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BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

THE NUCLEAR energy industry has always been a global business, and since the fall of communism, it has become more, not less international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DEPENDENCE of the European Union (EU) on imports to meet oil supply needs will rise to 95% by 2030, a European Parliament report has claimed. This will expose the EU to strategic dangers through buying oil from unstable or potentially hostile countries in the Middle East and from Russia, it warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EVERY recession has a silver lining: inefficient competitors are unmasked and forced out of business; and governments usually spend freely to pump prime an ailing economy. And for major essential industries such as the power sector, economic slumps can be good times.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

BRITISH scientists have found there’s a lot more to vinegar than splashing it on your chips: it could help cleanse polluted groundwater and prevent disease. Environmental health specialists at the University of Leeds have found adding dilute acetic acid (vinegar) to contaminated water from landfills containing waste from now-closed industrial factories can make polluted run-off cleanse itself.…

BY MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, CRISTINA MUNTEAN and KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has long been something of a laggard when it comes to district heating. The only significant growth was mainly oil-fired network in local authority housing during the 1960s and 70s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FRENCH environmental charity has concluded Gordon Brown’s globetrotting made the senior European leader with the heaviest carbon footprint in 2008. Terra Eco said that although Brown made fewer journeys than France’s hyperactive President Nicolas Sarkozy, he pumped more carbon into the atmosphere using larger less fuel efficient planes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SCIENTIFIC committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a probe into to the potential negative effects on food safety of using cloned animals to make meat and dairy products. The agency wants to release an assessment by June, and so is calling for environmental health officers to pass on by April 30 "relevant information which has become available since January 2008".…

BY WILL ROBERTSON

THE INDONESIAN government is facing legal action over its failure to sign and ratify the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). But the treaty is still unlikely to be formally adopted in this smokers’ haven because of political reasons, tobacco industry observers have told World Tobacco.…

BY MARK ROWE

SHIFTS in technology within an industry always have a major impact on the skills required by its workforce. And this is especially when a sector undergoes a root-and-branch transformation, such as now happening amongst energy utilities. This is because of the sometimes dizzying development of new technology for renewable energy sources, from hydro power to biofuels, solar power, wind power to ground-heat pumps.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH good practice in water conservation highlighted in a major European Union (EU) report are among lessons that must be learnt if Europe is to protect its shrinking water reserves, say EU environmental experts.

The paper, ‘Water resources across Europe – confronting water scarcity and drought’, notes that the EU abstracts around 285 km3 of freshwater annually: 530 cubic metres person.…