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Russian pipelines in critical condition

Publish date: November 14, 2006

The government's technical standards watchdog warned that almost all the country's oil and gas pipelines were in critical condition.

It is a possible sign of more shutdowns after the closure of a link to Lithuania, The St Petersburg Times reports. According to the head of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Inspection Konstantin Pulikovsky, Russia’s pipeline transport is in an unsatisfactory state. Environmental damage caused by oil and gas pipelines is inexcusable.

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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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