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NUNAVUT BAN
BY MONICA DOBIE
A SMOKING ban has been imposed in all public places, including bars and restaurants in Nunavut and the neighbouring Northwest Territories in northern Canada. The bylaw will force people to smoke outside in freezing temperatures of up to -50 Celsius in the winter.…
WHO NO-TOBACCO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAUNCHING 2004’s No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organisation has released figures claiming that people with less education tend to consume more tobacco. It cited a study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, concluding 26 per cent of people with four or less years of schooling smoke, compared with a 17 per cent of those with nine or more years.…
NORWAY BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWAY has followed Ireland’s example and become the world’s second country to ban smoking in restaurants and bars nationwide. Claiming support from opinion polls, the Norwegian government has justified its ban by the need to protect bar and restaurant staff from passive smoking.…
HYDROGEN - ISO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Standardisation Organisation technical report has advised on reducing safety hazards in using hydrogen for home and office heating, electricity generation and transport. *Basic considerations for the safety of hydrogen systems -http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/commcentre/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=29145&ICS1=71&ICS2=20&ICS3=…
GAS FLARING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL Gas Venting and Flaring Reduction Voluntary Standard has been unveiled by the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Public-Private Partnership (GGFR), which includes oil-producing countries, oil companies and World Bank. It aims at stimulating oil industry associated gas production for international and domestic sale, cutting the 100 billion cubic metres vented and incinerated annually.…
AFRICA UNLEADED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE than half of all petrol sold in sub-Saharan Africa is now unleaded, says the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which wants leaded fuels phased-out in the region by 2006. Kenya has announced plans to switching to fully unleaded petrol by January 1 2006.…
SINGAPORE GUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SINGAPORE has lifted its notorious ban on chewing gum, approving the sale of 19 medicinal (including nicotine containing lines) and dental chewing gums in pharmacies, such as Wrigley’s Orbit. Customers must however submit their names and ID card numbers to pharmacists, who could be jailed up to two years without such documentation.…
BURKINA FASO - SUGAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has rejected Burkina Faso’s application to be given privileged access to the EU sugar market under the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement. Ministers ruled the country was not a net sugar exporter.…
UNILEVER FRIDGES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNILEVER has told an international conference on climate-change friendly refridgeration that it will from next year buy only ice-cream cabinets free of the environmentally damaging HFC coolant, using Hydrocarbon (HC) as its preferred alternative. Its businesses operate two million freezers worldwide.…
WTO ROUND PROGRESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STEADY progress is being made at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round agriculture talks, their chairman Tim Groser has told the WTO trade negotiations committee. All parties are moving towards ending food export subsidies and a compromise on future non-emergency food aid.…