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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANDRIS Piebalgs, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for energy, has announced that energy conservation would be his top overall policy priority for his five-year term, not developing new energy sources. The European Commission will this year launch a ‘European Energy Efficiency Initiative’, he said, setting the EU “an ambitious but realistic and achievable target” to save, by 2010, the equivalent of 70 million tonnes of oil per annum, saving the EU Euro 15 billion annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has released plans to lend Lithuania utility AB Lietuvos Elektrine Euro 15 million to upgrade the country’s gas and oil-run Lithuanian Power Plant (LPP), which will be the country’s main electricity producer after its Ignalina nuclear plant closes by 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPRESENTATIVE of the largest political group on the European Parliament (EP) has proposed that the cosmetics industry should be exempted from the European Union’s (EU) proposed REACH chemical control system. German MEP Hartmut Nassauer, a member of the EP’s European People’s Party/European Democrats group, has said including cosmetics could create conflicts with existing EU cosmetics legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPRESENTATIVE of the largest political group on the European Parliament has presented fresh reforms to the European Union’s (EU) proposed REACH chemical control system, that he says will make the system cheaper and less bureaucratic. German MEP Hartmut Nassauer, a member of the EP’s European People’s Party/European Democrats group, will make his proposals to the EP’s internal market committee, which is working with the environment committee to table amendments to the full parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to make large low interest loans to two British utilities, to fund major capital works schemes. In Northern Ireland, the publicly-owned European Union (EU) bank wants to lend the province’s Water Service up to GBPounds 88 million to help improve the quality, quantity and security of its treated water supplies to 781,000 customers, ensuring compliance with the EU drinking water directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHIPOWNERS and their insurers must ensure from today (Thur – 19 May) that their vessels abide by new international rules controlling harmful maritime pollution.

The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) ‘regulations for the prevention of air pollution from ships’ are came into force at Midnight.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) is financing three new assessments of Kosovo’s energy industry, focusing mainly on the autonomous Balkans province’s coal-fired power stations. The EAR, the European Union (EU) body aiding economic recovery in Kosovo, Serbia & Montenegro and Macedonia, will stage three studies:

*Examining the feasibility of building a brand new power station, which may use coal;

*Limiting the environmental impact of the coal-fired Kosovo B plant, currently the province’s main producer of electricity; and

*Studying the economic and technical feasibility of rehabilitating four units of the coal-fired Kosovo A power station.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Bulgaria’s Maritza East I Power Company Euro 430.5 million to finance construction of a two-300MW generator lignite-fired power plant on a ‘build-own-operate-transfer’ basis. The project will help Bulgaria deal with the closure of nuclear power plants at Kozloduy – a safety-inspired condition of the country’s 2007 European Union (EU) accession.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE INCREASING global demand for mineral resources – especially from Asia – has breathed new life into a remote yet highly and diversely mineralised part of Australia. The island of Tasmania, off the south east coast of the continent, is revelling in a mining boom, the like of which it has not seen for more than a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPRESENTATIVE of the largest political group on the European Parliament has presented fresh reforms to the European Union’s proposed REACH chemical control system, aimed at making the system cheaper and simpler. German MEP Hartmut Nassauer’s proposed amendments will be debated in preparations for parliament’s first vote on the project.…