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BY MONICA DOBIE
AIR Canada has won a court battle giving it preferential use of all 14 covered gates in Toronto Pearson International Airport’s new terminal. The airline complained at Ontario Superior Court that Greater Toronto Airports Authority reneged on a commitment regarding these gates, by forcing it to share claims to eight with Calgary-based WestJet.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CONSORTIUM of seven major power companies is to apply for a license to build a new commercial power plant in the United States. EDF International North America, a subsidiary of Électricité de France, and the Westinghouse Electric Company, a BNFL subsidiary, are participating.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PARIS-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says more efforts must be undertaken to decouple energy consumption and economic growth. Although its report ‘Oil Crises and Climate Challenges’ found that since the 1970’s wealth has increased much faster than energy use, it found 1970’s oil crisis sparked more effective energy conservation measures and greenhouse gas emission reductions than recent Kyoto Protocol linked policies.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A WORKSHOP staged by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on the vexed question of improving international market access for African cotton has agreed a checklist of priorities for development aid targeted at this goal. These included commodity price risk management strategies, export subsidisation and diversification into local clothing manufacture, along with cotton production improvements and promoting liberalisation in the sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a proposed regulation tightening and harmonising EU food and animal feed controls. As it informally agreed amendments in advance with EU ministers, the law is now expected to be rubber-stamped. One change insists that national governments erect “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” sanctions to breaches of these controls and another says relevant information held by food authorities must be publicised quickly, except data “covered by professional secrecy”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about biocontamination of food processing and other industries, have sparked the development of an International Organisation for Standardisation (IOS) management blueprint on checks and reforms. *ISO 14698-1:2003 and ISO 14698-2:2003 – contact sales@iso.org…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of millions of tonnes of uranium mining waste being swept by a landslide into a populous central Asian river basin has prompted the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to redouble its efforts to prevent such a tragedy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INITIAL results from the world’s largest ever study into whether mobile phone use causes cancer suggest that the technology is safe. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) says that research carried out in Denmark, forming part of the global INTERPHONE study, has concluded: “Use of a cell phone for 10 years or more did not increase acoustic neuroma risk over that of short term users.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MASS vaccination campaign against bird flu might result from the ongoing outbreak in Asia, with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) moving away from a pro-culling policy. Following meetings with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Office International des Épizooties on animal health the FAO said that a targeted vaccination campaign in heavily affected countries maybe required.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been awarded official observer status at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation.…