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This dark shadow over the Russian Arctic comes from coal -
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... company intends to extract hundreds of millions of tons of coal, build new roads and infrastructure, and turn the small ... “Welcome to Dikson”. Photo: Thomas Nilsen High-quality coal It is anthracite, a hard kind of coal with high carbon content, which is located in abundant ...
2017/11/29 - 13:11
End comes to 100 years of Norwegian coal mining at Svalbard -
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... in operation in order to provide supplies to the local coal-fuelled power plant. Writer and Svalbard analyst Per ... «This is the end of a more than 100 years long era of coal mining in Svalbard», says writer and Svalbard analyst ... Norway has pumped millions of kroner into the Svalbard coal industry. And the economic troubles of state mining ...
2017/10/12 - 17:02
On remote Arctic coast, a grand coal project in the making -
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... of about 600 million tons of high-quality antracite coal reserves. This summer, VostokUgol and its subsidiary ... it capable of shipping out up to ten million tons of coal per year, the company informs . Out-shipments are to be ... company exported a first test shipment of 20,000 tons of coal from site. At the same time, a dormitory village built ...
2017/02/24 - 01:39
Company boosts control over Murmansk coal exports -
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... min-height: 13.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The coal company, Russia’s biggest, buys a 25,5 percent stake ... 75,468 percent, PortNews reports. About 14 million tons of coal was exported from Murmansk in 2016, all of it by SUEK to ... port in 2012. While SUEK wanted the port for it exports of coal, the EuroChem sought easy exports of apatite and iron ...
2017/01/12 - 11:14
Melnichenko puts a value on Murmansk port -
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... stake in the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port to SUEK, the coal company. That deal is worth 8.74 billion rubles ($143 ... of the Murmansk Sea Port. That same year, SUEK, the coal company, acquired another major stake. While Eurochem ... and ore from Kovdor, SUEK exports major volumes of coal from site. In 2016, the coal company exported 14 million ...
2017/02/09 - 20:59
Murmansk counts on Chinese investors -
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... in Lavna, the site for the region’s much-desired new coal terminal. The company is ready to provide $300 million ... of the Kola Bay. The new infrastructure will connect the coal terminal with the Russian national rail grid. The Lavna coal project has for years been a top priority project for ...
2017/03/14 - 14:00
Governor draws another railway line on Russia’s Arctic map -
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... the construction of a railway line between Vorkuta, the coal-producing city north in the Komi Republic, and Ust-Kara ... transportation link for the region’s rich resources of coal, oil and gas and other minerals and metals. The buyers ... programs. Vorkuta is well known as Russia’s northern coal extraction center and reserves remain abundant. ...
2017/09/25 - 16:01
Russian legislators ban foreign shipments of oil, natural gas and coal along Northern Sea Route -
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... and liquified natural gas, the legislation also includes coal. The amended law comes into force on 1 February 2018. ... of oil, natural gas (including LNG), gas condensate and coal, which is extracted on Russian territory, including on ... legislators ban foreign shipments of oil, natural gas and coal along Northern Sea Route ...
2017/12/26 - 23:36
Government might run out of cash for new Murmansk infrastructure -
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... the main attention of the premier and his ministers. Coal by rail to Murmansk. Photo: Atle Staalesen «The ... Sokolov, an agreement in the project might be signed with coal trading company Mercuria in the upcoming St.Petersburg ... line will end in the settlement of Lavna where a new coal terminal is planned built. Nearby, Novatek, the gas ...
2017/05/09 - 01:21
Tourism outdoes coal in Svalbard settlement -
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... number of local assets previously controlled by the coal miners are being transferred to the tourism developers. ... from Russia. Revenues from tourism now exceed the one from coal mining, he says in an interview published by online ... taken over by quickly expanding tourism. Tourism outdoes coal in Svalbard settlement ...
2017/04/18 - 16:41
Transport hub on Medvedev’s agenda in Murmansk -
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... waters. Murmansk is an important hub for reloading of coal, oil, fish, metals and other cargo from the European ... main gateway for the Northern Sea Route to Asia. Murmansk coal harbour is next to the city centre. Photo: Thomas Nilsen ...
2017/04/21 - 10:27
The masts on Andrey’s new yacht is taller than hotel Arktika -
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... Andrey Melnichenko’s assets also includes Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), the leading coal producer in Russia and owner of 75% of the shares in ... Port, as reported by the Barents Observer in January. Coal harbor in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen Figures from ...
2017/02/07 - 12:08
South Korea and Russia plan Murmansk hub -
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... in summer and via the Suez in winter season. Murmansk coal harbour is next to the city centre. Photo: Thomas Nilsen ... the Arctic. Murmansk is an important hub for reloading of coal, oil, fish, metals and other cargo from the European ...
2017/11/07 - 15:39
Emergency in Arctic waters as oil tanker gets stuck in ice, drifts ashore -
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... which is on its way from Dikson with up to 21,000 tons of coal from the Taybass coal basin . Icebreaker “Yamal”. Photo: rosatom.ru ...
2017/12/04 - 14:50
This Arctic voyage is unique -
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... the local port in early November and loaded 21,000 tons of coal from the nearby Taybass, a major mining area under ... then proceeded eastwards towards the Bering Strait with coal from Dikson. This Arctic voyage is unique ...
2017/11/23 - 16:56
Arctic miners sue Murmansk Shipping Company -
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... whose business is mining anthracite, a hard variety of coal that contains relatively pure carbon and burns with ... and the 62 million earned transporting the company’s coal, is quite serious for the Murmansk Shipping Company and ...
2017/03/14 - 16:10
Russian Arctic ports have best year ever -
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... is changing its ownership structure, as Russia’s biggest coal exporter SUEK increases its stake in the port to 75 ...
2017/01/16 - 16:47
Moscow boasts potential, but Arctic transit shipments between Europe-Asia remain poor -
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... ships were general cargo carriers, two of which shipped coal from Vancouver, Canada, to Raahe in Finland. One of the ... show. Oil products accounted to 3,47 million tons, while coal was 219 thousand tons and gas condensate - 219 thousand ...
2017/03/02 - 16:49
Helicopter crash might add power to Russia’s push for new base on Svalbard -
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... revenues from the new businesses outpaces the traditional coal industry, the Arktikugol company admits. The expanding ... now totals 573, an increase of 100 (21%) from 2016. Coal in decline, but still growth in Russian activities in ...
2017/10/27 - 13:36