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Australia - next Uranium exporter to Russia

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

June 20, 2008. Angarsk-Irkutsk-Moscow-St.Petersburg. Today representatives of the Baikal Ecological Wave, the Baikal Movement, Bellona, Greenpeace Russia, Ecodefense appealed to the Parliament of Australia with the demand not to ratify the treaty that will open way for the large-scale export of the Australian uranium to Russia.

Caper on the Black Sea coast

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:55:04 GMT

The Russian Federation — January, 29th, 2008 scientists and representatives of the public ecological organisations have addressed to the President, the Government, the General Public prosecutor of the Russian Federation, to the Governor of Krasnodar territory with the requirement to stop immediately the destruction of the unique natural complex of the «Bolshoi Utrish» Game Preserve located near the Anapa Resort in Krasnodarsky krai.

Kerch Oil Spill: Good Lesson for Russia and Ukraine

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

December, 5 2007. Moscow. Greenpeace today called on the Russian and Ukrainian governments to urge oil clean-up efforts on the coasts and seabed of Azov and Black seas polluted with fuel oil after a fierce storm in the Kerch Strait on November 11th wrecked seven ships, including an oil tanker. To avoid future ecological disasters Greenpeace suggested both countries to work out a joint oil spill prevention and response program.

20 Kilometers of Azov Sea Shore Still Polluted by Fuel Oil

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

November 26th, 2007. Greenpeace volunteers cleaned up part of the oil spill along the Azov Sea shore last weekend. More than 20 kilometers of the coastline here are still polluted with oil. However, the clean-up operation here yet has not even been started.

Officials Refused Greenpeace Help in Kerch Strait Oil Spill Clean-up

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

November 23, 2007. Krasnodar Region. “We don’t need volunteers!” the head of the crisis headquarters on Chushka Spit and Krasnodar Vice-governor Aleksander Ivanov said yesterday to Greenpeace representative Dmitry Artamonov.

NGOs Request Access to Chushka Spit From Federal Security Service

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

November 22, 2007. Moscow. Greenpeace Russia, WWF Russia and the Russian Bird Conservation Union today asked the Head of the Federal Security Service (FSS) Nikolai Patrushev to give their teams access to the Southern part of Chushka Spit to help in clean-up works. The access to the Spit was restricted Sunday by the Krasnodar Region FSS Department.

Environmental Disaster in the Kerch Strait. 4 hours ago

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:09:06 GMT

13 November, 2007. Greenpeace response team arrived Monday to the southern Russia to estimate the scale of the environmental disaster in the Kerch Strait after a fierce storm sank seven ships, including an oil tanker. According to local people, a 50km length of coastline appears to have been polluted with oil. Thousands of oil-slicked seabirds lay on the seashore unable to fly. Around 100 soldiers are deployed to remove the oil from the shore.

Kerch Strait – In the Epicenter of Environmental Disaster

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

November 12, 2007. The consequences of shipwrecks in the Azov and Black Seas that happened last weekend because of the strong storm, can surely be called now a local-scale environmental disaster. About 7 thousand tons of sulfur and 2 thousand tons of heavy oil from damaged and sunk ships ran out into the sea. Experts estimate that one fourth of all dumped heavy oil, which is about 300 tons, has fallen to the sea bottom.

Greenpeace highlights 50 years of nuclear disaster in Mayak, Russia

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Chelyabinsk, 28 September, 2007 – On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the world’s second largest radiation accident, at Mayak in the Southern Urals, Greenpeace Russia has released a special report about the ongoing impacts of the Mayak tragedy. On the anniversary itself, Greenpeace will join local people in a protest rally in the nearby city of Chelyabinsk, to call for the relocation of those still living in contaminated areas and an end to Russia’s plans to import and reprocess even more foreign nuclear waste at the Mayak site.

Russia is dangerous for the World Natural Heritage

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:19:14 GMT

June 25 2007. Today on the World Heritage Committee UNESCO session held in Christchurch, New Zealand, the difficult situation formed about World Heritage objects on the Russian territory was discussed.

Greenpeace isn’t agree with decision of state expertise to approve the Olympic constructing in Sochi.

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On April 18,2007. The Russian nature inspectorate declared yesterday about completing the state ecological expertise of the Federal Goal Program (FGP)”Development of Sochi city as a mountain-climate resort till 2014”. Its realization can destroy reserve nooks of the Sochi National Park and place in danger the Caucasus reserve unique territories, recognized by UNESCO the world natural heritage. Despite that, the program received positive conclusion of the expert commission: from the 19 members included in it only Greenpeace expert, the candidate of geographic science, Andrei Petrov, wasn’t agree with such antiecological conclusion.

Who Set Up Prince of Monaco?

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

17 August, 2007. Moscow. According to mass media, during the visit of the Prince of Monaco, Albert II, to the Irkutsk Region, he took part in a deer hunt organized especially for him in the Baikalo-Lensky Nature Preserve that is a part of the World Heritage site “Lake Baikal”.

Separated collection of waste in Saint-Petersburg is promised to be legalized in September by the officials

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

July 25, 2007. Saint-Petersburg. Today Greenpeace had received an answer on open letter which was sent to U. H. Lukmanov, the president of Housing committee. It follows from the letter that separated collection of waste in Saint-Petersburg is nevertheless going to be legalized.

Recycling plant would be possibly built in Bryansk

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:42:00 GMT

As www.recyclers.ru says the deputies of town council in Bryansk on a joint sitting of profile committees on Tuesday, 17 July, had accepted potential investors which are ready to put up money in building of a recycling plant. Three of six candidates have stayed, the final decision will be made on town council session in July. At the present moment preferences of deputies are on the side of Japanese Co “RD Japan Inc” project environmental safety of which causes some doubts.

Greenpeace sent forest expedition in Meschera

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:52:17 GMT

17 July, 2007. Nature of National park “Meschera” instead of textbooks, and Greenpeace staff, ecologists and teachers of Ryazan state university instead of school teachers. Students of six schools of the Ryazan region decided to dedicate a week of their vacation to…lessons. Since July 7 Greenpeace conducts in Meschera a special ecological expedition for participants of “Kids for Forest” project. Recently the first session ended. However, the camp will not be empty for a long time; new children will come here on Wednesday.

Greenpeace spotted another oil slick on Neva

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

July, 10 2007. Today Greenpeace activists noticed polluted water in Bolshaya Nevka on the space from Grenadersky to Kantemirovsky bridges. The train of strange pellicle, suspected to be oil products, laying for some hundred meters along the Vyborgskaya embankment.

Greenpeace Comments on Tragedy in Angarsk

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

An ecological camp was attacked near Angarsk, where construction of an international center for recycling radioactive waste is planned.

Greenpeace Calls to Ensure Environmental Safety of the Olympic Construction

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace insists on changing the plans for construction of the Olympic venues in the Sochi National Park. Today ecologists sent an appeal to the vice chairman of the RF Government A.D. Zhukov who is in charge of the implementation of the Federal Program for preparation of Sochi for hosting the 2014 Olympics. The ecologists demanded to exclude high conservation value areas from the construction plans.

The forest is cleaned, garbage was sent on recycling

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Russian Federation. June 18, 2007. Saint-Petersburg. Greenpeace’s action of cleaning natural territories has taken place on the last Sunday near Repino, on the coast of Gulf of Finland.

«Western Caucasus» - in the centre of attention of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

26 June 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand. The 31 World Heritage Committee (WHC) session that started on June 24, finally reached the moment when Russian World Heritage (WH) sites came under scrutiny of the Committee members. WH properties in Russia, as always, became a subject of complicated negotiations and extensive consultations both among the Committee and the NGOs present at the event including Greenpeace.