Baltic Newsletter

BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, № 101

On May 29 in the center of St. Petersburg, on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Malaia Sadovaia streets, a protest demonstration was held by environmental NGOs Bellona (St. Petersburg), Ecodefense (Moscow) and Green World (Sosnovy Bor – St. Petersburg).

BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, № 100

Moscow, 29 February 2008: the concept of a plan for staged decommissioning of Russian NPPs was presented in Rosatom by the international network of environmental NGOs.

BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, № 99

780 organizations and almost 800.000 individuals from all European countries have signed the petition against nuclear power in Europe. The petition was handed over to EU-energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs in April 2007.

BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, № 94

Spent Nuclear Fuel And Radioactive Waste In The North-west Russia. Problems And Possible Solutions” – this is the agenda of international seminar, which was organized in Murmansk 23-24 November.
The seminar was attended by the representatives of environmental community from European Russia, Norway, Russian nuclear science and business, also by Murmansk Oblast authorities.

Baltic Newsletter #89
On December 15, about 3 a.m. an explosion in the electrically heated furnace occurred. It was one of the furnaces belonging to ECOMET-S, a private company located on the territory of Leningrad NPP and specializing in the reprocessing of contaminated scrap metal by melting. The molten metal having the temperature of 1200°С was ejected from the furnace and hit three workers staying in the production unit.

Baltic Newsletter № 88

We, representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the Baltic Sea Region, members of the international "Coalition Clean Baltic" (CCB), appeal to you to guarantee in accordance with the Russian legislation the real possibility of public participation in the development of the General Plan Scheme of the "Harbor region "Gorki"" in the area of the Luga Bay" (Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland).

Baltic News № 87

"Nuclear Taj Mahal" a simulator centre for Indian nuclear submariners will start operation in September 2005 on the South coast of the Gulf of Finland in t. Sosnovy Bor (80 km West of St. Petersburg).

Baltic News № 86

At present a project is being considered, which envisages [the construction of] a large plant with annual output of 550 thousands tones of aluminium. Two sites for it are being chosen, each of them has great advantages.

Baltic News № 85

On December 22, 2004 a sociologist Olga Tsepilova from the St. Petersburg Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SI RAS) made the report for the Board of Inspectors under the Russian Commissioner for Human Rights (Vladimir Lukin). You can find the abridged version if her report below.