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GM CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, with Argentina, Canada and Egypt have decided to challenge at the WTO the EU’s five-year de facto moratorium on imports of biotech foods and crops. EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Brussels would fight the case, maintaining that “the EU’s regulatory system for GMO’s authorisation is in line with WTO rules.”…
SAWTOOTH - CANADA
BY MONICA DOBIE
CALGARY-based Sawtooth International Resources Inc. has announced that it has increased its oil production from 238 barrels per day in 2002 to 325 barrels per day effective April of this year. This is a jump of 36 per cent in total production.…
MACKENZIE DELTA
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN aboriginal groups and other oil companies are imminent in striking a deal with other oil firms on the CDN$4 billion Mackenzie Delta pipeline project according to the federal Minister of Indian Affairs Robert Nault. “I believe we are within days of arriving at an agreement between the Aboriginal Pipeline Group and the producers,” he said, speaking before the Petroleum Review went to press.…
USTR PORK REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN pork exports are thriving according to a new report from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) office. Overseas sales of swine, pork and pork products have increased three times in volume and 2.5 times in value since 1993, with the US now exporting more than 700 tonnes of pork worldwide worth over US$1.5 billion.…
SHELL CANADA
BY MONICA DOBIE
SHELL Canada Ltd. has reported it has doubled its first-quarter 2003-4 profits (to May 31) from the year before to CDN$216 million compared to CDN$93million during the same time last year. The company said last year’s heavy investment into an Albertan oil sands project led to a surge in costs.…
MICROBREWERIES STRUGGLE
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICRO-BREWERIES in Quebec, Canada, are to launch an advertising campaign to inform consumers of alleged unfair practices big beer companies use to make their products less accessible to the public, after they lost a legal complaint over the issue.…
MEMORY LOSS
BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS in North Carolina, USA, have released a study that indicates that the use of nicotine patches can counter an existing condition of deteriorating memory loss. Test patches were used on 11 older men and women and after several weeks the subjects had significant improvements in their ability to recognise objects and make decisions quickly.…
BOLIVIA MINE AID
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AREA of northern Bolivia is to be the focus of an innovative Canadian aid mission designed to offer advice on preventing landslides in communities pock-marked with small mines, notably those for gold prospecting.
Canada will fund a team of scientists to help the community of Chima, a remote gold-mining village that was hit by a deadly landslide last month; the specialists want to ensure that they do not suffer from a repeat the tragedy and to help such communities better deal with such disasters, if they do occur.…
GM CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, with Argentina, Canada and Egypt have decided to challenge at the WTO the EU’s five-year de facto moratorium on imports of biotech foods and crops. EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Brussels would fight the case, maintaining that “the EU’s regulatory system for GMO’s authorisation is in line with WTO rules.”…
MUTUAL RECOGNITION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released detailed information about pharmaceutical industry mutual recognition agreements struck between the European Union and the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These trade-enabling regulations are available at http://pharmacos.eudra.org/F2/mra/doc/mraeccan.pdf;
http://pharmacos.eudra.org/F2/mra/doc/mraecus.pdf;
http://pharmacos.eudra.org/F2/mra/doc/mraeccau.pdf; and
http://pharmacos.eudra.org/F2/mra/doc/mraecnz.pdf…