European gas price falls to pre-energy crisis level
Financial Times: Energy
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Regional benchmark trades at lowest rate since Russia began curtailing supplies to Europe in 2021
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280MW of BESS projects progress in Estonia and Latvia ahead of 2025 Baltic-Russia decoupling
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Bids have been received by Latvia's grid operator AST for an 80MW/160MWh BESS project while developers Corsica Sole and Everon will build a 200MW system in Estonia, as the Baltic region prepares to decouple from Russia's electricity system in 2025.
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Engaging Central Asia: Empowering the Regional Transformation
Energy Central
APRIL 4, 2024
Central Asia’s vast energy resources and potential transit routes between Europe and Asia create valuable opportunities to source and transport necessary materials without reliance on Russia.
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Drones targeted Russian oil refineries. Moscow is strengthening its front line, but the attackers' identity is unknown.
Energy Central
JUNE 1, 2023
Media Editing By Germán & Co, June 1, 2023 According to reports, the Ilyinsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region was minimally impacted by a possible drone attack. Intelligence reports suggest enemy forces are advancing ahead of a planned Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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U.S. Crude Oil Export Surged to New Record in 2023
R-Squared Energy
MARCH 23, 2024
Since 2018, the primary regional destinations for U.S. crude oil exports to Europe surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent EU sanctions prohibiting seaborne crude oil imports from Russia. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION The Netherlands was the top destination for U.S. In 2022, U.S.
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Prioritizing the Saving Solutions in Iran’s Natural Gas Consumption
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Prioritizing the Saving Solutions in Iran’s Natural Gas Consumption Iran’s estimated proved natural gas reserves were 1,203 trillion cubic feet as of December 2021, second only to Russia. Currently, natural gas pipelines have been developed in most of the regions. The high energy intensity and the.
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Climate security is energy security is national security
Business Green
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
As Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine sparks chaos on the global energy markets the need for a clean tech revolution has never been clearer. It is Europe's reliance on Russian energy and London's accommodation of the money generated by Europe's reliance on Russia's energy that has shaped the appeasement that has brought us to this point.
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U.S. Natural Gas Production Sets New Record High
R-Squared Energy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
dominated global natural gas production until the 1980s, at which time it ceded the lead to Russia. and Russia as the world’s leading natural gas-producing region. share of global production, followed by Russia (15.3% Russia has more proved natural gas reserves than any other country with 1.3 In 2022, U.S.
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Red alert: Portions of the Arctic are warming much faster than we thought
Grist
JUNE 17, 2022
The data comes from a portion of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia. degrees Celsius per decade, making it the fastest warming region known on Earth. degrees Celsius per decade, making it the fastest warming region known on Earth. “We This is an early warning for what’s happening in the rest of the Arctic.”.
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Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors
GreenBiz
JULY 8, 2021
The French cosmetics manufacturer operates three "dry factories" — in Spain, Russia and Italy — where all the water used in its industrial processes, such as for cleaning and cooling, is purified and reused onsite. Both Barclays and CDP cite L’Oréal as a leader in reducing water waste. And the company plans to introduce the system elsewhere.
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Minnesota nickel mine faces environmental justice challenges
Charged
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Today, much of the nickel that goes into EV batteries is produced by strip mines in Indonesia and the Philippines, and from a sulfur dioxide-spewing mine in Norilsk, Russia. The region is one of the poorest parts of Minnesota. This again is an assault on Native culture, a disturbance of our way of being.”
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Planet’s Data Leveraged to Identify Dark Vessels and Monitor the Illicit Russian Oil Trade
Planet Pulse
MAY 16, 2023
Our images have also enabled journalists to investigate ship-to-ship transfers, allegedly allowing oil to flow to Russia despite sanctions. The two examples below show an LNG and a POL vessel that largely operated “dark” following stops in Russia and were imaged while making port calls in China and performing ship-to-ship transfers.
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Norilisk spill sees court
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The first prosecutions have been brought in relation to a spill in Russia’s Arctic region in May, which involved the release of over 20,000 tonnes of diesel into rivers and subsoil near the Siberian city of Norilisk. Akhmetchin had been mayor of the region since September 2017, but resigned in July.
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You thought the U.S. fire season was bad. Russia’s is much worse.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
In mid August, the leader of the Republic of Sakha, in Russia, told residents not to go outside, and to avoid breathing unfiltered air if at all possible. At their peak, in August, 190 blazes were spreading across Sakha and Chukotka, Russia’s farthest northeastern regions. Smoke spread to the North Pole for the first time ever.
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Analysis: Impact of the Ukraine crisis on Europe’s energy markets
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has officially ordered a foreign deployment of the Russian military in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, and beyond. Following several sanctions already placed against Russia by Western powers, the EU announced it will immediately close new sanctions against Russia. Have you read?
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European scientists group urges ban on new natural gas boilers
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 24, 2023
But as we are putting the immediate dependency on Russia behind us, we must completely phase out gas and ramp up renewables,” explains William Gillett, EASAC’s Energy Programme Director. “We “We understand this is a necessary compromise as an emergency measure to make sure we keep the lights on, people warm and industries running.
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Optical fibres might be useful for nuclear waste exploration
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 10, 2022
Researches at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) – in Yekaterinburg, Russia – say the fibres are nontoxic and, as studies have shown, retain their outstanding properties when treated with ionizing beta radiation at doses of up to 1 MGy. An article describing the research is being published in the journal Optical Materials.
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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 19, 2024
In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. Since then, it has extended its geographic reach to include other regions.
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So, What Exactly Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
More than half of the 48 new reactors that the World Nuclear Association (WNA) lists as being built worldwide are in just four countries: China, India, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. To stay relevant in regions such as Europe and North America, the nuclear industry knows it needs a new plan. Meanwhile in the U.S., and the U.S.
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Lithuanian TSO aids Ukraine transmission grid
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The equipment will help ensure the supply of electricity, as Russia targets Ukraine’s energy grid.
IEA calls for lower speed limits, car-free Sundays, and public transport incentives to slash oil demand
Business Green
MARCH 18, 2022
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has this morning published a 10-point plan setting out how policymakers, businesses, and citizens in advanced economies could slash oil use so as to reduce the impacts of a "crippling supply crunch", shrink Russia's ability to finance its war machine, and curb rising global carbon emissions.
1.5TW of additional transmission needed for net zero by 2040
Smart Energy International
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
The potential savings and infrastructure requirements – based on the difference in costs between building a global net-zero power system by optimally expanding transmission and interconnectors versus putting constraints on their deployment – vary by region and country.
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Assessing the Fallout of the Baltimore Bridge Collapse on the Energy Market
R-Squared Energy
APRIL 1, 2024
This liquid fertilizer, primarily imported from Russia, serves agricultural demand, particularly in Midwestern markets. Due to its strategic location, Baltimore serves as a pivotal coastal port for distributing urea ammonium nitrate to key agricultural regions. However, other ports along the U.S.
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LKAB discovers 'Europe's largest' rare earth mineral deposit in Sweden
Business Green
JANUARY 16, 2023
Indeed, around 90 per cent of the world's rare earth minerals are mined in China, with much of the rest coming from Russia. Electrification, the EU's self-sufficiency and independence from Russia and China will begin in the mine," said Sweden's Minister for Energy, Business and Industry, Ebba Busch. "We
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Ecological Threat Report says 750 million globally are now affected by undernourishment
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Citizens in three of the four biggest polluting countries have a low level of concern – China, India, and Russia. · Undernourishment, where a person’s habitual food consumption is medically insufficient to sustain them, is expected to deteriorate due to increasing ecological degradation, rising inflation, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Satellite Data For Transparency in Global Conflict: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Planet Pulse
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
On February 24th, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, commencing the dramatic escalation of the war and the largest attack on any European country since World War II. On the morning of April 21, 2022, a local Ukrainian resident reported a mass burial site in their region.
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Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 14, 2021
Forty-one percent of coal imported by Europe in 2017 came from Russia, and its impacts on nearby communities are brutal. These provided the workforce needed to log the “taiga” forests and mine coal from the central Siberian region now known as the Kuzbass, the main Russian coal mining region currently supplying overseas markets.
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The Need for Leadership Among the Big CO2 Producers
Climate 4.0
OCTOBER 13, 2021
I provided four choices: Germany, France, Sweden, and Russia. Certainly, the Scandinavians enjoy their role in exerting so-called soft leadership, even though the region's four countries have a combined population of about 20 million people. All countries received votes, with Germany receiving the most.
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Siberian wildfires send smoke to North Pole in historical first
AGreenLiving
AUGUST 16, 2021
Aisen Nikolayev, head of the Siberian region Yakutia, declared last Friday a non-working day following heavy smoke from raging forest fires. Yakutia, the largest and coldest region in Russia , has dealt with forest fires on an “unprecedented scale” this year. acres, an area the size of Portugal.
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World risks 'multi-breadbasket failure' from climate change and conflict, scientists warn
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The disastrous droughts, heatwaves, and floods seen around the world's major crop-producing regions this summer have slashed harvest forecasts, pushed up food prices, and exacerbated hunger, prompting scientists to this week warn of a looming "multi-breadbasket failure" driven by escalating climate impacts.
Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 14, 2021
Forty-one percent of coal imported by Europe in 2017 came from Russia, and its impacts on nearby communities are brutal. These provided the workforce needed to log the “taiga” forests and mine coal from the central Siberian region now known as the Kuzbass, the main Russian coal mining region currently supplying overseas markets.
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Wood Mackenzie: Electric vehicles set to dominate global market
Business Green
JUNE 28, 2021
Internal combustion engines sales will be overwhelmingly concentrated in Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Russia, report predicts, as electrification abounds in Europe, US and China.
Prototype nuclear fusion plant to be hosted at West Burton power station site
Business Green
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Local leaders and universities hail decision as major boost to regional economy. They noted that the plant would benefit from being located in a region which has a heritage in energy generation and is in close proximity to "world-leading" research capabilities at regional universities, as well as manufacturing and construction firms. "We
A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in Europe
Grist
JULY 25, 2023
He had been infected with tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, a potentially deadly disease that experts say is spreading into new regions due in large part to global warming. Since the virus was first discovered in the 1930s, it has mainly been found in Europe and parts of Asia, including Siberia and the northern regions of China.
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UK unveils plan to ditch Russian oil imports by end of 2022
Business Green
MARCH 8, 2022
Government says it is working to secure alternative supplies from other regions, such as the US, the Netherlands, and the Gulf, as it prepares wider energy security plan. Businesses should use this year to ensure a smooth transition so that consumers will not be affected.".
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G7 nations pledge to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035
Business Green
MAY 27, 2022
In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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EU energy ministers address gas supply cuts in Europe
Smart Energy International
MAY 4, 2022
In reference to the Russian decree relevant for gas importers, the ministers reiterated the obligation of full compliance and consistency with the existing restrictive measures adopted in respect of Russia and their commitment to work closely with operators to follow a common approach on gas payments.
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in critical state – DTEK CEO
Smart Energy International
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Dozens of rockets hit energy infrastructure facilities in 11 regions and the city of Kyiv. There were problems with water supply in 8 regions. DTEK TPPs were attacked as well: Burshtynskaya TPP in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ladyzhynska TPP in the Vinnytsia Region, and Prydniprovska TPP in the Dnipropetrovsk Region were damaged.
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'Green Cold War': Why insurers and businesses should prepare for net zero geopolitical tensions
Business Green
JANUARY 19, 2022
But on the other hand, recent events in Europe have proved how quickly energy politics can be used as a foreign policy instrument, with Germany just this morning signalling that it would block the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany coming online if Russia invades Ukraine.
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BP exits Rosneft following Russia's attack on in Ukraine
Business Green
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
"The decision to exit the Rosneft stake will be an eye wateringly expensive one for BP, but the shocked board clearly felt they had no option but to pay the high price and distance the business from Russia's aggression," Streeter said. "It BP has operated in Russia for over 30 years, working with brilliant Russian colleagues.
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Planet Tracker: $7.4tr of global trade dependent on nature
Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed the international trade of natural resources - such as oil, gas and wheat - to the top of the international agenda," he said. But there are other systemic risks associated with the trade of natural resources that long pre-date the invasion.
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Shell Says Hydrogen Is Heavy Transport’s Future. What Now For Biofuels?
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 21, 2021
“There was initial hype, then things went quiet again, [and then] in the last 18 months, there has been a huge amount of interest,” Gordon McManus, research director for refining and oil products team for the Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia and Caspian region at Wood Mackenzie, said in an interview.
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Siberian wildfires send smoke to North Pole in historical first
AGreenLiving
AUGUST 16, 2021
Aisen Nikolayev, head of the Siberian region Yakutia, declared last Friday a non-working day following heavy smoke from raging forest fires. Yakutia, the largest and coldest region in Russia , has dealt with forest fires on an “unprecedented scale” this year. acres, an area the size of Portugal.
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EU plots reform of electricity markets to tackle 'fossil fuel crisis'
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
To further reduce Europe's dependency on Russia, Von der Leyen called for greater investment in renewable energy, announcing an additional €3bn of funding to build the EU's hydrogen market and the creation of a new European Hydrogen Bank that would guarantee the purchase of the low-carbon fuel, drawing resources from the EU's Innovation Fund.
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