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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CALLS have been made for major additional spending on European Union (EU) energy infrastructure, now a new European Commission team is in office.

The European Parliament’s industry committee has strengthened EU proposals to ensure member states have sufficient interconnected energy links to deal with any unexpected winter shortages.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

THE FINALISED National Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) programme of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may show the Obama administration’s continuing support for boosting biofuel production – but will it give concrete results? The updated rules have considered the mixed reviews expressed when a proposed programme was announced last year, however some interested parties still feel the latest outcome will fail to propel the biofuel industry forward.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH a new European Commission in office, major decisions can now be made on pushing ahead with European Union (EU) energy policy priorities: Brussels has released a Euro 4 billion package of 31 gas infrastructure (and 12 electricity) projects.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE ISLAND Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain has embarked on a US$4.7 billion (Euro 3.45 billion) expansion of its one and only commercial airport, the Bahrain International Airport (BIA), to handle rising passenger traffic and regain its position as an aviation hub in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 52.8 million to the operator of Poland’s Wroclaw airport to build a new terminal and make other improvements, expanding annual capacity to 3.1 million passengers. Port Lotniczy Wroclaw SA will also use the money to extend and modify terminal one; improve aprons, taxiways, de-icing facilities, drainage and navigation systems; and boost car parking and access roads.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that polluting companies in the European Union (EU), such as some dye and textile chemical manufacturers, could be liable for pollution clean-ups, just by being located close to an environmental problem.…

BY MARK ROWE

BOTH the oils and fats industry and environmentalists have long been aware of concerns over the oil palm, the prolific shrub that can be converted into palm oil, one of the most versatile fats known to man.

For almost as long, there have been campaigns to improve its cultivation in south-east Asia, which accounts for around 75% of global supply; but concern is now focussing on South America, where cultivation is growing rapidly, placing pressure on the Amazon rainforest and other wildlife-rich habitats in a belt stretching across central Brazil and Ecuador to Colombia’s Caribbean coast.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE NEW ‘common position’ or agreement in principle reached by European Union (EU) environment ministers on the EU’s revised and renamed integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) directive looks reasonably acceptable to utilities at first sight. "I think basically we can live with it," said John Scowcroft, head of environment at Eurelectric, the EU electricity producers association.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) are starting to roll out joint projects after signing a major cooperation deal late last year.

The UN agency and the JRC’s Institute for Energy have agreed a ‘Practical Arrangement’ which outlined five main areas of joint work.…

BY MARK ROWE

RUSSIA’S near abroad appears to offer an A-Z of both money laundering activities – from low level corruption to more sinister opium-based profits – and of the wide spectrum of governmental attitudes towards tackling the problem.

"While Russian and Ukrainian gangs have a presence in a lot of the activity in the region, most money laundering is still done by indigenes," said Mark Galeotti, of the Centre for Global Affairs at New York University (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT).…