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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRIA is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive and Ireland is being threatened with such legal action for the same reason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL and judicial pressure is being applied to Belgium to ensure it complies with European legislation opposing “tacit approvals” of pollution. Belgian law allows some companies and public organisations to pollute if they apply for permission and receive no reply from regulators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEED for greater openness in the management of scarce water resources in Europe, north Africa, the Middle East and central Asia is required, to better highlight the growing costs of ensuring reliable supplies and persuade the public that more investment is needed to guarantee them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the scheme to privatise and re-equip Montenegro’s aluminium producer Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica (KAP) have been revealed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which has plans to support the idea with a Euro 3 million loan.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAI farmers of black tiger prawns have launched a series of protests across the country calling for a ban on cheap imports of prawns from neighbouring countries. The farmers are angry that the prawns are simply processed and re-exported, undercutting their own market in the process.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRIAN government is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission because of its failure to impose sufficient environmental controls on intensive pig and poultry production in Austria. The Commission alleges that in this way, the country is breaking the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive.…

BY MARK ROWE
AN INDONESIAN environmental organisation report alleges that tailings from the gold mining firm Newmont Minahasa Raya contain four times the government-allowed level of cyanide, endangering the health of residents and threatening the environment. The Indonesian Forum for the Environment says high levels of cyanide, mercury, cadmium and arsenic in Buyat Bay had been found in marine animals and reduced the catch of local fishermen in north Sulawesi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its knitting facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to stage an environmental impact assessment into the establishment of an intensive pig breeding farm at Perd’e Cuaddu, Sardinia.…