top 20 coal power-using countries, the UN Climate Change informs . ...
2021/11/05 - 17:19
Europe banning Russian coal will hit hard on Murmansk and Barentsburg -
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... pillars in the new sanctions imposes an import ban on coal from Russia, worth €4 billion annually. “This will ... von der Leyen said. Russia’s main export harbor for coal to Europe is Murmansk on the coast of the Barents Sea. Although now coal mining takes place in the Murmansk region, coal from the ...
2022/04/06 - 12:06
World’s northernmost coal power plant shuts down -
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... 19 marks the last day of operations for Norway’s only coal power plant. Providing heat and electricity to ... from today’s 70,00o tons annually with the transfer from coal to diesel. The cut equals emissions from about 20,000 ... Environmentalists have long criticized Norway for mining coal and running a coal power plant at Svalbard as the Arctic ...
2023/10/19 - 10:30
Tycoon in Arctic coal, oil and gas is found dead in Moscow mansion -
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... Aleksandr Isayev from leading posts in companies Vostok Coal and the Sibanthracite Group. Vostok Coal started digging in the far northern Taymyr Peninsula in 2016. Photo: screenshot from company video Arctic coal Dmitry Bosov had major plans for business developments ...
2020/05/07 - 15:56
Russian Arctic coal is looking for way out of sanctions -
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... Roman Trotsenko has long had big plans for the vast coal resources of Taymyr, and over the years acquired a ... to extract at least five million tons of high-quality coal per year at the Syradasaiskoye, the first mine in the ... Severnaya Zvezda informs that it now considers to sell the coal on the domestic Russian market, instead of shipping it ...
2022/10/18 - 01:58
In the shadow of the coal miner -
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... they decided to build a railway, no one knew where the coal seams were located in this area, and it was not safe to ... important. But it was not that mine at all. In search of coal At the downtown stop there is a commemorative plaque. It ... of the local village of Petrun. In 1910, he discovered the coal yield on the Great Inta River; in 1912, geologist ...
2018/09/27 - 16:42
In the shadow of the coal miner -
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... they decided to build a railway, no one knew where the coal seams were located in this area, and it was not safe to ... But it was not that mine at all. In search of coal At the downtown stop there is a commemorative plaque. It ... of the local village of Petrun. In 1910, he discovered the coal yield on the Great Inta River; in 1912, geologist ...
2018/09/27 - 16:43
Construction resumes at Murmansk transport hub -
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... outside Murmansk was said to be in jeopardy as Russia’s coal export to Europe declined sharply from 2019 to 2020. ... to provide stable renewables to the electricity grid, so coal-fired power plants again get a boost. And so do global coal prices. At least for the winter to come. Last week, ...
2021/09/20 - 13:34
Murmansk coal terminal developers have show-off for Putin -
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... has a strategic importance for the growing export of coal and relocation of goods flows away from the Baltic,» ... Company, which owns the Lavna Sea Trade Port, the major coal terminal project on the western side of the Kola ... includes the annual handling of up to 18 million tons of coal. It is to help boost regional coal exports and release ...
2018/03/21 - 15:21
Barentsburg aims to move from dirty coal to become gateway for Russia's Arctic tourism -
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... polluting the horizon with the same blackish colour as the coal piles covering the permafrost. In times of climate ... couldn’t be more contradictory; a coalmine with a smoky coal power plant in front of a melting glacier. In recent ... and exploring mineral resources. For Russia, that means coal mining. The Svalbard Treaty says no military bases ...
2018/09/03 - 07:17
Coal diggers are building a settlement on the Taymyr tundra -
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... its project company Severnaya Zvezda. The Syradasayskoye coal field will produce about 5 million tons per year, all of ... 2026, the project is to produce about 7 million tons of coal per year, the project developers say. Workers are now ... Not surprisingly, the power station will be fuelled by coal. In the initial phase it will have a 10 MW capacity. ...
2021/10/15 - 14:54
Pressure mounts on Murmansk Governor Andrey Chibis as prospects for grand coal project turn dark -
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The significant decline in global demands on coal is bad news for the Government of Murmansk, that over ... the last decade has worked relentless to build a grand coal terminal on the western shore of the Kola Bay. The future of the Lavna coal terminal and the connecting Murmansk Transport Hub is ...
2020/11/17 - 16:23