RUSSIA – SHIPS
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is consulting on the environmental, health-related and social impacts of a draft master plan for decommissioning 121 nuclear-powered submarines and ships off northwest Russia. The EBRD has been staging meetings in Moscow, Murmansk and Severodvinsk. Consultation lasts until September, after which the bank will write a final plan. The master plan has so far been financed by a Euro 150 million budget held by the European Union-led Northern Dimension Environmental ...
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