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BY MARK ROWE

CO-GENERATION (or combined-heat and power – CHP) plants operate using a variety of technologies: gas turbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, gas or diesel engines and combined cycle gas turbines. According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – the European Union’s (EU) scientific and technical research body – natural gas is currently the preferred fuel across Europe for co-gen, with combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) and gas turbine plants expected to become the predominant future technology for large-scale units.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A KEY European Union (EU) scientific committee is examining chemicals, including those used by the paint and coating industry, to determine their safety to the environment, ahead of a European Commission review. Brussels is scheduled this summer to propose to ministers and MEPs new and revised EU Environmental Quality Standards that limit how much certain chemicals can leach into surface waters, a key issue for coatings producers, especially those producing waterproof paints.…

BY GEMMA HANDY

WORLDWIDE assets of the former leader of a British overseas territory have been frozen amid corruption investigations into malfeasance at the highest level in the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Its autonomous constitution was suspended and the country returned to direct British rule in August 2009 after a UK-appointed Commission of Inquiry declared corruption "endemic".…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O’DWYER and MINDY RAN

In November 2010, Dutch company Remeha released the world’s first, commercially available, micro-CHP combination-boiler for single-family households; the Remeha eVita. This energy-efficient micro-CHP unit, which works with a simple room thermostat, is the result of intensive research and development over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MARK ROWE, GERARD O’DWYER, ALAN OSBORN and MJ DESCHAMPS

COGENERATION has been something of a test-bed for European Union (EU) energy development policy, and like any experiment, some things have worked and others have not. Also, because other energy priorities have become the subject of more effective legislation recently, cogeneration has been left behind to some extent in the EU’s push for a cleaner, greener, sustainable and more liberal energy sector.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

IT might sound like science fiction, but airport managers really are exploring the use of robots to boost security at airports. Partly this is because for some potentially extreme events, it is better to put a robot in harm’s way, rather than humans.…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

All over the world, when, where and what kind of alcohol consumers can purchase varies between each country’s national – and, occasionally, regional – laws. One would understand if alcoholic beverage manufacturers would prefer operating in markets where retailers are free to sell alcohol, versus those were a limited number of agents can make sales.…

BY MINI PANT ZACHARIAH

India’s United Breweries (UB) has told just-drinks that its planned 2011 Indian launch of Heineken is still on schedule, despite widespread reports of delays to 2012. Indian newspapers have quoted unnamed trade officials citing upgrades at UB’s Mumbai brewery as preventing planned Heineken sales from October.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is more than 18 months since the earthquake that ravaged Haiti seriously damaged Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, notably its air traffic control tower, rendering it unusable. The airport suffered structural damage to its terminal building walls and there were some major electrical faults.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DUTCH government has released a paper at the European Union Council of Ministers that presses the European Commission to make good on its plans this summer to propose specific legislation controlling nanotechnology. At a council debate, minutes said the Dutch delegation "argued that the current legislation is not geared to evaluating the specific hazards related to nano-engineered particles."…