Thom Hartmann: Wind Now Cheaper Than Coal in Australia
“… Let’s take a lesson from Australia and the Eurozone, which have both set up carbon taxes to make 19th century energy barons pay for at least some of the damage they’ve done. And then use that revenue for a green energy revolution here in America….”
Time to Take Notice: How Renewable Energy Is Becoming Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Which is why we as a nation need to throw everything we have at making renewable energies our primary way of powering America into the 21st century.
February 10, 2013
Something interesting is happening in Australia.
A new study by the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance has found that unsubsidized renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels like coal and gas.
In fact, it’s a lot cheaper.
Data shows that wind farms in Australia can produce energy at AU$80/MWh. Meanwhile, coal plants are producing energy at AU$143/MWh and gas at AU$116/MWh.
Unlike the United States, where energy companies can pollute and have the costs (from illness to environmental degradation) picked up by the taxpayers, Australia has a carbon tax, which partially explains why renewables have a price advantage. But the data shows that even without the cost of carbon tax factored in; wind energy is still 14-cents cheaper than coal and 18-cents cheaper than gas.
And this is in a nation that relies more heavily on coal than any other industrialized nation in the world. But that coal reliance will soon change, as companies in Australia are quickly adopting new, cheaper renewable energies. As the study found, banks and lending institutions in Australia are now less and less likely to finance new coal plants, because they’ve simply become a bad investment.
And, while Australian wind is cheapest now, by 2020 – and maybe sooner – solar power will also be cheaper than coal and gas in Australia. The energy game is rapidly changing in that country.
Swissgrid’s response to the European Energy Strategy 2050 consultation
“…In its response, Swissgrid stated that energy reform is already a reality in the European grid network for power transmission. Increasing feed-in fluctuations due to wind and solar power alongside the simultaneous cessation of nuclear base load generation are additionally challenging the grid management. This development will continue and intensify with implementation of the first package of Energy Strategy 2050 measures also in Switzerland…”
11.02.2013
Swissgrid supports the energy strategy of the federal government. It would like to contribute to attaining the ambitious goals of the Energy Strategy 2050. However, from a transmission grid viewpoint, the first package of measures is insufficient. The proposed measures are not nearly enough to guarantee today’s extremely high security of supply in the future.
Swissgrid submitted its response to the consultation on the first package of Energy Strategy 2050 measures to the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) at the end of January within the prescribed time. In doing so, it deliberately concentrated on those legislative proposals that concern its tasks as an independent grid company.
Energy reform reality
UK -Sizewell: Head of emergency planning admits nuclear accident consultation documents could have been thrown out as ‘junk’ mail
Extra copies of the consultation documents can be ordered by telephoning 01473 265321.
By David Green Saturday, February 16, 2013
12:00 PM
Ten thousand copies of the documents – inviting comments on a revised off-site emergency plan – were sent to homes within and just outside a 4km radius of the nuclear site. But the envelopes were not individually addressed and were only marked “Important Documents” – similar to markings on a range of “junk” mail.
A proportion may have ended up unopened in bins, emergency planning chief Andy Osman has conceded following criticism of the way the consultation has been handled.
“Royal Mail gave us a range of possible markings but in retrospect it may have been better to clearly identify the documents as relating to the Sizewell emergency plan review,” he said.
The draft plan suggests the current 2.4km zone – the area for which detailed emergency plans exist – is expanded to 4km to include the whole of the town of Leiston and an overall population of 6,500. The current zone covers only a small part of the town and a resident and working population of just 800 people.
TEPCO Hires UK Propaganda Chief
“…To be sure, the nuclear issue still divides opinion sharply. Judge admits that a repeat of the Chernobyl disaster would close the industry down for 20 years…” 22 July 2009 –Barbara Judge
Published on Feb 11, 2013
TEPCO has hired Barbara Judge, former head of UK Atomic Regulation as Nuclear Safety Chief for the struggling power company.
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Dr David Lowry • 4 years ago
Barbara Judge just doesn’t seem to learn. It is extraordinary that a person deemed suitable to head the once prestigious UK atomic energy authority is so ignorant of the nuclear issue. Maybe it is because she dabbles in so many directorships- you cite a reported 30- she has insufficient time to read even the basic texts on nuclear. For example, you quote Ms Judge as stating that when she came over here (UK) in 1993 “more than 20 per cent of our energy was delivered by nuclear power.” This is totally incorrect. Nuclear power has never – nor will ever – provide 20% of our ENERGY.She is referring to electrical energy ie power. But the error is important, as nuclear provides about 16% of our power, equating to around 5.5% of our energy use. She made the exact same mistake (along with three other factual booboos ) while introducing an energy experts’ seminar – on UK new nuclear propects – which I attended a few years ago. I corrected her then, but she seems not to have learned even this basic fact.
Ms Judge also perpetuates the dangerous inaccuracy that “just 3,500 people died in the world’s worst nuclear accident.” Even teeh pro-nuclear World Heath Organisation cites 8,000 deaths. Studies such as the TORCH* report put the more likely figure at 60,000, with many in Western Europe, not in Belarus, Ukraine or Russia, where most studies locate the deaths.
*http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/…
Your interviewer makes his own silly error, asserting ” Indeed, nuclear is rarely mentioned as a ‘renewable’ — oddly, since it is carbon-free.” There is a good factual reason why nuclear is not mentioend as a renewable: it isn’t one! Its fuel is uranium, and is fissioned in a the reactor core, and partly consumed: like fossil fuels. Atomic aficionados, like Ms Judge, believe you can – and should- recover some of the unburned uranium, and the plutonium created in the waste, and re-use it. But making use of nuclear explosive materials
as a fuel has its own security problems!
While poorly informed people like Ms Judge are given jobs to promote and oversee nuclear power, critics will rightly challenge its merits.
From the comments…see link below for more!!
And an old article from the “glory days” of nuclear
The nuclear power-dresser
Elliot Wilson meets Barbara Judge, the American-born doyenne of British boardrooms, who believes we should strive to regain our lost leadership of the global nuclear industry
Elliot Wilson 22 July 2009
Barbara Judge is an extraordinary human being, particularly for those of us who struggle to iron a shirt. Apart from her flawless grooming — in a power suit with a starched ruff, she resembles a cross between Marie Antoinette and Jessica Tandy — she has more titles than most monarchs. Lady Judge, a British-American dual citizen married to philanthropist Sir Paul Judge, sits on boards on both sides of the Atlantic, chairs the School of Oriental and African Studies, and is a trustee of the Royal Academy.
Her past is no less impressive. In 1980, the then Barbara Thomas became the youngest-ever head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. By 2007, she was reported to hold no fewer than 30 directorships. And for the past five years, she has chaired the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the state-owned body vested with dismantling our ageing nuclear plants and, since 2006, providing expertise on building new ones. Sitting in the bland offices of a Mayfair private equity firm (she’s not a director, surprisingly, just a friend of the owner) the nuclear chief is hotly vocal — even slightly offended — at the state of the UK nuclear industry. When she came over here in 1993, she points out, ‘more than 20 per cent of our energy was delivered by nuclear power. But if we keep decommissioning, then by 2020 just 2 per cent of our power will be delivered by nuclear. And no one’s told me that we will need 18 per cent less power by then.’
#Radioactive #Researchers Oblige： Some Fukushima City Residents who Want to Eat the Produce They Bring In to Measure Radioactivity
Friday, February 15, 2013
EXSKF
I couldn’t tell that was what it was, when I saw the title of an article at one of the local newspapers in Fukushima, but it turned out that was what it was.
Go figure. Let them, at this point. After nearly 2 years, they choose to be there and choose to grow their food and eat it. “Oh we weren’t told” doesn’t fly any more.
I hope they don’t feed it to their children or grandchildren, but hope has been just that, hope.
Fukushima farmers certainly do feed it to the rest of Japan, because they are victims of TEPCO and residents in big cities outside Fukushima owe it to them, in their minds.
From Fukushima Minpo (2/16/2013):
破砕せずに放射性物質測定 福島、機器新たに運用開始へ
Radioactivity measurement without chopping up samples – new equipment will be used in Fukushima
東北大は１９日から福島市のモニタリングセンターで農作物や食品など切り刻まなくても測定できる放射性物質測定器の運用を始める。「１キロも切り刻むのは面倒」「測定した後、食べたい」など市民の要望に応える。
On February 19, Tohoku University will start using the new equipment to measure radioactivity in farm produce and food items without chopping them up at a monitoring center in Fukushima City. It is to respond to the residents’ complaints and requests, such as “it’s too tedious to chop up 1 kilogram of sample” and “I want to eat it after it’s tested”.
測定器は、市放射線対策アドバイザーで、同大大学院工学研究科量子エネルギー工学専攻生活環境早期復旧技術研究センター長の石井慶造教授が開発した。
The new equipment was developed by Professor Keizo Ishii of Tohoku University Graduate School of Engineering Department of Quantum Science who is also an advisor to Fukushima City on radiation countermeasures.
通常は、放射性物質を感知するセンサー１本を使用するところ、７本使用し、破砕せずに、少量でも測定できることが特徴。籠に農作物や食品を入れたまま機器に入れ５分で測定できる。検出下限値は２５ベクレル。０・７キロから３キロまで測定できる。
The regular equipment has one sensor that detects radioactivity. Professor Ishii’s equipment will use 7 sensors, and will be able to measure radioactivity without chopping up the samples and in small sample amounts. Farm produce and food items can be left in a basket which is then placed in the equipment, and it takes only 5 minutes to measure. The detection limit is 25 becquerels/kg, and the sample sizes can be from 0.7 kilogram to 3 kilograms.
これまで同大と福島市が協力し、運用開始に向けてデータなどを集めてきた。担当者は「家庭菜園などの少ない農産物も測って持ち帰ることができる。市民の安心につなげたい」と話している。
Tohoku University and Fukushima City have been collaborating on introducing this equipment. The city official in charge says, “Farm produce in small quantities, as from home gardens, can be measured, and people can take them back home. We want to use this equipment for the peace of mind of the city residents.”
１８日から申し込みを受け付け、１９日から測定を開始する。測定は火曜から金曜日。問い合わせは 電話０８０（５７３７）１５０７へ。
Residents can sign up on February 18, and the measurement will start on February 19. The measurement is done from Tuesday to Friday every week. For more details, call 080(5737)1507.
Peace of mind for 25 becquerels/kg detection limit. Some peace.
In case you haven’t figured it out, they measure radioactivity in Japan not to understand what’s been going on but to feel safe. If measuring radioactivity doesn’t result in people feeling safe, they don’t bother measuring, which is exactly what happened in the very early days of the nuclear accident.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/radioactive-fukushima-fukushima-city.html
Charity bike ride to be held from Tokyo to Minamisoma
Prime Minister Naoto Kan waited until April 2, more than three weeks after the quake and tsunami, to visit an evacuation shelter, making then-President George W. Bush’s delay in viewing Hurricane Katrina’s damage seem trivial.
Feb. 18, 2013 – 06:34AM JST
TOKYO —
From April 19 to April 21, 10 British and Australian expats will cycle approximately 330 kilometers from Tokyo to Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, hoping to raise 1 million yen for the Save Minamisoma Project.
The project was set up by a group of expats in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and makes fortnightly trips to Minamisoma with donations of food and water to help the 7,000 residents who are still living in temporary housing units nearly 2 years after the tsunami struck.
A more long-term project has been set up by another British expat based in Tokyo, Jo Wilkinson, who has set up a company called Vintage Kimonos to create jobs in Tohoku and provide a long term source of funding to help rebuild communities worst affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Their profits are being donated to schools and orphanages in the Tohoku region.
For more information, please click here.
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hereforever at Feb. 18, 2013 – 08:33AM JST
Good on you, guys. Great to see some still cares about those unfortunate to be still living in shelters. My thoughts and prayers with you all. Keep warm and God Speed.
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kurisupisu at Feb. 18, 2013 – 10:15AM JST
What has happened to the billions of yen donated to the homeless and dispossessed in Fukushima ?
It has been used to buy heavy machinery for prisons and to make contact lens factories etc!!!!!!
It is people that are at grassroots like Wilkinson that are really making a difference
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Dave Lawrence at Feb. 18, 2013 – 10:15AM JST
I’m one of the riders taking part in this charity ride and would like to thank everybody in advance for their support. Any donation, no matter how big or small, is greatly appreciated.
As well as the link in the article above, you can follow our progress at https://www.facebook.com/TokyoBrits and also https://twitter.com/TokyoBrits!
http://www.donationto.com/TokyoBrits-Save-Minamisoma-Project
City seethes in radiation zone (Oregonian in Japan)
Published: Saturday, April 09, 2011, 11:01 PM Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012, 10:53 AM
MINAMI SOMA, Japan — Threatened by food shortages and radiation, the mayor of this city issued a desperate YouTube plea March 24 after the tsunami that killed hundreds here and destroyed houses including his own.Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai spoke urgently into a camcorder, saying politicians and reactor managers had left his city in Japan’s nuclear shadow isolated and uninformed. He asked for volunteers to deliver supplies. He urged reporters to come see for themselves.
“People are literally drying up as if they are under starvation tactics,” Sakurai said in the English-subtitled video. “We are fighting against the invisible threat of radiation and contamination. I beg you, as the mayor of Minami Soma city, to help us.”
Fukushima NHK Documentary: “A Town Torn Apart”
Published on Feb 17, 2013
Voices from 3.11: A Town Torn Apart; Namie, Fukushima Prefecture
Namie, in Fukushima Prefecture, was hit by a tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake. A day later, people within a 10-kilometer radius of the local nuclear power plant had to evacuate before they could search for lost family members. It was more than a month before the search began.
Survivors couldn’t identify bodies that had been lying outside for so long. They’re wracked with guilt for being unable to perform proper burial rites. This program highlights their heart-wrenching experience.
All material provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.
Hongyanhe nuclear power station in NE China
“…He also brought evidence of frequent discharges of radioactive waste into Gansu water-ways. Sun lost his job in 1994, but kept advocating on behalf of sick miners and an endangered environment, which led him to be subjected to numerous arrests, including being detained by security forces for 8 months in 2005. In 2006, the German group Nuclear-Free Future Resistance Award recognized Sun for his extensive advocacy work…”
Xinhua | 2013-2-18 9:40:09
By Agencies
Staff work in the main control room of first unit of Hongyanhe nuclear power station near Wafangdian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Feb. 17, 2013. The Hongyanhe nuclear power station, the first nuclear power plant and largest energy project in northeast China, started operation on Sunday afternoon.
Construction on the first phase of the project, which features four power generation units to be built at a cost of 50 billion yuan (7.96 billion US dollars), began in 2007 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. The four units will generate 30 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) of electricity annually by then.
Construction on the second phase of the project, which features two power generation units to be built with an investment of 25 billion yuan, started in May 2010 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The power plant will generate 45 billion kwh of electricity after it is fully completed in 2016. (Xinhua)
Photo taken on Aug. 9, 2012 shows the first unit of Hongyanhe nuclear power station near Wafangdian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province.
Photo taken on July 12, 2012 shows the Hongyanhe nuclear power station near Wafangdian, northeast
China’s Liaoning Province.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/762163.shtml
2A Call for Transparency: China’s Emerging Anti-Nuclear Movement
2007
This commentary discuses the environmental implications of China’s increasing reliance on nuclear energy and the fledgling anti-nuclear movement in the country. Concerns about China’s nuclear era have triggered concerns among citizens and environmentalists across China who are not involved in the decision-making process. The author concludes that with increased knowledge and capacity, a full- fledged Chinese anti-nuclear movement could be in the making.
Northwest China—A Legacy of
Nuclear Wasteland
Northwestern China, particularly Xinjiang and Qinghai, has for decades been the site of nuclear
weapon testing and uranium mining, which even government documents have identified as the source
of higher cancer rates and other illnesses among people living close to the sites.1 Such testing also has taken an ecological toll; for example, in Xinjiang,
Lake Lop Nor was wiped off the map due to nuclear testing and related human activities. In Gansu Province, uranium mining and corruption within military mining companies have produced grave human and ecological tragedies.
According to Sun, a former miner at Gansu’s most important uranium mine Project 792, improper handling of radioactive material from the mine has led to contamination of water and soil and a sharp rise in incidences of cancerous tumors, leukemia, birth defects, and miscarriages in the surrounding communities (HRIC, 2005). The surrounding area has become devoid of wildlife, and livestock suffer from high death rates, most likely linked to contaminated water. Since 1988, Sun has repeatedly traveled to Beijing to report on corrupt officials stealing government funding meant to clean up the mines and relocate uranium miners and their families away from the mines.
He also brought evidence of frequent discharges of radioactive waste into Gansu water-ways. Sun lost his job in 1994, but kept advocating on behalf of sick miners and an endangered environment, which led him to be subjected to numerous arrests, including being detained by security forces for 8 months in 2005. In 2006, the German group Nuclear-Free Future Resistance Award recognized Sun for his extensive advocacy work.2
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Mark Thomas Secret Map Of Britain – Nuclear and security services expose
This is the only video i have not been able to post the link or embed, it appears to heave some script attached i will post the large part of the video and you will have to add the http://wwww. Strange? UPDATED link on bottom works OK…..
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The Mark Thomas Secret Map Of Britain. Some of the places that the UK government denies knowledge of:
“It’s not a secret underground bunker, it’s just some underground tunnels”
Prof Chris Busby ( the most radioactive house in Britain), the Lockerbie Pan Am cover-up and more!
Must watch!!
Australia wants Israel to provide details on death of ‘Prisoner X’
“I need to know what the contact was between Australian agencies and those of Israel, and I need to see what the Israelis want to tell Australia,” Carr stated. “The key is to get all the information.”“…The Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday that Israel has agreed to pay millions in compensation to Zygier’s family.
A source told the newspaper that Israel agreed to pay millions of shekels several weeks ago, after an investigation concluded that Zygier’s death had been a suicide and before the affair was exposed by the Australian media….”
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Sunday that the ministry was seeking answers in a “formal report” from the Tel Aviv regime over the circumstances surrounding the suspicious death of 34-year-old Ben Zygier known as ‘Prisoner X.’
On February 12, reporter Trevor Bormann revealed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the prisoner who had worked for Mossad for ten years was “found hanged in a cell with state-of-the-art surveillance systems” near Tel Aviv in December 2010. Carr told reporters in Sydney that the Australian government had “asked” the Israeli regime “for a contribution to that report.”
The Australian foreign minister said Canberra wanted Tel Aviv to “submit… an explanation of how this tragic death came about.”
The Real Rogue Nuclear State… David Duke censored!
Published on Feb 16, 2013
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With no way to process it, US will bury 70,000 tons of nuclear waste
“It also ups the ante for reactor accident danger, as in the case of Fukushima, because MOX fuel has plutonium in it.”
“…So-called MOX fuel, short for mixed-oxide, is used in nuclear warheads and usually consists of a mix of plutonium and uranium.
The stock of used nuclear fuel currently held at 79 temporary locations in 34 US states “is massive, diverse, dispersed, and increasing,” according to the Oak Ridge report…”
Published: 01 February, 2013, 08:05
Edited: 02 February, 2013, 06:31
RT
With two decades to go before it can reprocess spent nuclear fuel, the US will have to bury nearly 70,000 tons of it, a research lab reports. It comes after Congress and the Obama administration defunded a planned nuclear waste repository in 2011.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a facility that does research for the Department of Energy (DOE), said that “about 68,450 [metric tons] or about 98 percent of the total current inventory by mass, can proceed to permanent disposal without the need to ensure retrievability for reuse or research purposes” in its report, published near the end of 2012. The rest of the waste, the report said, could be kept available for research on fuel reprocessing and storage.
The report was fairly obscure until being cited in a DOE document that showed plans to find a new permanent waste dump after Congress and the Obama administration cut funding for the Yucca Mountain repository in 2011.
Reprocessing has little support in Washington due to concerns that spent fuel could fall into the wrong hands. Nevertheless the DOE started looking into reprocessing methods in 2005.
But following the March 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, US officials became wary of recycling radioactive waste. The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, co-chaired by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, said that “no currently available or reasonably foreseeable reactor and fuel cycle technology developments — including advances in reprocessing and recycling technologies — have the potential to fundamentally alter the waste management challenges the nation confronts over at least the next several decades, if not longer” in a report.
You are stupid – English Version
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You are stupid
We know that you’re stupid. Of course, you would never admit that to yourself. You’re in denial, just like all the other people.
But we have spent a lot of money on market research, we have observed you and all the others for some time now – and we know with certainty:
You are all stupid.
Therefore, we tell you that nuclear power is an environmentally friendly form of energy.
Even though a safe repository for high-level radioactive waste has yet to be found.
Therefore, we assure you that nuclear power plants operate reliably.
Even if half the reactors in Germany have just been shut down due to safety concerns.
Therefore, we preach parsimony and assert that nuclear power is very economical.
Even if we currently reap billions of subsidies that are paid for by your taxes.
Therefore, we act as if the civilian use of nuclear power has no military background, even when supposedly “civilian” nuclear power plants, such as the reactor in Chernobyl, allow for the production of weapons-grade plutonium.
Even though “civil” uranium enrichment facilities like the one in Gronau, Germany, are also capable of delivering the material for a bomb.
Lucky that you are so stupid. If you were smart, you and all the others, we would have a serious problem. For your stupidity is our business.
Let’s not sell up for stupid
Speak out against nuclear power and nuclear weapons
US Air Force splits space, missile career field for officers
“…This change will allow the Air Force to further strengthen the nuclear enterprise,…”
“…All new Air Force officer accessions headed for careers in the former “Space and Missile Operations” AFSC will be classified as either a “Space Operations” (AFSC 13S) officer or “Nuclear and Missile Operations” (AFSC 13N) officer….”
In the wake of this week’s cancellation of the ‘Back to the Moon’ Constellation Program by US President Obama, kit company Fantastic Plastic’s 1:288 scale model of the 1960s-era Project Orion nuclear spacecraft is particularly interesting. Think of a 4000-tonne spacecraft propelled not by chemical rockets, but by massive pulse waves from a string of nuclear bombs blasting away behind the stern. Yes, it was a serious proposal that could have enabled a trip to Pluto and back in less than a year.
- Source: National Institutes of Health
- Posted Saturday, February 16, 2013
The Air Force has split the space and missile career field in an effort to ensure more focused development for officers performing these critical missions in increasingly complex operational environments, Air Force officials announced today.
Under the old construct, more than 50 percent of space-coded company grade officers’ development time was spent as a missileer, said Col. Joseph Prue, career field manager for space operations officers.
“Space and Missile Operations have become more and more technical in application and execution–each in their own unique ways,” said Prue. “This split will enable each career field to continue cultivating technical expertise via separate, yet equally important, avenues in order to be more effective and efficient in meeting current and future AF needs.”
This change will allow the Air Force to further strengthen the nuclear enterprise, said Col. Zannis Pappas, the new career field manager for “Nuclear and Missile Operations,” or AFSC 13N.
U.S. expansion in Russian Arctic
ExxonMobil will help Rosneft explore another seven of the most prospective hydrocarbon structures in the Russian Arctic.
Image : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/22/arctic-ice-melting-oil-drilling
The U.S. company will be responsible for the mapping and exploration of seven more fields in the Kara Sea, Chukchi Sea and Laptev Sea, a press release from Rosneft informs. The new fields, which cover as much as 600,000 square kilometers of waters, will be included in a joint venture between the two companies.
As previously reported, Rosneft and ExxonMobil in late August 2011 signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement in the Russian Arctic, which amongst other includes the development of the three East Prinovozemelsky license blocks in the Kara Sea, an area covering 126,000 square kilometers. A joint venture was established to follow up the projects.
The two companies now have a total of about 720,000 square km of waters in their joint Arctic field portfolio. According to Rosneft, the licenses include the most promising, and at the same time, the least explored, areas on the Russian continental shelf.
The additional agreement with ExxonMobil comes as Rosneft gets the green light from the government for the acquisition of another 12 Arctic licenses. At the same time, the company has committed itself to step up exploration of its Arctic fields. According to the agreements, it will be ExxonMobil, which is responsible for all issues related to seismic mapping and exploration at the blocks.
With the asborption of the TNK-BP and the many new Arctic fields, Rosneft is increasingly overstretched and in major need of assistance from foreign partners. In the Arctic, the company has concluded agreements also with Eni and Statoil.
“With the signing of these unprecedented agreements, the partnership between Rosneft and ExxonMobil is entering a new level”, Rosneft President Igor Sechin said at Wednesday’s signing ceremony in Moscow. From before, the two companies have fifteen years of cooperation at the Sakhalin-1 project.
http://barentsobserver.com/en/energy/2013/02/us-expansion-russian-arctic-14-02
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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