News about ecology
Yachting Championship on Lake Balkhash
Yacht Racing World Championship will bring more than 60 boats to Balkhash, Kazakhstan.
24 March 2014
NCOC and Agip to dispute Kashagan fine
NCOC and Agip KCO intend to dispute the $737 million damage compensation for the break down at the Kashagan oil-field in court.
22 March 2014
Kashagan operator fined $737 million for flaring
Kazakhstan ecologists are demanding that the Kashagan field operator pays a fine of $737 million to compensate the environmental damage.
21 March 2014
We need to pull together to save oceans: Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned royalty, corporate kings and environmental warriors that governments won't save the seas without "significant impetus" from every sphere of society.
26 February 2014
Killer whales die in rare New Zealand mass stranding
A pod of nine killer whales died Wednesday in a rare mass stranding on the New Zealand coast, in a loss conservationists said was a major blow to the local orca population.
12 February 2014
Australia approves plan to dump dredge spoil in Barrier Reef
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on Friday approved the dumping of up to three million cubic metres of dredge waste in park waters in a move blasted by environmentalists.
31 January 2014
Aktobe agglomeration to max out at 1.3 million citizens
The urban agglomeration of Aktobe in western Kazakhstan can allow no more than 1.3 million people.
28 January 2014
Agricultural innovations to increase dairy and meat export: Nazarbayev
President Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke in support of farming and introduction of agricultural innovations in his State-of-the-Union Address.
20 January 2014
Kashagan consortium to face emissions penalty
The international consortium developing in the giant Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan will be subject to emissions penalties.
17 January 2014
Israel, Jordan, Palestinians to sign Red Sea-Dead Sea deal
Representatives of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians will on Monday sign a "historic" agreement to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea, an Israeli minister said.
09 December 2013
In Borneo jungle, natives stand up against Malaysian dams
With a grimace on his sun-bronzed face, Borneo tribal chieftain Lenjau Tusau glares down a dirt road that vanishes into a rainforest mist, on alert for what he views as a mortal enemy.
01 December 2013
Kazakhstan presses Russia to follow its laws at Baikonur
In particular, Kazakhstan wants to cover the cosmodrome’s territory with its Ecological Code.
30 October 2013
NCOC fined $10 thousand for dead seagulls
North Caspian Operating Company, the operator of Kashagan oilfield, located in Kazakhstan's sector of the Caspian Sea shelf, was fined $10 thousand for harming the environment.
04 September 2013
Researcher calles to subsidize energy effecient housing in Kazakhstan
Aleksnader Nizovkin has called the Kazakhstan Government to focus on construction of environmentally-friendly buildings with independent energy and heating supply systems.
19 August 2013
Astana airport fined for leaking kerosene into Yessil river
Astana international airport was fined over 13 million tenge ($87 thousand).
31 July 2013
Pavlodar to get chemical waste dump
The chemical wastes dumpsite will open in Pavlodar.
30 July 2013
Heptyl won't reach villages in Kyzylorda in big quantities: Mussabayev
The hazardous substances spilled because of the Proton-M crash at Baikonur cannot reach villages in Kyzylorda oblast in big quantities.
04 July 2013
Kazakhstan and U.S. agree to cooperate in reduction of emissions
A memorandum of understanding on cooperation in expansion of capacities for development of an emissions reduction strategy has been signed between Kazakhstan Ministry of Environmental protection and the U.S. Government.
27 June 2013
Kazakhstan mulls postponing penalties for greenhouse gas emissions
Kazakhstan Environmental Protection Ministry is suggesting to postpone and lower the fines for exceeding greenhouse gas emission quotas.
12 June 2013
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