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Gazprom opposes Rosneft and Exxon Russia LNG plans
2013-09-25 22:11:03| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The public spat over LNG illustrates tensions between Gazprom and Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, whose CEO Igor Sechin is a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and is spearheading a drive to make Rosneft a major player in gas as well.
Russia: Putin compares Greenpeace with Kenya attackers
2013-09-25 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has drawn parallels with Greenpeace activists apprehended for boarding an Arctic oil rig and the attacks by jihadist group al Shabaab on a Kenyan mall that left 67 people dead. In comments on Wednesday, he said the group were "obviously" not pirates despite Russian authorities saying yesterday that they planned to charge the activists with piracy. He also defended the detention, saying coastguard officers had no way of knowing who they were. Two members...
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Russia Urges IPCC Report to Include Geoengineering
2013-09-24 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Russia is pushing for this week's landmark U.N. climate science report to include support for controversial technologies to geoengineer the planet's climate, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. As climate scientists prepare to gather for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Stockholm to present the most authoritative state of climate science to date, it has emerged the Russian government is asking for "planet hacking" to be included in the report. The IPCC has not...
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Russia to charge Greenpeace activists with piracy over oil rig protest
2013-09-24 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Russia has opened a criminal case against Greenpeace activists who boarded an Arctic oil rig belonging to energy giant Gazprom, and says it plans to charge them all with piracy, regardless of their nationality. If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in a Russian prison. The Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunrise was apprehended last Thursday in what the environmental organisation says were international waters, near the Prirazlomnaya rig in the Pechora Sea. Russian coastguards stormed the boat after...
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Greenpeace Activists Face Possible Piracy Charges in Russia
2013-09-24 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Russia announced on Tuesday that it had opened a piracy investigation against the crew of a Greenpeace ship after its activists scaled an offshore oil platform in the Arctic last week. The step signaled that the authorities intended to act decisively to thwart more protests against Russia's ambitious plans to expand energy exploration in the region. The Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, was seized by Russian border guards in international waters in the Pechora Sea on Thursday, a day after several...
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