Andrey Melnichenko, owner of EuroChem’s mining and metallurgy subsidiary Kovdorskiy GOK, is sanctioned by the European Union in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Dmitry Bosov intended to extract several hundred million tons of coal from the most vulnerable Arctic tundra lands and build a huge LNG terminal on the coast of the Barents Sea.
The authors of a new report said that there has hitherto been little research on the environmental risks associated with mining in the Arctic as well as measures that could mitigate those risks.
