Search Results for: Icelandic

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will fund with Euro 8.1 million a research project to identify the genes making people more prone to addictions of any kind. The GENADDICT Integrated Project links eight leading public and private research organisations and is coordinated by Professor Ian Kitchen, of the University of Surrey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GURANTEE issued to American drug company deCODE Genetics Inc by the Icelandic government regarding a US$200 million bond is being investigated by the European Free Trade Area Surveillance Authority because of concerns that the move may break European state aid rules.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
THE FOUR Scandinavian language-speaking countries, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, all pass with flying colours on Transparency International’s Corruption Index when considering their exposure to money laundering. Though the use criminal proceeds is not a serious issue in this friendly part of the world, their vicinity to countries in the former communist eastern bloc and the increasingly pervasive nature of international terrorism means that no one can afford to be caught sleeping on the post, especially not after 9/11.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority is threatening Iceland with legal action over its alleged failure to implement European Economic Area rules on the sale and production of farmed fish. It has given Reykjavik two months in which to explain how it will write directive 91/67/EEC, as amended in 1993, 1995 and 1998, into its national statutes.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A TECHNOLOGICALLY innovative development of geothermal energy in Iceland is expected to go ahead with the support of a planned loan of Euro 23.5 million from the European Investment Bank. The money would help extend the generating power of the City of Reykjavik’s existing Nesjavellir geothermal cogeneration plant by 30 MWe and 150 MWth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TECHNOLOGICALLY innovative development of geothermal energy in Iceland is expected to go ahead with the support of a planned loan of Euro 23.5 million from the European Investment Bank. The money would help extend the generating power of the City of Reykjavik’s existing Nesjavellir geothermal cogeneration plant by 30 MWe and 150 MWth.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
THE ICELAND parliament, the Althing, is struggling to pass a bill based on the EU electricity liberalisation directive, which tries to boost competition the sector. The government is set on passing it, but the bill is meeting a strong opposition in wide circles, claiming it is inappropriate for Iceland.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
AN HEP plant designed to power a new aluminium smelter, the first constructed by Alcoa Inc. in twenty years, is under preparation in eastern Iceland. The plant would produce 285,000 tonnes of aluminium a year. At the same time Alcoa is closing down two plants in the US and reducing production in a third.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
THE ICELAND parliament, the Althing, is struggling to pass a bill based on the EU electricity liberalisation directive, which tries to boost competition the sector. The government is set on passing it, but the bill is meeting a strong opposition in wide circles, claiming it is inappropriate for Iceland.…