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MOZAMBIQUE PIPELINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, of the World Bank, is providing investment guarantees worth US$72 million to South Africa’s Sasol for developing natural gas fields in Mozambique, including building a central processing facility and an 865 km cross-border gas pipeline.…
AFRICAN UNLADED PETROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The UN Environment Programme says that within five years most African countries will be close to phasing out leaded petrol. Egypt, Libya, Mauritius and Sudan – are already lead-free, to be joined this year by Morocco, Reunion and Tunisia.…
AARHUS CONVENTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations member countries have agreed to strengthen the Aarhus convention on releasing environmental information, increasing the duty of oil refineries to declare information about 86 pollutants, (including greenhouse gases, acid rain pollutants, heavy metals and carcinogens), in a public pollutant release and transfer registers.…
LUKOIL - KAZAKHSTAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Financial Corporation has persuaded a band of top commercial banks to join it in investing in Russian oil giant Lukoil, so it can exploit the Karachaganak oil, gas, and condensate field. The banks involved are ABN-AMRO Bank, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank Aktiengesellschaft, Crédit Lyonnais, ING Bank, Natexis Banques Populaires, RZB-Austria, SG Investment Banking, and WestLB.…
VODKA WINDSCREEN CLEANER
BY MARK ROWE AND KEITH NUTHALL
A RUSSIAN entrepreneur, Oleg Udolin, is making a tidy living out of making windscreen-cleaning fluid out from confiscated contraband vodka. In a neat reversal of the traditional Russian penchant for drinking anti-freeze, the Moscow region man’s company Spiritprompererabotka has been extracting ethyl alcohol under licence from bottles of vodka confiscated by Russia’s police and customs forces.…
AFRICA ANIMAL HEALTH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of veterinary services from all African countries have agreed that better monitoring of livestock movements, including the identification of animals, is required to stem the flow of disease amongst the continent’s farms. The Conference of the Regional Commission for Africa of the Organisation International des Épizooties agreed the steps would promote trade and local meat supplies.…
THAILAND BROILER
BY MARK ROWE
THE THAI broiler chicken processing industry is to cut chick production by 15 per cent to respond to falling poultry prices in both the domestic and international markets. The Thai poultry industry has suffered 20 per cent price slumps for 10 consecutive months, with major causes including global oversupply and the discovery by the EU of banned chemicals in Thai exports last year.…
RUSSIA V USA
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has been warned that it faces retaliatory trade measures if it does not remove import barriers on meat from the USA. Robert Zoellick, the United States Trade Representative, told the US Senate Finance Committee that he would not shrink from taking such steps in order to put pressure on Russia to drop the restrictions.…
LIVE ANIMAL EXPORT REFUNDS
BY ALAN OSBORN
A SIGNIFICANT reduction of the number of cases for which an export refund can be granted for the trade in live animals has been announced by the European Commission. Brussels says it is acting to take account of animal welfare concerns.…
INDIA V EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has initiated formal talks – the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation – over import restrictions imposed by the Indian government on a range of products, including live swine, turkeys and the gallus domesticus chicken breed, cattle guts used for casings and bovine semen.…