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MALAWI MINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has approved the lending of Euro 300,000 to help finance a Euro 1.8 million feasibility study into the viability of extracting strontianite ore at Kangankunde, in Malawi, southern Africa, and then processing it into marketable strontium carbonate.…
SASKATCHEWAN RETAIL
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SASKATCHEWAN provincial government in Canada has recently passed a restrictive act that prohibits the advertising and displaying of tobacco products in retail outlets where people under the age of eighteen are allowed on the premises.
Shopkeepers are forced to hide cigarettes from patrons by enclosing them in non- transparent cabinets, behind curtains or blinds or selling them from under the counter.…
HEALTH REPORT
BY PHILIP FINE
YES, whole oat products and foods containing psyllium will lower cholesterol levels and reduce heart disease, says the American Council on Science and Health. In a new booklet that takes most of the health claims for functional foods to task, they also agree that soy foods and foods made with soy protein have shown the same health benefits.…
PORK BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’S Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved a European Commission plan to ban the export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos from the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, except districts east of the Rhine.…
SRI LANKA POWER
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
SRI Lankan legislators are considering proposals to create a powerful national electricity regulator, which would combine the functions of the Ceylon Electricity Board and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. This new Power Supply Committee would have an expanded remit, being tasked with ensuring the smooth operation of electricity transmission in a country where cuts in service are common.…
POLLUTION CASES
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is piling political pressure onto industries, especially fossil fuel electricity generators, which pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to force them to clean up their processes, adding costs to their bottom line.
In a move that will only serve to make CHP and renewable plants more competitive by comparison, the Commission is preparing a raft of legal cases against eight European Union Member States, to force them to monitor and restrict their production of key greenhouse pollutants.…
SAFE SAW
BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NEW “safe saw” hits the market in April, which could find favour with plant hire companies keen to prevent accidents involving their ‘amateur’ customers.
The brainchild of Arbortech Industries Ltd, in Western Australia, the blades of the Australian KS150 Kango Saw cut with an orbital action slicing through masonry, wood and tough composite materials but not breaking the skin if they accidentally hit flesh.…
IMO REFORMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that deepening concern about terrorism following the September 11 attacks has led to tighter security in the civil aviation industry, but there have also been important implications for the shipping sector. Keith Nuthall reports.…
WASTE SHIPMENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulatory authorities in the European Union have the power to decide whether the cross-border transport of waste to infill a disused mine is, in effect, underground landfilling, and so should be subject to tight EU rules regulating such shipments.…
VEGETABLE OIL
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN customs officers have been urged to take action against a fraud being carried out by importers of refined vegetable oil, who are declaring it as unrefined, to avail themselves of the lower duties that apply for this product.…