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Российская сторона готова профинансировать очередную эмиссию акций завода по производству ядерного топлива в Украине на сумму порядка 50 млн. долларов.

56239 — Украина и Россия продвинулись в вопросе строительства ядерного завода

Россия подтвердила готовность участвовать в финансировании очередной эмиссии акций завода по производству ядерного топлива в Украине на сумму 50 млн. долларов.

Договоренность была достигнута на встрече с генеральным директором Росатома Сергеем Кириенко, сообщил 3 июля министр энергетики и угольной промышленности Эдуард Ставицкий.

“По результатам встречи была подтверждена готовность российской стороны о финансировании очередной эмиссии акций частного акционерного общества “Завод по производству ядерного топлива” на сумму около 50 млн долларов”, – отметил министр, цитирует ЛІГАБізнесІнформ.

– “Ядерное” лобби укрепляет атомную зависимость Украины от России

Напомним, госконцерн “Ядерное топливо” и российское ОАО ТВЭЛ 27 октября 2010 года подписали соглашение о создании совместного предприятия для строительства завода по производству ядерного топлива.

Для строительства завода была выбрана площадка в поселке Смолино Кировоградской области.

Стоимость проекта – около 462,5 млн долларов, в том числе 139 млн долларов – это расходы, связанные с приобретением технологий производства ядерного топлива. Первую очередь завода планируется запустить в 2015 году и вывести его на полную мощность в 2020 году. Читати далі Россия выделит еще 50 млн. долларов на строительство ядерного завода в Украине →

Енергетика

Ukraine nuclear power plant extensions ‘undemocratic’

03/07/2013 press-centre

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Campaign groups today called on the European Commission to withdraw financial and political support for the lifetime extension of Ukrainian nuclear facilities.

Friends of the Earth Europe and its Ukrainian member Zelenyi Svit, CEE Bankwatch Network and Greenpeace CEE want the Commission to withhold the granting of a €300 million loan to the Ukraine NPP Safety Upgrade Project which would prolong the life of reactors scheduled to close in 2020.

The groups assert that the European Commission is supporting the Ukrainian authorities despite their clear failure to inform and consult with European citizens about continuation of their nuclear power generation.

Their call came in the form of an open letter to the European Council and European Parliament.Magda Stoczkiewicz, director of Friends of the Earth Europe said: “The European Commission is on one hand encouraging Ukraine to enforce democracy and the rule of law via the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and on the other hand, completely ignoring Kiev’s clear failure, as a signatory, to comply with the Espoo Convention. We believe that the European Commission should be decommissioning risky, expensive nuclear energy generation instead of propping it up.”

The United Nations ESPOO convention committee is responsible for examining whether appropriate environmental impact assessments have been conducted when the impacts of a project may be felt beyond one country. Ukraine has been a signatory of the Convention since 1999.

The ESPOO committee ruled non-compliance by Ukraine in the case of its nuclear reactors because it took the decision to extend the use of its old reactors without fully assessing the impact this could have on neighbouring countries.

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Енергетика

Shell: Global Mega-Frackers

25/06/2013 press-centre Залишити коментар

$Pages-from-Shell-Global-Megafrackers$ This briefing compiles numerous examples of Shell fracking around the world, but does not claim to be an exhaustive list. By timing the release with Yoko Ono’s involvement in the Meltdown Festival at the Shell-sponsored Southbank Centre, we hope to:

Increase awareness of the enormous role that Shell is playing in expanding fracking operations all over the world.
Create political space amidst the cultural showcase of the Meltdown Festival to understand the role that sponsorship plays in creating social legitimacy and cover for Shell’s dangerous operations.
Promote the creative, community resistance to fracking that is taking place all over the world, which is especially instructive in the context of the industry being poised to start fracking in numerous sites across the UK.

Download the briefing here.

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The era of relatively ‘easy to reach’ oil is over.

All fossil fuel extraction involves drilling and localised pollution, so none of it was ever ‘easy’ to reach. But global extraction levels for the oil that is comparatively straight forward to pump out of seems to have peaked. Instead, the fossil fuel industry is increasingly focusing on harder to extract resources. Enter ‘unconventionals’ – dirtier fossil fuels which are more complicated to extract and refine, like tar sands, oil shale and shale gas, or those that are located in hazardous and challenging regions like the Arctic, or deepwater drilling. Читати далі Shell: Global Mega-Frackers →