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VEDANTA ALUMINIUM REJECTS CRITICISM OVER ORISSA PROJECT
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
VEDANTA Resources, the London-based metals and mining group, is trying to utilise waste from its aluminium refinery in the Indian state of Orissa even as it fights allegations that its operations have caused environmental damage to surrounding hills and harmed local tribal communities.…
COUNTRIES EDGE TOWARDS DEAL ON GLOBAL TREATY ON TRADE IN ILLICIT TOBACCO PRODUCTS
BY DANIEL PRUZIN
REPRESENTATIVES from around 160 countries are moving toward clinching a deal on new World Health Organisation (WHO) Protocol on Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, which could be wrapped up within the next 12 months. Unlike its predecessor, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (under whose authority this latest agreement is being negotiated), the protocol is something of a mixed blessing for the tobacco industry.…
EU MEMBER STATES MUST DO BETTER IN DEALING WITH WATER SCARCITY, SAYS EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a month highlighting that many European Union (EU) countries are living beyond their financial means, it was timely perhaps for the European Commission to note that member states also have unsustainable water policies.
In short, many EU governments are failing to prevent the abstraction of fresh water at rates exceeding nature’s ability to replenish supplies.…
TESCO AND SAINSBURY SHOW HOW TO EXPLOIT DRINKS PRIVATE LABELS
BY KARRYN MILLER
The success of Tesco and Sainsbury’s private label drinks products in Britain cannot be denied. In a time when many companies are tightening their belts and streamlining their product mix, these supermarket retailers are expanding their own-label (to use the standard UK term) drinks range – and consumers are benefiting.…
COURT PROCEEDINGS LAUNCHED FOR ALLEGED ITALIAN BOND ISSUE FRAUD
BY ERIC LYMAN
THE TRIAL of 11 international bankers and two officials from the City of Milan got underway on May 19 in connection with a series of 2005 bond issues in which the parties are accused of generating as much as Euro EUR100 million in illegal fees and interest.…
IS THE FUTURE OF ENERGY UNDER THE FROST?
BY MARK ROWE and GERARD O’DWYER
CONCERNS over climate change often refer to the potential thawing of the Arctic permafrost, where large-scale releases of methane could significantly accelerate global warming. Yet at the same time, governments and energy companies are weighing up the potentially lucrative reserves of methane lying below the permafrost that covers the Siberian continental shelf, and extends up to 1,000 kilometres into the Arctic Ocean.…
UNEP REPORTS SAY METAL RECYCLING RATES TOO LOW
BY ALYSHAH HASHAM and KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has underlined the enormous disparities in stocks of metals used in rich and poor countries.
The report ‘Metals in Society’ examines the amount of individual metals present in society, and the potential for using the in-use stock to offset demand from virgin metal stocks.…
EU AND MEXICO TO COMBINE EFFORTS ON DRAFTING LEGALLY BINDING MERCURY CONTROLS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Mexico have agreed to combine their efforts in drafting by 2013 legally binding controls on the use of mercury in their territories. The commitment comes in a new ‘strategic partnership’ agreed last week (May 16) at the fifth EU-Mexico summit, staged in Comillas, northern Spain.…
IFC BACKS AUSTRALIAN TIN PROJECT IN MOROCCO
BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to invest Australian Dollars AUD 2.4 million (US$2 million) into a tin exploration project in Morocco, carried out by Australia mining company Kasbah Resources Ltd.
This Perth-based outfit is to undertake what it calls the ‘Achmmach Tin Project’, exploring and mining tin in El Hajeb province, northwest Morocco.…
EMISSIONS TRADING AND THE TRANSPORT SECTOR
BY DEIRDRE MASON
After the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, global warming campaigners have hoped UN climate change talks at Cancun, Mexico in December will thrash out a viable successor to the Kyoto agreement, which ends in 2012.…