In a 121 to 71 vote on Thursday the Parliament has given its approval to construct one new commercial nuclear power reactor in either Simo or Pyhäjoki in Northern Finland.
The city council of Murmansk in not pleased with the city mayor’s work. At a meeting yesterday, 22 of 26 council members voted for calling the mayor’s work “unsatisfactory”.
Norway’s Statoil takes a positive view of the new agreement reached on Tuesday between Norway and Russia on the delimitation line in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
Norway and Russia agree to establish a borderzone. However, the negotiations are not yet finished. Therefore the signing of a borderzone treaty is delayed.
The closed military city of Severodvinsk is to develop by means of industrial diversification and the establishment of small businesses, the city’s new development plan highlights.
A training exercise on Thursday with the Finnish air force F-16 fighter jets in northern Finland, revealed the damaging effects of volcanic ash on jet engines. Investigation of the engines showed melted ash inside the engines.
