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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Ireland with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to abide by the EU environmental impact assessment directive regarding fish farms. Brussels says that Irish legislation does not allow assessments to take sufficient account of environmentally sensitive sites or of the cumulative effects of smaller individual projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL and judicial pressure is being applied to Belgium to ensure it complies with European legislation opposing “tacit approvals” of pollution. Belgian law allows some companies and public organisations to pollute if they apply for permission and receive no reply from regulators.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEW book has taken cruise lines to task on their labour, environmental and

commercial practices. Cruise Ship Blues by Newfoundland, Canada, writer Ross A Klein finds many employees in the industry working 16-17 hours a day, 7 days a

week for 10-12 months straight.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked EU ministers to approve a new protocol to the Paris Convention on international nuclear insurance, allowing a significant extension of cover via a tough hike in the third party liability of power stations.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE USA’s Alabama has passed a law to try and rid the state of the 15-20 million tyres in its dumps. The Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act will allow the state to collect US$1 (60p) in tax on the sale of replacement tyres, require bonds from tyre haulers and fine illegal dumpers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDEPENDENT World Bank inspection panel has criticised the development body for flouting its own guidelines regarding the Coal Sector Environmental and Social Mitigation Project in India, which led to the relocation of families from the Parej East mining region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Tunisia’s Tunisacier SA Euro 35 million to help modernise and expand an existing steel plant. It is currently producing galvanised steel sheets and the loan would also help transform it into a rolling and coated steel production centre, fully integrated with the upstream and downstream operations of the company’s parent, the Riva Group.…

BY MARK ROWE
AUSTRALIAN specialised technology firm Ausmelt has signed a US$9.5 million contract to provide its technology to modernise the Karabashmed copper smelter in Russia’s Urals region. Work on an engineering design for a new Ausmelt furnace and an electric settling furnace will begin immediately and the new plant is set to commence operations in the second half of 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW Italian presidency of the European Union has announced that a key policy priority, (until it leaves office in December), will be the systematic knitting of EU energy policies with environmental considerations. It has already staged a meeting of European energy and environment ministers on this issue, including a debate on whether energy liberalisation has harmed or helped the environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union-funded PANATEX project will hold a workshop in Copenhagen on September 18-19, bringing researchers from the textile, textile and pulp and paper industries to discuss solutions to their respective environmental problems, especially regarding water. *More information – http://www.patantex.net/…