Issues affecting circumpolar nations
The company that recently made international headlines for causing environmental disasters on the Taimyr Peninsula by spilling 20,000 tons of
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Russia’s Nornickel says it can supply enough battery packs to reduce global CO2 emissions by 50-100 million tonnes over the
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With the closure comes a 33% cut in emissions from the infamous factory in the Russian, Norwegian borderland. Just one
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A gradual halt in production is likely to take place before Nornickel fully closes its smelter in the Russian border
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The toxic smoke that for decades has embraced the borderlands between Russia and Norway might soon vanish. It will help
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Greenland’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Labour has granted British multinational Anglo American a series of licences in western Greenland.
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The Canadian government is investing millions in a Northwest Territories-based research project that has the potential to make some mining
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“It is Russia’s responsibility to reduce the emission,” says Ola Elvestuen, Norway’s Minister of Climate and the Environment. Last Friday,
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The resources of the Zhdanovskoye field remain huge in Northwestern Russia, but mining company Kola MMC needs to go increasingly
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Sulfur-rich, but nickel-poor concentrate will be separated out and sent to other consumers, while only the nickel-rich concentrate will be
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Murmansk, the largest city in the entire Arctic, is having a makeover. At the restaurant on the top floor of
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Nornickel eyes sharp increase in demand for nickel and copper as tens of millions of electric cars hit the roads
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The Finnish government announced on Wednesday it does not plan to bail out the beleaguered state-owned mining company Talvivaara. Economic
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A total of 750,000 cubic metres – the equivalent of 750 million litres – of waste water will be discharged
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Prosecutors call for ten-month suspended sentence and fine of 13 million euros for four bosses in power during series of
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