Russia is terminating 12 licenses for coalmining at Spitsbergen, the Norwegian broadcaster NRK reports.
Russia now has only 21 licenses left, but Norwegian authorities does not see this as a signal of reduced Russian coalmining or activity.
- There is nothing indicating that the company Trust Arktikugol are reducing it's acitivty, Peter Brugmans tells the broadcaster.
Mr. Brugmans is department-director at the Norwegian JS_ERR_COUNT = 0;JS_ERR_ARR = [];JS_LOADED = false;function _gtErr(e,url,line){if (++JS_ERR_COUNT > 10) {return;}var i=new Image();var err='e='+e.substr(0,1500)+',url='+url.substr(0,400)+',line='+line+',count='+JS_ERR_COUNT;JS_ERR_ARR.push(err);i.src='/gen204?jserr='+encodeURIComponent(err);i.onload=function(){i.onload=null;};}window.onerror=_gtErr;Directorate of Mining.
The licenses involved gives the right to mining in a certain area, under the regulations of The mining-agreement of Spitsbergen. Norwegian authorities will also consider the laws on environment before they eventuelly issues a licene for mining.
