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How is the growing demand for minerals affecting northeastern Canada and the climate?

Julien Gignac, CBC News @juliengignac
Posted: Friday, February 11, 2022 at 14:51
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Inside electric car batteries is nickel. The mineral, which is found in the Yukon, may not have the same value

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Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Russian Indigenous groups call on Elon Musk to boycott company behind Arctic environmental disasters

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 7, 2020 at 11:10
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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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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Mining boost in Russian central Arctic to feed electric vehicle market

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 12:03
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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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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Nickel plant in northwest Russia shutting down its first furnace

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 10:32
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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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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Aging nickel plant in northwest Russia due to close in late 2020

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 13:47
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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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General Russia Society Society (Russia) 

Would closing a nickel plant spell doom for the town of Nikel, Arctic Russia?

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 09:55 — Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 10:00
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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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Business Business (Denmark/Greenland) Denmark/Greenland General 

Greenland issues new exploration, prospecting licences to Anglo American

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 10:00
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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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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada announces $2M for research into carbon neutral mining in the Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 09:33 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 16:12
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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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Environment Environment (Norway) General News Norway 

Norway to press Russia for action on Arctic smelter pollution

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 11:07 — Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2019 at 15:39
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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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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Russian miners dig deeper into vast Kola nickel reserve

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 31, 2018 at 11:59
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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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Environment Environment (Russia) General News Russia 

New Finnish technology to slash nickel mining pollution in northwestern Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 20, 2018 at 15:08 — Last Updated: Monday, August 20, 2018 at 15:21
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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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Blog Environment Environment (Russia) General News Russia 

Blog – Monchegorsk, Russia: a mining town with green aspirations

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 09:19
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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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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

How green are the batteries? Electric car revolution boosts business for big Arctic air polluter

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 at 17:43
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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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Business Business (Finland) Finland General 

Finland says no bailout for state-owned, troubled Talvivaara mine

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 14:07 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 14:14
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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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Business Business (Finland) Finland General Special Features 

Finland mine discharges 750M litres of waste water

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 21, 2015 at 15:22 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:37
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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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