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BY MARK ROWE
AUSTRALIAN specialised technology firm Ausmelt has signed a US$9.5 million contract to provide its technology to modernise the Karabashmed copper smelter in Russia’s Urals region. Work on an engineering design for a new Ausmelt furnace and an electric settling furnace will begin immediately and the new plant is set to commence operations in the second half of 2004.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be ‘green-minded,’ in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEW book has taken cruise lines to task on their labour, environmental and

commercial practices. Cruise Ship Blues by Newfoundland, Canada, writer Ross A Klein finds many employees in the industry working 16-17 hours a day, 7 days a

week for 10-12 months straight.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDEPENDENT World Bank inspection panel has criticised the development body for flouting its own guidelines regarding the Coal Sector Environmental and Social Mitigation Project in India, which led to the relocation of families from the Parej East mining region.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Norilsk Nickel has announced long-terms plans to boost its modernisation plan begun last year across its plants and products. Norilsk spent US$351 million on modernisation in 2002 and plans to invest the same amount in 2003, the company said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked EU ministers to approve a new protocol to the Paris Convention on international nuclear insurance, allowing a significant extension of cover via a tough hike in the third party liability of power stations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Aluminium Association has welcomed the writing of a specific request into the European Union’s new emissions trading legislation that the aluminium industry be included from the year 2008. The final shape of the directive incorporating the EU’s Kyoto Protocol commitments has now been approved, covering the issuing of permits to pollute for the iron and steel sector, but not non-ferrous metal industries.…