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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
Frozen plans: building of far northern coal mine is halted by sanctions and Arctic ice -
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Coal has been a key part of the ambitious Russian plans to ... building a fleet of vessels needed for the shipment of the coal through the remote Arctic waters. Severnaya ... are needed, each with a 90,000 tons carrying capacity. Coal digging on the Taymyr tundra. Photo: syradasay.com ...
2023/12/05 - 16:40
Asia-bound coal finds Siberian shortcut route, avoiding Murmansk -
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The first test batch with 30,000 tons of coal from Kuzbass will be shipped via the Yenisey River and ... in Krasnoyarsk and Lesosibirsk. In Ust-Port region, the coal will be reloaded to ships and sent to China,” said ... Fedorov,” to state-controlled news agency TASS . The coal will be sent by rail to Lososibirsk and Krasnoyarsk were ...
2023/04/03 - 12:37
Owner of Murmansk Seaport is now Russia's richest -
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... Murmansk Seaport that is owned by SUEK, Melnichenko’s coal company. SUEK in 2012 acquired its first major stake in ... remaining shares . The businessman uses the port to ship coal from the company’s rich coal deposits in the far east Russian Kusbass region and to ...
2023/04/05 - 01:10
Three months after Moscow adopted law on goods deliveries to northern territories, a crisis looms in isolated Arctic settlements -
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... in their villages without [heating] fuel. There is no coal for the boilers, in Oma [village] the ship with fuel has ... copter arrived in the village of Vyucheysky with 3 tons of coal. According to locals, it is the first time ever that ... the first time, a helicopter was commissioned to provide coal to the remote village of Vyucheysky. A difficult ...
2023/11/09 - 14:36
Americans attack Russian Arctic: new sanctions take aim at LNG and mining -
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... several years, Trotsenko has invested major sums in Arctic coal mines, in the remote Taymyr Peninsula, as well as in Vorkuta . Coal mine under development in the far northern Taymyr ... company looks set to soon start exporting large volumes of coal . The new sanctions will Trotsenko’s Arctic operations ...
2023/09/15 - 16:52
Russia starts renting out apartments to anyone at Norway’s Svalbard archipelago -
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... treaty have commercial and residence rights. Traditional coal mining is no longer seen as sustainable to maintain the ... a sharp decline in recent years. Europe’s ban on Russian coal hit hard on exports from Barentsburg, as the United ... without relying on relatively costly and ineffective coal mining.” There are about 400 residents in Barentsburg, ...
2023/02/16 - 11:45
Local elections in Svalbard are held for the first time with new restrictions for foreigners -
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... energy production on the island, shifting away from coal towards zero emissions . “We at Svalbard are ...
2023/10/10 - 19:39
Russia continues big dig on Arctic seabed -
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... and 1,8 million cubic from the waters near the new coal terminal of Severnaya Zvezda. The three industrial ... — the Arctic LNG 2, Vostok Oil and Syradasayskoye coal — will be instrumental for Russia to reach its ...
2023/02/16 - 15:13
Climate change brings cloudberry to Svalbard -
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... reindeer when he suddenly discovered the berries in the Coal Bay Valley, halfway between Longyearbyen and ... were some 20-30 ripe cloudberry at the same spot in the Coal Bay Vally. Photo: Stein Tore Pedersen / Norwegian Polar ...
2023/10/03 - 08:23
Isolated Russia invites faraway countries to upcoming Svalbard science center in Pyramiden -
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... the concrete plan to locate it to Pyramiden , the former coal mining community built by the Soviet Union ... “Russia is looking to revitalize its Svalbard presence. Coal mining is ineffective and costly, and the Russian state ... looking for new ways to maintain activities at Svalbard as coal mining hardly is able to produce enough to keep the ...
2023/10/30 - 21:10
Russian separatist flag waved on Svalbard -
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... . And the Russian state company that operates the local coal mine and runs local tourism activities, organised ... The small “ghost town” of Pyramiden was abandoned by coal miners in the late 1980s and now houses primarily ...
2023/05/15 - 18:08
Russia plans Svalbard science complex in cooperation with "friendly states" -
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... for new ways to maintain activities at Svalbard after coal mining is supposed to be drastically reduced in the ... Sea and Greenland Sea. Among new ideas to replace coal mining, Arctic tourism was initiated a few years back, ...
2023/06/12 - 10:27
The new trade. Shipments from Murmansk show Russia's great partner shift -
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... 50 million tons of goods annually, most of it crude oil, coal, as well as fertilisers and processed nickel. Ship ... us conquer new markets and increase [local] exports of coal to 18 million tons per year,” he said during a recent ...
2023/01/25 - 12:10
Bishop Iyakov, who backs Putin’s war, raised giant cross at Svalbard without Norway’s knowledge -
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... hall, cultural center, and cantina for the miners that dug coal out of the shafts deep inside the permafrost ...
2023/08/12 - 10:17
Russian diplomat staged Navy Parade at Norway’s Svalbard archipelago -
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... settlement at Svalbard. Although there is a minimum of coal left to be dug out from the tunnels deep inside the ...
2023/07/31 - 23:41
New Arctic industry gives boost in icy shipments -
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... of 74 escort shipments were made to the Yenisey Bay where coal company Severnaya Zvezda is in the process of developing ...
2023/07/12 - 13:56
Svalbard residents on the boycott of Russia, climate change, and search for a new sustainable energy source. -
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2023/11/25 - 15:46
Moscow outlines big future for Arkhangelsk Seaport -
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... the Arctic LNG 2, the Vostok Oil and the Syradasayskoye coal mine. The development of the Arkhangelsk Seaport comes ...
2023/04/14 - 15:12
Moscow assures it will not lower ambitions in Arctic -
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... the coast of the Kara Sea, and in 2024 — the nearby new coal terminal of the Severnaya Zvezda. But there are looming ...
2023/02/13 - 16:41