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Svalbard could turn from dirty coal to zero emission power supply -
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Norway’s only coal power plant supplies Longyearbyen with electricity and ... artificial respiration to the world’s northernmost coal power plant,” says Runa Haugh Khoury, Senior Advisor ... a combination of different energy sources can push the coal power plant over in history. If politicians act soon. ...
2016/08/23 - 20:13
Coal miners look to Taymyr -
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... the company Vostokugol, which prepares for exploration of coal reserves located south of Dikson, newspaper Murmansky ... the summer season, the newspaper informs. The Taymyr coal basis, the Taybass, is believed to hold significant ... head of the Dolgan-Nenets municipality, there is a coking coal deposit with estimated 72 million tons of resources ...
2016/05/03 - 12:06
Governor outlines master plan for Arctic outpost Dikson -
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... goods, must be built in order to serve the nearby Taybass coal basin. In addition, service centers for the shipping ... Taybass is believed to hold some of the biggest remaining coal reserves in the country. It is located near the western shore of the Taymyr Peninsula. Coal production in the area is planned boosted to 20 million ...
2016/06/27 - 15:03
Government wants to give more money to Store Norske -
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... in pausing and maintenance position. The state-owned coal company has been in a crisis since the latter half of 2014 due to a sharp drop in coal prices. For Norway, it is of geopolitical importance to ... while the dormitory town of Svea houses most of the coal miners. “It is important to maintain activity and ...
2016/02/08 - 14:11
Russian tourism on Svalbard up 500% -
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... revenues from tourism are now higher than the ones from coal mining. That has been made possible by upgrades of local ... the Russian state-owned company traditionally engaged in coal mining. About 100.000 tons of coal is yearly extracted from local mine in Barentsburg. The ...
2016/11/01 - 11:37
On Svalbard, a future without coal -
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... light of price developments and market perspectives for coal». «It will be facilitated for a three-year production ... million) support package for SNSK. With the cash, the coal miner was to prepare for pausing of its operations in ... was to continue only in the mine No. 7 in Longyearbyen. Coal mining has been a key industry at Svalbard ever since ...
2016/05/11 - 16:14
No need for Lavna oil terminal in Murmansk -
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... of a new railway line, as well as a new oil terminal, a coal terminal and other industrial objects. “At the current ... they don’t have any need for an oil terminal in Lavna. Coal terminal also in the blue Another project within the Murmansk Transport Hub, a coal terminal planned to be built in the Lavna area in the ...
2016/03/18 - 18:34
EU ramps up energy efficiency target, but still room for Norwegian gas -
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... causing climate changes. Phase out subsidies for coal-fired power plants and boosting a greater share of ... Whilst electricity generation is decarbonising, retiring coal plants give room for gas-fired generators to stay on. “Natural gas pollutes half as much as coal and therefore is a bridge between more polluting fossil ...
2016/11/30 - 11:14
4 dead, 26 missing in mining accident in Komi Republic -
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... later there was a second explosion,” Head of Vorkutaugol Coal Company’s Press Service Tatyana Bushkova said. ... dead after explosions, rock collapse and fire hit a coal mine in Vorkuta in the Russian Arctic on Thursday. 4 ...
2016/02/26 - 10:36
Patriarch on Arctic visit -
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... Kirill traveled to Vorkuta, the heavily industrialized coal producing town north in the region, built up in the ... in 1932 to exploit the resources of the Pechora Coal Basin and the city of Vorkuta was established to support ...
2016/06/28 - 17:15
Norway opens up for fish landing on Svalbard -
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... for employment in the local community of Longyearbyen. The coal mining company Store Norske in September last year halted most of its production because of low coal prices, and the local authorities have been searching ...
2016/01/13 - 14:50
Rogozin: Significant potential and urgent need for renewable energy in the Arctic -
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... and other petroleum products and 20-25 million tons of coal is shipped to areas in the Far North, Siberia and Far ... used in the Russian parts of the Arctic are fuel oil, coal and wood, which in turn have a negative effect on the ...
2016/06/10 - 15:03
New mega-port in Arkhangelsk with Chinese investments -
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... since the White Sea is frozen during winter. Loads of coal are sent by rail all the way from the Kuzbass region in ...
2016/10/21 - 15:19
Mining accident death toll rises to 36 -
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... the explosion “a terrible tragedy for Russia and for our coal industry”. The accident was considered to be the ... producer Severstal. Vorkutaugol produces 6 percent of all coal in Russia, according to Wikipedia . Vorkuta was once ...
2016/02/29 - 13:58
In Beijing, investors talk Russian Arctic railway -
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... will amount to 35 million tons and goods will vary from coal, mineral fertilizers, oil, timber, ores, construction ...
2016/05/23 - 01:15
North Korea signs Svalbard Treaty -
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... writes that Svalbard has rich underground deposits of coal and other resources, that the surrounding waters of the ...
2016/02/02 - 12:15
Industrial production down -
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... 0,3% in 2015 compared to 1,4% in 2014 and 1,1% in 2013. Coal production increased 4,5%. Russia in August 2014 ...
2016/01/25 - 14:29
Russians step up presence on Svalbard -
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... of tourism development and the local Russian Arktikugol coal company, a press release informs. The Russian government ...
2016/05/02 - 15:34
An Arctic strategy for northern Sweden -
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... SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall to produce steel without use of coal. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px ...
2016/11/07 - 16:55