Dikson

Moscow supports Vostok Coal’s expansion into protected Arctic tundra

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:52
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Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula, but still

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 13:27 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 13:32
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signs the decree that is to turn the remote Arctic settlement of Dikson, in the

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 10:53 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 11:02
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The town of Dikson and the surrounding Taymyr Peninsula, in Russia’s central Arctic, has the most rapid temperature increase in

Company VostokCoal has backing from the highest political level for its extraction and export of 30 million tons of coal

More than ten million tons of coal per year is to be floated out to the markets from Dikson, the

Several shiploads of mining equipment are sent from Murmansk to the Arctic outpost of Dikson. It is the company Vostokugol,