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GREEN AUTO INSURANCE
BY ALAN OSBORN
A DUTCH company has won a European Business Award for the Environment for developing a green car insurance policy that it claims will help the environment, prolong the life of cars and reduce insurance premiums by five to 10 per cent.…
HERBAL SUPPLEMENT
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Food and Drug Administration has moved to prevent a seller of dietary herbal products from marketing its products as recreational drugs. The FDA says it e-mailed Xoch Linnebank, a Dutch on-line seller of Yellow Jackets, warning it that promoting the pills as a "herbal ecstasy" is illegal.…
ILLEGAL PLANT TRADE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RICHES that can be made from the illegal ivory trade are well known, but what of illicit imports and exports of rare flowers. Shipping protected orchids to Europe, Japan and north America can make criminals a lot of money.…
FIGARO LAUNCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COORDINATING centre for European digital publishers of academic texts has been launched with a public blitz on the traditional publishing sector, accusing it of being lethargic and vulnerable to unscrupulous reviewer academics who may exploit their contents prior to publication.…
BY ALAN OSBORN
The more new buildings that go up, the more demand there is for sand and gravel for use as aggregate. In theory there’s an almost inexhaustible supply of it on the sea-bed. But each ton taken away leaves a hole under the sea that fills with water.…
SAND DREDGING
BY ALAN OSBORN
WE know that irresponsible sea-sand dredging can led to coastal erosion, threatening beaches and ecological balance and even the livelihoods of whole sea-side or fishing communities. Yet there is today an unprecedented demand for sand as a building material.…
NETHERLANDS STATE AID
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the Dutch government recover maritime transport aid it has paid out since 1996 to port and inland waterway towage operations, ruling that these payments broke EU state aid rules. Brussels approved subsidies from the Netherlands to towage operators, but had assumed that this money was for limited to ships working on the open seas.…
SINGLE SKY FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
CAN the European Union’s single skies plan become a reality inside 30 months? It is a topical subject, with the recent crash over Germany underlining the arguments in favour and against the project, which should lead to planes flying above 28,000 feet being guided and controlled by unified units of air traffic controllers, replacing the current piecemeal system of national flight monitoring and guidance.…
HEMP GRANT
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that by allowing hemp fibre crops to be harvested before its seeds are fully mature, (enabling the them to produce cannabis), the Netherlands government broke European Union subsidy rules, which are strict on the age of hemp that attracts Brussels subsidies.…
SHELL PLANT
BY MARK ROWE
THE ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group, Europe’s second largest oil company by sales, will decide next year on the location of what will be the world’s biggest natural gas-to-liquids plant. Malaysia, Argentina and Iran and are understood to be leading contenders for the US$1billion project, which will produce 75,000 barrels a day of kerosene, diesel and other fuels and is due to start operation in 2006.…