Greenland plans to reject rare-earth mining permit
The project’s owner believes it should be exempt from the law the rejection was based on
The project’s owner believes it should be exempt from the law the rejection was based on
As many as 1,200 could be idled by October the mine is not allowed to exceed its annual production limit
A South Korean shipyard has canceled orders for the first of three LNG carriers after Sovcomflot failed to pay due to EU sanctions.
Ironbark Zinc already has the customers it needs for its Citronen mining project. That may turn out to have been the easiest part
The Sámi feel that allowing mining on their land is neither green nor pleasant
Making miners pay clean-up costs up front prevents them from hiding behind bankruptcy
Actually, a Soyuz rocket was supposed to put 36 satellites of “OneWeb” into orbit next Saturday. Shortly before the planned launch, Roscosmos imposes conditions that are almost impossible to meet.
The technology of manufacturing containers from new materials is one of the strategic directions of Omsk University. These are to replace steel fuel drums.
The country’s ruling Social Democrats appear ready to approve more mines and spend less time doing it
But the two options its owner has been given are equally likely to result in failure
Conservation groups eye a potential precedent that can be used to halt oil and gas drilling elsewhere
Cinia and telecom company Far North Digital announced joint efforts to build a fiber optic cable system connecting Europe and Asia.
Petrobras’ PMP environmental project recorded 20 percent more Magellanic penguins on Brazilian beaches this year compared to 2020.
Robert Johansen has started a microbrewery in Longyearbyen to produce a real Svalbard beer. For the time being, an old Norwegian law from 1928 stood in the way.
Global warming and rising temperatures in the Arctic are causing permafrost to thaw, causing major problems for cities north of the Arctic Circle.
There’s a lot of activity in the Murmansk area. Now Rostelecom announces that construction of a new data center will begin in Murmansk early next year.
UK oil company Harbour Energy said it was considering cashing in an option to exit the Falkland Islands project and would leave Falkland.
Coal production on Svalbard will cease in 2023. Gruve 7 is the last Norwegian state-owned coal company that still produces coal.
At the “Safety Arctic 2021” conference in Murmansk, Russian proposed plans for its development of safety and economic growth along the Northern Sea Route. PolarJournal attended the meeting and talked to experts.
The main function of JSC is the production of fiber optic cables for the project of construction of the trans-Arctic communication line from Murmansk to Vladivostok.
The U.S., China, Japan and Russia are among the countries planning to conduct research on fishing in the Arctic Ocean to establish international rules.
A total of four floating nuclear power plants are to be built and used for the large-scale mining of raw materials in the middle of Chukotka.
The processing of scrap means the cleaning of the Arctic territory, which is also a priority of the national strategy for the development of the Russian Arctic zone.
A historic agreement to prevent unregulated deep-sea fishing in the central Arctic Ocean entered into force on June 26, 2021.