The Moscow City Duma discussed the order of upgrade of waste treatment facilities of the oil refinery in Kapotnya during the sitting on October 15. At the beginning of the sitting Lyudmila Stebenkova, the chairperson of the Health Care and Health Protection Committee reminded the participants that most of the districts of the South-East of […]

According to a number of experts, the EcoPechora conference, which took place on October 10-11, became a real breakthrough in the dialogue between the environmentalists and oilmen. If before that their interaction consisted mostly in the demonstrative actions on one side and the demonstrative silence on the other side, no we can talk about real […]

The village of Nellim on the Lake Inari saw the traditional tripartite meeting of the Finnish environmentalists and the hydropower engineers of Russia and Norway, organized by the Center for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment of the Province of Lapland (Finland). In the course of the meeting the forecast of the hydrological situation in […]

Due to the initiative of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) the activists of which were collecting signatures for the petition to introduce in Russia the law on sea protection from the impact caused by the activities of oil-producing companies, the State Duma of the Russian Federation sill soon consider the draft law “On Seas Protection From […]

The works on the Trans-Siberian hydro power plant are to be suspended in the nearest future, novostienergetiki.ru report with reference to the official statement of EN+ company and World Wide Fund for Nature. The Russian office of WWF managed to sign an agreement with EN+ on carrying out the investigation on the Amur River with […]

A number of bus lines in Yekaterinburg are still using buses with the Euro-0 engines (40 horsepower) and Euro-1 engines (195 horsepower). Such cars are both economically unviable and very harmful for the environment. This was stated during the round-table discussion dedicated to the city transportation problems by the deputy head of the Yekaterinburg administration […]

Biogas is to be produced from whey and waste waters in the town of Vileyka in Belarus. This renewable energy project is being executed by the Vileyka branch of OAO Molodechna Milk Factory. The foundation of the plant is ready, the design specifications and estimates have already been developed, all the necessary equipment has been […]