Russian NGO’s
activity
in energy field
Activities:
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Collective petitions
Independent media
Contests (mostly for children & students)
Negotiations with companies
Flashmobs
Direct actions
Street demos
Current activity rating
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Anti-Nuclear
Anti-Hydro (against big dams)
Against gas & oil activity in Arctic
For wind & solar renewables
Anti-nuclear activity
Started in USSR after Chernobyl Disaster,
26 April 1986
Russia has tens of antinuclear NGOs:
• Greenpeace Russia
• Anti-nuclear program of Social Ecological
Union
• For Life
• Bellona
• Ecodefence
• and many others
Referendum in Kostroma region
Movement “ For Life” demanded referendum.
1996: magority of people voted against NPP
2000: state official claimed in the court:
“The results of the referendum should be
canceled, because the will of the people
contradicts the government decision”.
The court agreed with the government!
Nuclear power plants in Russia:
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Baltiiskaya
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X - cancelled
Lifecycle extension failure
• Rosatom was planning to extend lifecycle of
RBMK reactors.
• Rosatom failed due to the systematic
problem of the graphite moderator blocks
deformation.
• All Chernobyl’s type reactors will be
decomossioned. (11 reactors).
• Roatom plans to cancel new NPP projects in
Russia but only to replace stopped NPP.
Constructive aproach
• Development of regional energy
programs with alternatives to NPP
• Promoting renewables (wind,
small hydro, biofuel, solar)
• Gas generation as temporal
decision (as available resource )
Anti-Hydro
• Local communities
together with Russian
environmental
movement are against
the hydro mega
projects.
• Soviet HPP were more than three times
less efficient than world’s average.
• A flooded area in former USSR was 3 ½
times biger than world average per 1 kWh
(0,18 m2/kwh/year).
• More than 6000 small HPP were shut
down in 1960-s to hide the fact that their
energy is cheaper then large HPP
constructed by GULAG prisoners.
Flooded
building
Flooded temples
8 HPP on Volga River
Sturgeons are ill
and extinting
due to
redistribution of
water flow.
RusHydro want to rise the level
of Cheboksar reservoir
• The project led to flooding of 3 provinces
and city with a million people.
• It was rejected 30 years ago.
• RusHydro still wants to rise the level.
Corrupted government helps.
• People, environmentalists and even
Governors are opposing.
• The situation lasts for 30 years.
Constructive approach
• WWF Russia, experts and local
activists talked with EN+ energy
company and decided to develop
a method of comlex comparative
assessment of environment,
social and economic efficiency of
dams in Amur basin.
Oil and gas
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We are for:
Oil spills prevention
Collection and processing of
associated petroleum gas (sucsessfully)
We are against:
Dangerous routes of pipelines
(Baikal, Ukok – sucsessfully)
Driiling in Arctic shelf
Coal: collision
Most of the coal power plants located near
coal mines.
Miners trade unions in Russia are the
strongest.
Environmentalists are against coal but have
no success.
Russian coal has low sulfur content.
„I'd
put my money on the sun
and solar energy.
What a source of power!
I hope we don't have to wait 'till
oil and coal run out before we
tackle that.“
Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931
Renewables & energy saving
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Promotion of renewables & LEDs
School children contests
Training and public lectures
Development of Regional energy
programms
• Pilot projects
We are trying
and we’ll win!
Thank you for your attention!
Igor Shkradyuk
igorshkraduk@mail.ru
Biodiversity conservation center
Social Ecological Union
Moscow