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IMO COMPENSATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HUGE increase in international compensation for oil spill victims will be made available via a new International Maritime Organisation coordinated fund. National membership will be voluntary, but will probably apply in Europe, as the plan was an EU initiative.…
OIL SLICK - ESA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL imaging from the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite helped Swedish, German and Danish oil containment ships scoop up the bulk of an oil slick released from a sunken Chinese freighter that threatened the southern coast of Sweden this month.(June)…
CAMEROON TRUCKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending US$700,000 to Cameroon petroleum transporter Sodetran-Cam Sarl, to expand and upgrade its fuel transportation trucks. It plans to buy 10 additional tanker trailers to boost its work with Cameroon’s Mobil Oil Distribution Company.…
VIETNAM POWER PLANT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…
KYOTO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report says the developed world greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade. Based on government projections, it claims combined emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by 8 per cent from 2000 to 2010 (17 per cent over 1990 levels).…
G8 TANKER PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government at the recent G8 summit in France have committed their countries to reducing the environmental threat posed by oil tankers. A communiqué committed their governments to accelerate the introduction of a safety code for flag states, establish mandatory pilotage in narrow, restricted or congested waters, improve inspections and other measures.…
AFRICA OIL CONFERENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES to spread the wealth generated by the African oil industry amongst local populations have been debated at the 7th African Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference, in Luanda, Angola. Co-organiser the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) promoted ways of transforming the industry “from its present status as a virtual enclave in which foreign companies absorb most of the gross revenue.”…
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended for at least three months the preferential zero tariff on sugar imported into the European Union from Serbia & Montenegro. Brussels acted because of concerns at European anti-fraud office OLAF, that local rules of origin controls are too weak to prevent sugar being illicitly exported to Serbia & Montenegro and then re-exported into the EU.…
INTENSE SWEETENERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved a European Commission proposal to allow the use within the EU of two new intense sweeteners (sucralose and an aspartame-acesulfame salt) and reduce the use of the sweetener cyclamate.…
BRAZIL - COCUNUTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL has extended its safeguard duty regime against imports of shelled and shredded dried coconuts, imposing it on Malaysian exports. The south-east Asian country had previously been exempt, along with 87 other developing countries said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…