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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A SRI Lanka university is talking to foreign mining investors after its geologists discovered a dense iron ore deposit in the south of the island country. Peradeniya University claims that the deposit, in Wellawaya district, has a purity exceeding 90 per cent and is estimated to be about 90 million tonnes in size.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY, Sweden and Denmark must do more to prevent water run-off from their rivers and coasts adding excess nutrients to the western Baltic Sea, said an international research project into the deaths of marine wildlife in 2002. The Helsinki Commission – tasked with investigating the natural disaster – concluded higher levels of nutrients from agriculture, urban wastewater and air pollution poured into the sea after heavy rain and snow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN tunnelling company has developed a boring machine drawing on space technology to include a sophisticated sensor enabling operators to assess oncoming rock conditions whilst drilling continues. Herrenknecht AG, which drilled the Elbe tunnel, has been trialling its new sensor on a 9.8m-diameter TBM shield excavating the Pannerdensch Kanaal twin tunnel near Arnhem, the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A team from the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald have designed an experimental fuel cell that generates electricity when bacteria, in this case Escherichia coli (E. coli), feed on sugar. The resulting output is enough to power a medical ventilator or similar appliance.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE GERMAN plastic container caps producer Loeffler Kunststoffwerk has announced plans to open a new plant in Russia to create greater capacity for its major clients n the region, which include Proctor & Gamble. Loeffler Kunststoffwerk, a unit of US Seaquist, will open the new plant in Vladimir, just outside Moscow, in the late autumn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked Germany to suspend its system of charging consumers a deposit on (generally aluminium) metal cans, claiming that although it is designed to encourage recycling, it interferes with the right – enshrined in European law – guaranteeing the freedom of movement of goods around Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GRANT scheme funneling money to German citizens wanting to buy environment-friendly insulation made from as flax, hemp fibre and sheep’s wool, rather than conventional fossil materials has been approved by the European Commission. Its decision, made under European Union state aid regulatory powers will signal to other EU Member States that such a scheme would be approved by Brussels across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is asking the European Court of Justice to authorise daily-recurring fines against the German government, because it refuses to allow retail goods producers to reduce their VAT bill when issuing money-off vouchers. Germany insists that VAT is paid on their products’ full price, meaning manufacturers cannot recoup all owed sales taxes from consumers.…