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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INVESTMENTS in the waste water systems of the Spanish Basque province of Guipuzcoa that are likely to be supported by the European Investment Bank (EIB) should also positively benefit the environmental health of water supplies in France’s Basque country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of millions of tonnes of uranium mining waste being swept by a landslide into the populous Fergana Valley river basin in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikstan has prompted the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to redouble efforts to prevent this tragedy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into the environmental conditions sparking asthma and allergies in Europe are to be carried out by an expert network (GA2LEN) funded by Euro 14.4 million in EU research grants. The initiative involves 650 researchers in 16 countries and will investigate national contrasts in allergy rates ranging between 32 per cent for British teenagers and 2.6 per cent for Albanian teens.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
APPROVAL for the CDN$8.5 billion Horizon oil sands project in Fort McMurray, Alberta, has been granted to Canadian Natural Resources, by both by Alberta’s energy regulator and Canada’s federal environmental assessment agency. The go ahead came with 17 conditions relating to mining operations, resource conservation and tailings management that must be met by the Calgary-based oil and gas producer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Parliament has taken issue with the European Commission by insisting that responsibility for the safety of nuclear installations should remain under the control of the various national safety authorities. Brussels had sought to extend its own authority in this area which has assumed new significance because of the entry into the EU in May of several countries with ageing nuclear plants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission is taking legal action against the UK, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Luxembourg for failing to comply with EU laws on general waste management, hazardous waste, waste oils, landfills and the hazardous chemicals PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ELECTRONICS recycling partnership has been launched in the US. The Environmental Protection Agency, retail giant Staples and the Product Stewardship Institute have convinced nine major electronics manufacturers, including Apple and Sony to pay for the recycling of their products.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GAP Inc has joined a group of American corporations that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The clothing retailer, which also owns the Banana Republic and Old Navy brands, last month signed on to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders’, a group that now numbers 54.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMBINED investment of around Euro 50 million in United Utilities Europe (UUE) by the United Utilities group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will allow the subsidiary to increase its ownership of three eastern European water and wastewater companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of countries have formed a network of excellence developing expertise in the deep underground storage of radioactive waste. Coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, participants include Belgium’s Hades Underground Research Facility in Mol; Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory of Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba; Switzerland’s Grimsel Test Site and Mont-Terri Underground Research Laboratory; Britain’s Geo-Environmental Research Centre, Cardiff; and the USA’s WIPP facility, New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco.…