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KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW Italian presidency of the European Union has announced that its top key energy priorities – until it leaves office in December – will include the passage into law of the proposed directives on co-generation, (alongside legislation on oil and gas stocks).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Ireland with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to abide by the EU environmental impact assessment directive regarding fish farms. Brussels says that Irish legislation does not allow assessments to take sufficient account of environmentally sensitive sites or of the cumulative effects of smaller individual projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY PHILIP FINE

PRESSURE is mounting on the USA’s Montana to clean up the effects of its old hillside mines. Lawmakers, county commissioners and environmental engineers from

around the state are pressing local Senator Conrad Burns to ask the US Congress for US$35 million (Pounds 22 million) so Montana and 10 other western states can more

quickly clean up some of their abandoned mines.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN federal judge was within his right to temporarily shut down state government approved salmon farms, a US appeals court ruled on August 7. The appellate judge had assessed a May ruling, where a federal judge ordered two Norwegian-owned companies (Atlantic Salmon of Maine and Stolt Sea Farms) to fallow their 12 farms from six to 36 months, after being fined for damaging Maine’s coast with excess feed, faeces and medications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union-funded PANATEX project will hold a workshop in Copenhagen on September 18-19, bringing researchers from the textile, textile and pulp and paper industries to discuss solutions to their respective environmental problems, especially regarding water. *More information – http://www.patantex.net/…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GRANT scheme funnelling money to German citizens wanting to buy environment-friendly insulation made from sheep’s wool, (as well as flax, hemp fibre), rather than conventional fossil materials has been approved by the European Commission. Its decision, made under European Union state aid regulatory powers will send a signal to other EU Member States that such schemes would be approved by Brussels across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Convention – the body drawing up a constitution for the European Union – has dropped its controversial proposal to include the Euratom treaty in its articles. Instead, the Convention has introduced an annex, insisting upon a legal separation between the EU and Euratom.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Convention – drawing up a constitution for the European Union – has dropped plans to incorporate the Euratom treaty in its articles. Instead, the Convention has suggested the EU and Euratom be legally separate. This has been welcomed by environmental groups, (such as Friends of the Earth), who claimed it would allow Member States to quit Euratom, without leaving the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Tunisia’s Tunisacier SA Euro 35 million to help modernise and expand an existing steel plant. It is currently producing galvanised steel sheets and the loan would also help transform it into a rolling and coated steel production centre, fully integrated with the upstream and downstream operations of the company’s parent, the Riva Group.…