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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
PENNSYLVANIA based chocolate giant, Hershey, has announced it will close its plant in Smiths Falls, Ontario, 60km south of Ottawa, after 44 years in operation. Roughly 500 people will lose their jobs. The phased shut down will begin late 2007, continuing into 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is maybe reassuring that during an era where food companies must increasingly grapple with often complex global and regional cross-border trade, health, packaging and marketing regulations, there is one international organisation that actually designs rules with their practical use in mind.…

BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change, the general scientific consensus now holds, is taking place, and will continue to do so even were we to stop our fossil fuel emissions overnight. And while there may be jests to the effect that hotter summers would be good news for drinks manufacturers, the reality is that the drinks sector faces as many challenges as any other industry, both in terms of ingredient and energy supplies, production adjustments and related commercial issues.…

BY DINAH GARDNER, in Beijing
IT was already two years late, but China’s newest and biggest nuclear reactor has just been judged ready for full operation. The Russian-built 1060 MWe Tianwan nuclear power reactor in the eastern port city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu province came on line in January.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Shaking off fears that the American/Canadian price differential would put off book-buyers, Canadian bookshops had a good Christmas with 71% of members of the Canadian Booksellers Association reporting higher sales compared to the 2005 period. Over a quarter of all respondents said sales were up by more than 10%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a trade agreement with Canada giving its exporters the rights to send 1,000’s of tonnes of meat to EU markets. The deal incorporates annual import rights previously offered by the 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004, to be transformed into pan-EU access.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN tobacco companies have voluntarily agreed to remove descriptors such as ‘light’, ‘mild’ and similar variations from their cigarette packaging from next summer.

Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd, Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc. and JTI-Macdonald Corp. will each phase out these slogans on affected brands and products from December 31, 2006, with an implementation deadline of July 31, 2007.…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen

THERE are high hopes in Greenland for oil wealth of North Sea dimensions as major oil companies embark on new exploration quests in Arctic conditions. This follows discoveries 15 years ago, when scientists found oil seepages at Greenland’s Nuussuaq peninsula and ever since reports have been made to the international oil sector of enormous deposits of fossil energy below the ice seas surrounding the huge ice-covered island.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CANADIAN province of Ontario is refusing to join six other provinces in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against big tobacco companies, leaving the western province of British Columbia to lead the fight.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has said: "There are two agendas here.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THINK of Latin American mines, and political and industrial
relations instability springs to mind. Pictures of poncho’d Bolivian Amerindians demonstrating against poor conditions,
hurling rocks at robocops armed to the teeth….

The truth is that the mining industry often gets a bad rap in Latin America and, to be honest, it has often been run poorly, especially in environmental terms.…