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Putin orders to move oil pipeline

Publish date: March 27, 2006

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline to be built more than 40 kilometers from Lake Baikal.

Speaking to Russian Academy of Sciences Vice-President Nikolai Laverov at a session on Siberia’s socioeconomic development in Tomsk on Wednesday, Putin asked: "Does it mean that if anything happens Baikal will not be polluted?" Laverov answered positively, Interfax reported. "The pipeline will be built to the north of the zone pointed out by Academician Laverov. That is settled then," Putin said.

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Public procurement as a transformation tool: lifting European machinery out of the fossil age

On 24 February 2025, Bellona Europa co-hosted a breakfast seminar at Norway House in Brussels alongside ZERO and the Mission of Norway to the EU, bringing together policymakers, manufacturers, and procurement practitioners around a single conviction: European cities hold a decisive and largely untapped lever for decarbonising construction. With the revision of the EU Public Procurement Directives on the horizon, the moment to use it is now. 

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