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BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH and Dutch researchers warn oyster and mussel health is being risked by CO2 emissions’ making the world’s seas significantly more acidic. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Oceanographic laboratory of the French National Scientific Research Centre have noted projections ocean pH will fall 0.4 units by 2100.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH and Dutch researchers are warning that the health of oysters and mussels are being risked by CO2 emissions’ making the world’s seas significantly more acidic. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) and the Oceanographic laboratory of the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) warn the 25 million tonnes of CO2 absorbed by the sea daily has lowered global oceans’ average pH by 0.1 units since the industrial revolution, (making it more acidic), and they have noted projections this pH will fall a further 0.4 units by 2100.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUTCH brewers Heineken, Grolsch and Bavaria have been fined a total of Euro 273 million for operating a beer cartel in the Netherland between 1996 and 1999, with the InBev group, which escaped paying fines by blowing the whistle on the illegal price fixing deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has backed the British government in a legal row with the European Commission over the re-issuing of fishing licences that had been used by UK-flagged boats transferred to Argentina under a capacity reduction programme mandated by Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Sint Maarten
A NEW Caribbean airport terminal has been opened to secure Sint Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport’s (PJIA) role as a regional hub. Formally launched by the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix November 10, the airport serves the world’s smallest territory split between two sovereign states (Dutch Sint Maarten and French Saint Martin).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW fishing access deal has been negotiated between the European Commission and the Ivory Coast. Running six years from this June, the agreement is designed to replace an existing deal in place since 1990. The new deal will focus entirely on tuna, wIth European Union (EU) fishing rights being cut from an existing 9,000 to 7,000 tonnes per year, to be exploited by 25 seiners and 15 surface long liners, (down from 34 and up from 11 respectively under the existing system).The…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WITH every new piece of European Union (EU)-inspired road and vehicle-safety legislation brings a new opportunity to make and sell the kit to local authorities so that they can comply. Speed limiters may not be the newest story in safety equipment, but the requirements to fit them had a further boost on January 1 this year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DUTCH scientists from Eindhoven Technical University have developed an inexpensive software patch that can reduce CO2 emissions in new vehicles by 2.6%. The patch shuts alternators on and off when a car or van’s speed makes it inefficient for the engine to power it, conserving energy and improving the overall efficiency of the engine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s consumer alert service RAPEX has warned of a voluntary recall of ‘Rival de Loop’ double effect mascara in the Netherlands. This followed the discovery of excess bacterial contamination in 17% of the line, which was totally recalled.…