AARHUS CONVENTION
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog has started its first investigations into whether governments are abiding by the international Aarhus Convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination, with one probe focusing on nuclear waste. This convention compliance committee can rule on breaches, telling governments they need to release information or consult more widely on proposals. One of the first five inquiries concerns Kazakhstan's National Atomic Company, which allegedly failed to release enough information on the economic ...
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