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Another strike called in Kazakh

Zhanaozen town

KAZAKHSTAN WORKERS at another company in the south- 10 years," Zhumaqaliev was quoted as saying.
western Kazakh town of Zhanaozen have Also on July 22, street cleaners at the
launched a strike, demanding a salary increase Tazalyq-S cleaning company told the news
amid a series of labour issues in the restive town, service that they joined other company
RFE/RL wrote on July 22. employees, drivers, and loaders, who began
More than 100 employees at the Kazpromtekh a strike four days earlier. They are demand-
company reportedly started the strike on July ing a salary increase and improved working
22. That made it the 11th company to be hit with conditions.
labour strife in recent days. Since the beginning of July, workers at three
Kazpromtekh provides transportation ser- companies linked to the oil industry in the town,
vices to Ozenmunaigaz oil company, one of the as well as workers at an the ambulance center
major oil operators in the Central Asian coun- in Zhanaozen, have had employers meet their
try's energy-rich west. demands following strikes.
One of the strikers at Kazpromtekh, Beknur The Kazakh authorities remain very sensitive
Zhumaqaliev, told RFE/RL that the company's to any dissent or protests in the volatile town. It
workers wanted their salaries to be increased by was there that in December 2011 police fatally
50%. shot at least 16 people while putting down pro-
"Our salaries have been the same for the last tests by oil workers. ™
ENERGY TRANSITION

Russia's Sakhalin Island eyes co-

operation with Japan on CCS

RUSSIA RUSSIA’S Far Eastern Island of Sakhalin is near- hydrogen as a fuel source. Some are also buying
ing a co-operation agreement with a Japanese emission-offsetting certificates, while others are
Russia is striving to firm on developing carbon capture and storage drawing up plans for CCS.
make the Sakhalin (CCS) technology, its regional governor Valery Depleted oil and gas fields can serve as ideal
region carbon neutral Limarenko told Reuters on July 21. storage locations for such emissions. The Sakha-
by as early as 2025. Russia is striving to make Sakhalin its first lin LNG plant is supplied with gas from the Pil-
carbon-neutral region by as early as 2025, hoping tun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye fields. As these
to develop strategies it can then apply to other fields move towards depletion, CO2 from Sakha-
areas of the country at a later stage. Sakhalin lin LNG and other industry on Sakhalin Island
hosts Russia’s first LNG plant, developed by Rus- could be injected into their reservoirs to boost
sia’s Gazprom, Royal Dutch Shell and Japanese the recovery of remaining reserves.
firms Mitsui and Mitsubishi. The consortium Sakhalin authorities want the region to gen-
has worked out an “ecological LNG” strategy erate 28% of its energy from wind, solar, geo-
to reduce its carbon footprint and supply car- thermal and small-scale hydroelectric plants
bon-neutral fuel, Limarenko said. by 2025. Much of this capacity is to be built on
There are a number of ways that LNG export- the Kuril Islands, partly claimed by Japan as its
ers around the world are looking to reduce territory.
emissions from their activities. Besides general Sakhalin also wants to roll out 10,000 elec-
efforts to cut planned and fugitive emissions, tric-powered vehicles and 1,000 charging sta-
some are looking to supply renewable energy to tions by 2025, as well as convert domestic boilers
their facilities, and others are considering using to run on gas. ™

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