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Oil pollution threatens Finish Gulf

Publish date: May 15, 2006

More than 50 tons of oil liquid leaked into the Yermilovka river in Leningrad region.

Prosecutor’s office is looking for a polluter and initiated a criminal case. Eliminators of the spill established barriers, but these measures are not enough. Oil can get to the Finnish Gulf in case of rains, RusEnergy reported. Military departments deny their fault in oil leakage in Leningrad region. The main stuff of the Leningrad military region stands on usage of either gas or solid fuel for heating.

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6th meeting of the Carbon Removal Expert Group summary and feedback 

The Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) has been formally approved by the Council on the 19th of November 2024 and entered into force on the 9th of December 2024, providing an official mandate for the Commission to develop methodologies on carbon farming and carbon removals. However, the technical documents and specifications are still being drafted and revised for input from the Carbon Removals Expert Group (CREG), of which Bellona is a member. 

Photo: Christening of Northern Lights’ first CO₂ carrier in Stavanger in 2025, by Olav Øye

A great leap towards a scaled European market for CCS: Northern Lights expands storage capacity, will store CO₂ from Stockholm  

Europe’s only multi-source, injection-ready CO₂ storage site will more than triple its capacity by 2028. The decision follows an agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 800 – 900 kilotonnes of CO₂ per year. “This decision is years in the making, and the culmination of decades of hard work from many, Bellona included” says Bellona Europa Director Jonas Helseth.

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