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KEITH NUTHALL
SATELLITE recorded data of the Earth’s weather and hydrological flows is being promoted by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a potential boon for the renewable energy industry, with the information helping the optimum positioning of generation plants.

At a workshop at its Italian centre, in Frascati, ESA scientists met with utility companies to discuss how such information can best be exploited.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be ‘green-minded,’ in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments.…

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 PHILIP FINE

DEMOGRAPHICS are changing the contents of supermarket freezers in the US. ‘Ethnic’ frozen food sales reached US$2.2 billion in 2001, according to the American Frozen Food Institute. The biggest growth has been Mexican, which grew 20.6 percent to US$488 million, followed by Asian, which include Chinese, Thai and Indian, up 12.3 percent, totalling US$463 million.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE ‘LOOTING of civilisation’ in Baghdad, with its vivid images of wanton destruction and looting inflicted upon the Iraqi national museum, was all too familiar for those who have followed events in Afghanistan. But everyone must hope the parallels stop there, for the experience of those quietly seeking to recover Afghanistan’s glorious archaeological past does not bode well for the long-term restoration of Iraq’s treasures.…

Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have signalled that they are preparing to cave into Italian government blackmail tying its agreement to a proposed comprehensive tax package to the waiving of fines levied on Italian milk producers for exceeding their common agricultural policy quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN conservation group has teamed up with the European Space Agency to collate satellite data of water pollution, in a bid to influence national government policies on land use and urbanisation. The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia is concerned about environmental damage being caused at overdeveloped “hot spots,” especially on the coast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its concern that it has failed to force Naples’ municipal authority to put its city gas supply contract renewal out to open tender.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is planning to help Irish and Italian airports comply with new European baggage inspection regulations. It plans to lend up to Euro 150 million to Italian civil aviation authority ENAC to install security inspection equipment and modify baggage-handling systems at 37 Italian airports.…

Keith Nuthall
A CONSORTIUM led by Italian-Thai Development plc (ITD) and two Japanese contractors has been awarded the contract to build runways at Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Construction is due to be completed by April 2005. In a statement to the stock exchange of Thailand, ITD said that the consortium, IOT Joint Venture, would be signing the contract with the New Bangkok International Airport Co (NBIA).…