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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Petroleum Technology Research Center has concluded that empty wells in the Weyburn oil field, Saskatchewan, can hold an estimated 21 million tons of carbon dioxide. In an experiment to determine whether the greenhouse gas can safely be buried under land, researchers have been checking well vapours, groundwater and conducting seismic tests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the import into the EU of live poultry, poultry meat and products from Canada, following its bird flu outbreak.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THIEVES looking to cash in on the current high prices of industrial scrap non-ferrous metals have stolen more than CDN$2 million (US$1.49 million) worth of nickel and aluminium in Montreal Canada. Several thousand kilograms of nickel cathodes and roughly 3.6 tonnes of aluminium were carted off in separate night raids in what police have identified as “professional heists”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
LANDOWNERS in British Columbia (BC), Canada, are appealing against a court decision confirming the right of mining companies to exploit minerals under local land that they do not own. The case involved Western Industrial Clay Products, who staked a claim to clay under a couple’s ranch in Kamloops, BC, to make cat litter.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECORD number of cattle remain on farms across Canada because of the bans imposed on the country’s beef exports following last year’s BSE scare. Statistics Canada has reported that 14.7 million head of cattle existed in January 2004, 1.2 million (or 8.7 per cent) more than the same period last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the import into the EU of live poultry, poultry meat and products from Canada, following its bird flu outbreak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT will be several years before Canada’s trading partners admit Canadian live cattle, according to a report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The document – written after BSE was detected Alberta, but before its discovery in the United States – suggests that effective diplomacy will be needed to convince countries, rather than more scientific measures.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
APPROVAL for the CDN$8.5 billion Horizon oil sands project in Fort McMurray, Alberta, has been granted to Canadian Natural Resources, by both by Alberta’s energy regulator and Canada’s federal environmental assessment agency. The go ahead came with 17 conditions relating to mining operations, resource conservation and tailings management that must be met by the Calgary-based oil and gas producer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of countries have formed a network of excellence developing expertise in the deep underground storage of radioactive waste. Coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, participants include Belgium’s Hades Underground Research Facility in Mol; Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory of Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba; Switzerland’s Grimsel Test Site and Mont-Terri Underground Research Laboratory; Britain’s Geo-Environmental Research Centre, Cardiff; and the USA’s WIPP facility, New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

Canadian beverage manufacturers have decided to pull soft drinks from school vending machines, according to Refreshments Canada. The trade group announced that next September, water and 100% fruit juices will make up at least half of the beverage selections offered for sale in Canadian elementary and middle schools.…