Newsletter Russia's Shadow Play
Photos of heavy lift vessel Ya Qing Hai Yang and renamed as Ocean 28. (Source: HNN)
Dear reader, We are following a play for the gallery as it unfolds. In it, Russia has initiated a race against sanctions and winter ice to complete gas projects in the Arctic. The quota crisis has still not been solved, and this week's newsletter also provides you with climate news and much more.
We start in Canada and the United States, where the parties will undertake negotiations on the maritime boundary in the Beaufort Sea, including their overlapping continental shelf claims in the central Arctic Ocean.
Canada also met with the Nordics in the first strategic dialogue meeting.
Defense
And the Norwegian government is to give the Home Guard an additional NOK 277 million in 2025. (Norwegian only)
The fight against sanctions
Our investigative journalist Malte Humpert is following the development and can now reveal that the Chinese ships are carrying a massive power plant for a Russian gas project.
With only weeks left before winter sea ice makes the route impassible, the delivery is a race against time and against Western sanctions.
And the upcoming EU transshipment ban for Russia's LNG may already have an unintended consequence: more imports of liquefied natural gas into the EU.
The quota crisis
The recommended quota for mackerel decreases by 22 percent, while there is a slight increase for the Norwegian spring-spawning herring. (Norwegian only)
"The government wants to make it easier for coastal fisheries. They don't even have go to sea. The paycheck can now be picked up at the nearest social security office.
Industry and climate
It is well known that the Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average, but recent research now shows that this is not a permanent ratio and that it is likely due to a temporary anomaly.
The LNS-owned mining company Greenland Ruby is bankrupt.
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Best regards,
Editor-in-Chief Trine Jonassen