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BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING a crystal ball can be useful for environmental health teams wanting to get ahead of the game and know what regulatory changes might be coming in a few years time. But how can they achieve such prescience?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Australia-controlled Albidon Zambia Limited Euro 32 million (US$40 million) to create a new medium-scale underground nickel sulphide mine in Munali, southern Zambia. The money would also help Albidon build and operate an associated ore processing plant and related infrastructure and provide the company enough capital to continue other exploration and business activities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive power sector, electricity companies and their suppliers are always looking for an edge over rivals, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies through its ‘seventh framework programme’, its largest ever research spending scheme, commanding budgets worth Euro 53.2 billion in total.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Australia-controlled Albidon Zambia Limited Euro 32 million (US$40 million) to create a new medium-scale underground nickel sulphide mine in Munali, southern Zambia. The money would also help Albidon build and operate an associated ore processing plant and related infrastructure and provide the company enough capital to continue other exploration and business activities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUBLIC subsidies paid to the polluting energy producers, such as coal-fired power stations, should be screened for promoting environmental damage, an influential European Union (EU) expert group has proposed.

The EU’s High-Level Group on Energy, Competitiveness and the Environment, which includes EU Commissioners, national government representatives, and executives from European industry, unions, non-governmental organisations and regulators, said “subsidies must serve the common interest”, or be phased out.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UTILTIES that kill or seriously injure a person through illegal environmental negligence would be fined at least Euro 750,000 and see executives face five years in jail under a new proposed European Union (EU) directive on ‘eco-crime’. The European Commission wants member states to criminalise offences including “the illegal emission of hazardous substances into the air, water or soil”, and introduce minimum “dissuasive punishments”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RUSSIAN mobile crane and slewing rig production company will be lent US$40 million by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it acquire rivals, boost investment and improve corporate governance. OJSC Autocrane will receive the loan, US$10 million of which will be syndicated via commercial banks.…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Berlin
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) ambitious European Research Council (ERC) was launched this week (Tue and Wed 27/28-2) as the provider of what it’s founding ruling committee called the “Champion’s League of Researchers”. Armed with a Euro 7 billion budget from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, the council is meant to provide researchers in the EU with innovation and competition stimuli, thus enhancing the EU’s research and economic performance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend the Polish city of Gdansk up to Euro 91.36 million for boosting the quality and management of its dinking water supply systems and its wastewater collection and treatment networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Europe’s political temperature over Brussels’s potential involvement in promoting public place smoking bans across the European Union (EU). In a newly released green paper, it asks member states, local governments, businesses and non-governmental organisations to say how draconian they would like national laws on restricting smoking in offices, pubs, restaurants and the like.…