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BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S Lomiko Metals Inc. has launched the latest campaign to explore southwestern Quebec’s rich natural graphite reserves with its January 5th acquisition of the Quatre Milles graphite property.

Vancouver-based Lomiko purchased the property, located 175 km northwest of Quebec’s capital, Montreal, from fellow Canadian miners Zimtu Capital Corp.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE the thought of bundling up in big knit sweater to brave the cold is how knitwear is usually marketed around the world, over in Canada – where winters are trite with snowstorms, and temperatures drop well below zero degrees Celsius – wearing a wool jumper in a blizzard to clean 10 centimetres of snow and ice off your car is not exactly practical.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

THERE is no single secret to creating the best soy sauce in the world, according to the head of the Japanese company that first produced the seasoning as far back as the 17th century. Rather, the secret is a combination of three things, Yuzaburo Mogi, honorary CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Kikkoman Corp.,…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed it is scrapping sugar production quotas across the European Union (EU) in 2015 when proposing a comprehensive reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There have been calls from some member states and MEPs for the quota regime to be renewed, but the Commission has stuck to its guns and will continue with abolition.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

A KEY cosmetics ingredient has secured a clean bill of health in Canada despite a 14-month review over environmental health concerns. The country’s environment ministry concluded that Siloxane D5, which helps blends and formulate cosmetics, is safe and its use should be unrestricted.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE DIRECTOR for the United Steelworkers Union (USU) in Ontario and Atlantic Canada has welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada to reject a constitutional appeal by US Steel against the Canadian government in a row about a steel plant takeover.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

AN INDIAN consortium led by Steel Authority India Ltd (SAIL) has won a bid for mining rights to exploit major iron ore deposits in Afghanistan, but experts in India caution that exploitation and processing progress could be slow and risky.…

BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS

FOR many environmentalists – and indeed many others who wonder just where our energy is going to come from in future decades – the aviation industry can seem to embody everything that is wasteful about our current fossil-fuel dependent world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT seems such an obvious idea – it is surprising that it has not been undertaken before: bringing the air industry’s great and good together to thrash out how improvements to air navigation should be made in a comprehensive but flexible plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S air traffic control regulators have been asked to development their systems in a more comprehensive, controlled and integrated manner, using ‘block upgrade’ models created by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

At a conference staged at ICAO’s Montreal, Canada, headquarters, its secretary general Raymond Benjamin said predicted civil aviation traffic growth would "strain…a system already stretched to its limits."…