Ignalina (Lithuania)

Type: City

Name: Ignalina (Lithuania)

Latitude: 55.34

Longitude: 26.16

population: 6,422

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Report - Nuclear decommissioning assistance programmes in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia. - A7-0119/2013 - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Subject: Opinion on the legal basis of the Nuclear decommissioning assistance programmes in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia (COM(2011)0783 – C7Dear Madam Chair,By letter of 11 December 2012, you asked the Committee on Legal Affairs, pursuant ... [Published European Parliament - May 08 2013]

Entities: EURATOM, Lithuania, Ignalina (Lithuania)

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Brussels pushes Baltic states to improve energy efforts

The EU offered the Baltic states a ticking off for their failure to agree on shared energy projects on April 24, and pushed Vilnius to continue with moves to improve its energy security, as a delegation of officials visited Lithuania."Access to energy ... [Published Business New Europe - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Baltic States, Lithuania, Ignalina (Lithuania), Brussels

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Algirdas Butkevicius

Lithuanian PM: Visaginas NPP p...

VILNIUS - The current project of the Visaginas nuclear power plant (NPP), experts say, cannot be implemented because the electricity price there would be too high, PM Algirdas Butkevicius said yesterday.After a sitting of the Political Council, the prime ... [Published Baltic Times - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Visaginas (Lithuania), Algirdas Butkevicius, Ignalina (Lithuania), Hitachi Ltd, Vilnius

First reported Mar 20 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports

Formulating referendum questions

Now that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has decided to express the next referendum question in negative terms — “Do you agree that the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be halted and that it should not become operational?” — it ... [Published Taipei Times Online - Mar 20 2013]

Entities: Referendum, Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear Power, Construction

First reported Dec 14 2012 - Updated Dec 14 2012 - 1 reports

EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

EBRD Suspends Funding For Ignalina Decommissioning

14 Dec (NucNet): The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has suspended funding for construction of an interim spent fuel storage facility and supply of storage casks for defueling of Ignalina-1 and -2 in Lithuania, the European Commission ... [Published NucNet Global Nuclear News - Dec 14 2012]

Entities: EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction & Develop..., Ignalina (Lithuania), Lithuania, European Commission

Quotes

It is settled case law of the Court of Justice that "the choice of legal basis for a Community measure must rest on objective factors amenable to judicial review, which include in particular the aim and content of the measure" (1). The choice of an incorrect legal basis may therefore justify the annulment of the act at stake

Report - Nuclear decommissioning assistance programmes in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia. - A7- ... [Published European Parliament - May 08 2013]

...and Social Committee President Henri Malosse said, according to a press statement, during a jaunt to the now defunct Ignalina nuclear power plant. "However, if Europe is to play a role, if European integration is to make sense, it is precisely by addressing the strategic challenge of sharing energy resources. Member States will achieve nothing in the long term if they act alone."

Brussels pushes Baltic states to improve energy efforts [Published Business New Europe - Apr 25 2013]

"We cannot say anything different before we really decommission it" Butkevicius said

Lithuanian PM: Visaginas NPP p... [Published Baltic Times - Apr 24 2013]