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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by the British government of Euro 80 million in additional state aid to boost the movement of freight through the Scottish port of Rosyth, in a bid to boost the country’s short sea shipping sector.…

BY KATE REW
OPPONENTS of America’s largest cat litter mining project in northern Nevada have persuaded the local planning commission to refuse the production company Oil-Dri a ‘special use permit,’ which gives it the right to process the mineral at the mine site.…

BY MIKE FOX
ENVIRONMENT officials and ministers from more than one hundred countries meeting at a United Nations conference in Montreal have renewed their commitment to trying to protect the world’s oceans from land-based pollution.

They framed a comprehensive communiqué, after hearing from an environmental body representing more than 400 local governments, which outlined how its members can play a major role in protecting the oceans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW report from the European Environment Agency has described the wide gulf between Member States’ performance on renewable energy generation and highlighted a number of reasons for this. The top performer for 1993-9 was Germany, which surged ahead with the development of photovoltaics, solar thermal installations and wind generated energy output.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending a town in northern Sweden Euro 33 million to build a biomass fuelled combined heat and power station, which will consume a fuel that is widely available in the area: timber and wood chips.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a curious fact that whilst Britain has a lot more wind than Germany, it has significantly less wind power electricity generation. Also, why has a country blessed with as much sun as Greece, failed to develop solar panels as quickly as its fellow southern Mediterranean EU Member State Spain?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the rulebook of the Kyoto Protocol all but written, the European Commission has been considering innovative ways in which it can help reduce the EU’s production of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Much emphasis has been made in the past on reducing industrial pollution or emissions from cars and lorries, but Brussels has now turned its attention to a source of the gases that is very much under the control of local authorities: waste disposal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TRAFFICKING of endangered species, and other environmental crimes such as smuggling pollutants, is a billion dollar business says the Milan-based United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, (UNICRI), which has published a study on these modern scourges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNOPS, the United Nations’ major provider of project management services, has signed a partnership agreement with YUKOS, the second largest oil company in Russia in terms of oil and gas production and reserves. The agreement aims at establishing the terms for future cooperation between YUKOS and other UN organisations in Russia and neighbouring countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers for the environment has given political agreement to the creation of official guidelines for Member States on Integrated Coastal Zone Management. It means that EU governments will have to develop strategies coordinating national, regional and local regulations and initiatives fighting the pollution of coasts, covering beaches and cliffs as well as the sea.…