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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DESPITE having set a clear goal of ensuring 20% of the European Union’s (EU) energy consumption is drawn from green sources, such as biogas and biofuels, more money and resources must be wheeled into action. That is the claim of the European Commission, in a long-awaited policy paper from its energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, assessing the EU’s renewable energy directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR cobalt-copper deposit in Russia being eyed by an Isle of Man based company, which could soon be part-owned by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD). The bank has released plans for an equity investment of US$21 million in the Isle of Man-registered Imperial Mining Holding Limited, which aims to explore base metal and precious metal resources in Russia and Mongolia.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, KEITH NUTHALL and MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN Union (EU) governments are facing a political crossroads on a key question whose answer will have an important impact on the EU knitwear sector – both manufacturers and retail. That is the issue of rules of origin and whether there should be an EU-wide law that says clothing and accessories (plus a wide range of other manufactured goods) should be sold with labels saying which country they are made in, if they are imported from outside the EU.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE GLOBAL fashion and textile market has increasingly been influenced by green marketing buzzwords such as ‘organic’, ‘fair trade’ and ‘sustainable’, with the market for ethical and environmentally-friendly fashion growing slowly despite many challenges.

Assessing the size of this sub-sector is a tricky business, given there is no international standard about what is green and what is not green.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADIAN scientists have produced an adaptable high-grade nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) using a novel environment-friendly extraction process, which can be scaled-up for industrial applications. The country’s National Research Council’s (NRC) Biotechnology Research Institute, in Montréal, sought a new method of separating this nanomaterial from standard cellulose.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CANADIAN-owned Greek mining company will have to pay EUR15.3 million, plus interest, to the Greek government, after the European Commission decided it had been originally privatised on the cheap. Brussels has ruled that Ellinikos Xrysos paid too little when it bought gold, copper, zinc, lead and silver mines in the Cassandra area, Chalkidiki region, northern Greece.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

EUROPE: Diversifying university income is touch task – EUA

David Haworth

The rise in Europe’s student population combined with public funding cuts across the continent are producing an unprecedented crisis which can only be met by much greater diversifying of income sources, a conference of more than 100 experts heard in Brussels this week.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, and EUGENE VOROTNIKOV

A PROPOSED joint venture under discussion between Japan’s Toshiba Corporation and Russia’s Techsnabexport (TENEX) is expected to focus supplying low enriched uranium, not only to Japan but to third-party markets, Fuel Cycle Week has been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has fast-tracked regulatory approval of UK-based Ineos’ planned takeover of a polystyrene and expanded polystyrene joint venture operated with Canada’s Nova since 2005. The business has 11 manufacturing plants in six countries: the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Germany, Canada and the USA.…