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INSULATION GRANTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GRANT scheme funnelling money to German citizens wanting to buy environment-friendly insulation made from sheep’s wool, (as well as flax, hemp fibre), rather than conventional fossil materials has been approved by the European Commission. Its decision, made under European Union state aid regulatory powers will send a signal to other EU Member States that such schemes would be approved by Brussels across Europe.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…
E COLI
KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have harnessed electricity from the aggressive bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that generated ten times more electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.…
E COLI POWER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.…
GERMANY TOBACCO ROLLS
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Germany with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its taxing of rolls of tobacco – inserted by smokers into separately-sold paper tubes with filters – at a lower rate than for standard cigarettes.…
E COLI POWER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.…
INDIA ALUMINIUM SMELTER
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S largest zinc and lead producer Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) is planning to increase the annual capacity of its smelter in Chanderiya, Rajasthan, by 100,000 tonnes, up from its existing 70,000 tonnes per annum production.
Industry sources have been quoted in the Indian press saying that HZL has already raised US$75 million from overseas markets to finance the expansion, with the remainder being secured from Indian banks and lenders.…
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)…
OXO CHEMICALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many paints, varnishes and plasticisers – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…
OXO CHEMICALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many solvents – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…