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Dying industry is still big business in Murmansk -
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Coal continues to be a main export commodity for the far ... percent from 2019. An overwhelming share of the goods is coal, and practically all of it is exported. The Murmansk Commercial Seaport is owned by coal company SUEK. The growth came first of all in the last ...
2021/01/27 - 17:05
Biggest Arctic port ties future to coal -
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... #ffffff} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Exports of coal from the Russian Arctic city might almost double to more ... million tons per year when construction of the new local coal terminal is completed. An agreement was this week signed ... have capacity for annual exports of 9 million tons of coal. That volume is due to double as the second and third ...
2018/11/21 - 13:08
Russia's coal-fired power plant in Svalbard faces overhaul -
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The coal plant in Barentsburg was on the agenda in a recent ... CO2. The commission also discussed a cut in local coal production. Coal digging in the archipelago must be reduced in order to ...
2021/11/04 - 17:01
Amid state go-ahead for Arctic coal, growing doubts about big dig -
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... December issued a positive assessment of the projected coal mine on the northern tip of peninsula Taymyr. The assessment regards the Nizhnelemberovsky coal pit, a deposit that is part of one of VostokCoal’s ... and other objects, the Glavgosexpertiza informs. Vostok Coal controls a number of licenses in the region that has got ...
2019/12/13 - 14:31
Coal tycoon confirms construction start at new Taymyr terminal -
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... be a key component in the development of the Syradasaysky coal field. Up to five million tons of coal will be exported from the site to buyers in Asia through ... the Northern Sea Route, the company says. The Syradayskoye coal field is located on the northern tip of peninsula ...
2021/01/26 - 16:47
Pyramiden - A Soviet ghost town in Arctic Norway -
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... town is easy to understand when looking up. High above the coal mines, the towering top of the mountain looks truly like ... that once was inhabited by Russian and Ukrainian coal miners and their families. Although not stated ... main idea with the settlement was not primarily to get coal. What could be taken out from beneath the permafrost ...
2018/10/03 - 12:41
Climate change hits back, Svalbard coal mine flooded by melting glacier -
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... Longyearbyen and is the only remaining Norwegian operated coal mine on the Arctic archipelago. The mine supplies the local coal-power plant with about 30,000 tons of coal annually, while another 80,000 tons are exported to ...
2020/07/30 - 09:41
One of Russia’s richest men mulls big investments in Arctic coal and infrastructure -
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... and infrastructure projects. It is all connected with coal. Eyes on Taymyr Peninsula Subsidiary company Severnaya ... Zvezda owns the license to the large Syradasayskoye coal field in Taymyr and Trotsenko intends to send millions ... of the Kara Sea, not far from the license areas of Vostok Coal. Despite a law suit from Russian environmental ...
2019/08/14 - 11:38
Norway prolongs coal mining at Svalbard until 2025 -
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“The coal will be used in production of steel in Europe,” says ... of raw materials,” Vestre says. The majority of the coal export from Svalbard will be used for reductions in ... Longyearbyen and is the only remaining Norwegian-operated coal mine in the Arctic archipelago. The mine supplies the ...
2022/09/02 - 11:46
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
Coal tycoon buys Vorkuta mines -
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... in the process of developing the remote Severnaya Zvezda coal project in Taymyr has acquired another far northern coal company. On the 1st of December, Russkaya ... Photo: Premier.gov.ru Vorkutaugol is one of the biggest coal companies in Russia and accounts for more ...
2021/12/13 - 23:53
18 million tons of coal seek a way out of Murmansk -
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... lead to the successful development of Lavna, the major coal terminal project on the western shore of the Kola Bay. ... terminal is projected to handle up to 18 million tons of coal per year and a first development train is due to be ... represent interests closely associated with the powerful coal industry in Kuzbass, the coal region in south Siberia. ...
2019/02/14 - 12:01
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
Murmansk Transport Hub in trouble as ministry terminates contract on railway construction -
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With the European coal market in sharp decline, Russia’s new giant export harbor for coal, under construction in Lavna outside Murmansk, is ... Work on the new facilities stopped earlier this fall . No coal harbor means that the majority of tonnage supposed to be ...
2020/11/11 - 14:53
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
Longyearbyen to shut down coal-power plant -
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... Plant is the only energy producer in Norway running on coal. Together with the coal power plant in the Russian settlement Barentsburg on ... largest possible share of renewables.” Shutting down the coal power plant most likely bring a closure to the last ...
2021/01/12 - 11:19
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
From dirty coal mining to protected land, Norway expands national park on Svalbard -
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... opening of the national park. Until a few years ago, big coal vessels sailed the Van Mijen fjord to load coal from the Svea mine. Today, work is in full swing to ... facility. In total, the clean-up work after decades of coal mining is estimated to cost 706 million kroner (€74 ...
2021/06/21 - 12:52
State evaluators approve new Taymyr coal project -
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Coal digging at the Syradasaysky field in Russia’s remote ... this week issued its official approval. The Syradasaysky coal project includes a major terminal on the coast of the ... has reserves amounting to 5,7 million tons of high-quality coal suitable for use in the metallurg industry, the state ...
2020/10/16 - 11:59
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