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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THINK of Latin American mines, and political and industrial
relations instability springs to mind. Pictures of poncho’d Bolivian Amerindians demonstrating against poor conditions,
hurling rocks at robocops armed to the teeth….

The truth is that the mining industry often gets a bad rap in Latin America and, to be honest, it has often been run poorly, especially in environmental terms.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and DEIRDRE MASON

HEAVY lobbying, principally by the German chemical industry, has delivered a much more industry-friendly version of the European Union’s (EU) ambitious REACH chemical control legislation than had seemed likely at almost any time in recent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative farmed seafood industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) report has criticised urban sprawl in the European Union (EU) warning that expanding suburbs are piling on additional energy infrastructure investment and running costs, above densely those in populated cities. The report added such development also increased "high impact air pollution…restricted availability of fresh water", and other environmental problems, such as "soil sealing, which increases the effects of flooding".…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen

THERE are high hopes in Greenland for oil wealth of North Sea dimensions as major oil companies embark on new exploration quests in Arctic conditions. This follows discoveries 15 years ago, when scientists found oil seepages at Greenland’s Nuussuaq peninsula and ever since reports have been made to the international oil sector of enormous deposits of fossil energy below the ice seas surrounding the huge ice-covered island.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN science project has said it is ready to move ahead with tire giant Goodyear to commercialise tested and new tire sensors that can warn motorists of potential blowouts, skids, aquaplanes and other potentially dangerous accidents. The EUREKA research network’s TYRESENSE project said it is "ready to hit the ground running" with the sensors, which are a few square millimeters in size and embedded into tire treads.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has moved to remove drafting problems from a crucial new European Union waste framework directive insisting upon a hierarchy of waste treatment for all materials. Put simply, all governments, regulators and public policy developers would ensure waste is: first prevented; second reused; third recycled; fourth recovered; and only finally, disposed of.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is preparing to lend US$25 million to modernise and expand Armenia’s Kapan mine, which has substantial copper, zinc, silver and gold reserves. The money would go to operator the Deno Gold Mining Company, controlled by Canada’s Dundee Precious Metals Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has controversially told auto manufacturers they have until January 2012 to ensure private diesel passenger vehicles with a reference mass exceeding 2000 kg, designed to carry 7 or more occupants including the driver comply with the European Union’s (EU) new Euro V fuel and engine emission standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and DEIRDRE MASON

COSMETIC, soap and perfume manufacturers at last know the shape of the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations, after three difficult years of negotiations. On December 13, the European Parliament voted to accept the compromise thrashed out between itself and the EU Council of Ministers.…