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EEA WATER REPORT - GREENWATCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY year it seems, the international community has a pet topic in which it is fashionable to promote good behaviour, and this year the favoured cause seems to be water conservation. The World Bank, the UN Environment Programme and others have all produced weighty tomes on the need to conserve drinking water stocks.…
OECD REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURAL economists may disagree, but predicting trends in world food markets is not necessarily rocket science. A dose of healthy common sense can be as good a guide for the future demand for commodities as any amount of slide rules and complex economic equations.…
PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVEN the most ill-informed layman knows that modern farming is often a technically advanced and scientific business, but the extent to which new technologies are being used to maximise production is not so-widely known, even within the industry itself.…
PALESTINE SPENDING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Parliament probe into allegations that European Union budgetary aid for the Palestinian Authority (PA) was misused – maybe being funnelled into the hands of terrorist groups – has held its first meeting in Strasbourg.
The working group will draw up a report by the end of this year.…
ALASKA LATEST
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US House of Representatives has put Alaska drilling back into its
latest energy bill while, on the other side of Congress, the Senate has
backed away from the contentious issue. Last month, a majority of House
members defeated a series of amendments that would have exempted the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge from the bill.…
EU CHEMCALS PROPOSALS
BY ALAN OSBORN
POLYMERS and other intermediate chemicals have come off lightly under the European Commission’s long-awaited proposals for new legislation to regulate chemicals in the European Union. In many cases such substances will be freed from the need to register and for others the requirements will be significantly eased.…
FOOD SAFETY THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOW the arguing is over and the dye has been cast, it is time to start work on the practicalities of admitting 10 new countries to the European Union, making this long discussed enlargement work for British and western European farmers.…
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to meet their Kyoto commitments.…
BRUSSELS PLAN FOR MINING WASTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
New EU-wide rules to regulate waste from extractive industries like mining and quarrying have been proposed by the European Commission in a move to prevent the pollution of water and soil arising out of the long-term storage of waste in tailings ponds, waste heaps, lakes and rivers.…
G8 TANKER PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government at the recent G8 summit in France have committed their countries to reducing the environmental threat posed by oil tankers. A communiqué committed their governments to accelerate the introduction of a safety code for flag states, establish mandatory pilotage in narrow, restricted or congested waters, improve inspections and other measures.…