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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 80 million to help Australian-Canadian company Equinox Minerals Ltd develop a new copper mine in Zambia, that is outside the country’s established copper belt. Equinox wants to invest Euro 709 million in a dual site mine, a processing plant and associated infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UKRAINE government should stop building a shipping canal linking the Danube estuary with the Black Sea, until it has consulted its neighbour Romania on the likely environmental damage, the United Nations has advised. Its inquiry commission into the Bystroe Canal has concluded under the UN Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (ESPOO), the Ukraine should allow Romania to comment and stage public consultation on the project.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Munich

SCIENTISTS have reaffirmed their commitment to a code of conduct for the research and exploration of mineral-rich deep ocean volcanic ridges that is expected to provide a template for the way in which mining companies will conduct their ocean bed exploration and extraction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY’S Ruhr valley has long been a symbol of high polluting coal-based industry, so it is apt that a planned 750 MW power station, using the latest clean-coal technology should be sited here. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced plans to lend operators STEAG Aktiengesellschaft, Germany, and ENV AG, Austria, Euro 420 million: half the development costs of a power station in Duisburg-Walsum.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH meat producers will have to face a new and strengthened competitor from Bulgaria once the country joins the European Union (EU) on January 1, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has confirmed. It has formally approved a low interest Euro 15 million loan to boost production at the country’s dominant pigmeat specialist Boni Holding, reforming the company’s pig farms, building a new cutting/de-boning hall, and meat processing units.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed a software tool called an ‘uncertainty manager’, which can help food manufacturers manage unpredictable results when testing products for additive concentration, drug residues and other microbiological issues. Because of many variables, from human error to prevailing weather, results can vary, even for the same test, on a single foodstuff.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has been making progress towards reducing its own impact on the environment, but has work to do regarding its consumption of water and certain wastes. The agency has promised to make its contribution towards a sustainable Europe by doing more with less, and it has slashed the amount of paper it uses to 1.37 million sheets in 2005, from 1.655 million in 2004.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AMERICAN researchers say paint manufacturers continue to produce and sell consumer paints with dangerously high levels of lead in countries with weak environmental health controls. A University of Cincinnati study found 75% of all tested paint in India, China and Malaysia contained high levels of lead, with more than 50% of samples 30 times higher than the permitted US standard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled a new strategy to reduce the environmental health impact of pesticides, still profound, despite being controlled by various European Union (EU) laws. Brussels wants more research into more effective and safer substances, especially non-chemical plant protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNET monitoring tool for ground level ozone has been launched by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which will enable environmental health officers to monitor its growth on a pan-European scale. ‘Ozone Web’ amasses hourly data from more than 500 air quality monitoring stations, displaying it in near real time, along with information on the health problems that can be caused by concentrations.…