BarentsObserver, December 8, 2009
Norilsk-Nikel backs out from eco-deal
Norilsk-Nikel has informed Norwegian authorities that they will not fulfil the agreement with the Nordic Investment Bank on improvement of the environmental impact from the smelter in Nikel on the Kola Peninsula.
Nunatsiaq NEWS: Climate Change December 07, 2009. By Jane George.
U.S. scientists: warming Arctic not a pretty picture. Experts at Copenhagen say Arctic warming may be irreversible
COPENHAGEN — As sea ice on the Arctic Ocean thins and shrinks, Greenland’s ice sheet melts and seas turn acid, water temperatures will go up, sea levels rise, and marine life die, U.S scientists attending the COP15 gathering in Copenhagen said this week.
By Marianne Bom, COP15 Copenhagen, News. December 7, 2009
Hope for deal at conference
“A deal is within our reach,” the Danish Prime Minister said on Monday – the first day of the UN climate change conference.
The Vancouver Sun, December 3, 2009. By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service
Arctic sea route to be renamed 'Canadian Northwest Passage'
A controversial bid to rename the country's Arctic sea route the "Canadian Northwest Passage" has passed almost unanimously in the House of Commons, a surprising outcome after Inuit leaders and opposition MPs argued the renaming process initially lacked input from the North's aboriginal inhabitants.
Russia Today: December 4, 2009
Moscow and Nato in reset mode
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Brussels for the first formal Russia-NATO Council meeting since the war in South Ossetia in August last year.
Gore and Støre to present report on melting ice
Former Vice President Al Gore and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre will present their global report on melting ice at a side event of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) 14 December.
BarentsObserver, December 3, 2009
Finnmark to help future gas capital Teriberka
Finnmark County plan to help regional authorities in Murmansk Oblast in developing Teriberka, the small fishing village that will house the Shtokman LNG plant.
BarentsObserver, December 3, 2009
Pechora LNG-plant to target Asian market
The private company CH-Oil&Gaz says they will build a LNG-plant to commercialize the gas from Kumzhinskoye and Korovinskoye fields in the Timan-Pechora basin in Nenets.