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BY ALAN OSBORN
AS with any organisation that represents members with a common basic purpose but often with radically different approaches towards achieving it, CANSO has had some difficulty in defining its voice in the community in which it operates. Indeed it is a fairly new organisation, formally set up in 1998, and composed of leading civil air navigation service operators who until then had been used to speaking their own minds without any need to temper their opinions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A supermarket boom in sub-Saharan Africa is raising food production and distribution standards, which many small farmers cannot meet, said the UN’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It called for the funding of cooperatives, micro-loans and training, especially in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.…

BY MARK ROWE
SAND quarrying in Indonesia has been suspended for two months amidst claims by mining companies that they cannot afford new taxes and royalties imposed by the central government; investors have also blamed complicated licensing procedures designed to reduce smuggling.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of Sri Lanka is embarking on a comprehensive survey of the country’s clay resources as demand grows thanks to an official policy of promoting a home-grown ceramics industry, which is already the largest mineral-based sector in this south Asian country.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT air traffic management (ATM) is flawed in many ways; one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago.

Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSP’s) have a responsibility to ensure that the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Sweden with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its failure to pass national rules insisting upon environmental impact assessments (EIA) for the decommissioning of nuclear power stations. Brussels claims that the EU’s EIA directive requires that the dismantling of plants and reactors should be subject to planning consent, following an environmental impact assessment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Russia’s largest zinc smelter US$12 million to help it eliminate mercury emissions and drastically reduce emissions of sulphur oxydes. The six -year loan to the Chelyabinsk zinc smelter, is the bank’s second in two years; it will finance the construction of a mercury recovery plant and a sulphuric acid plant under the second phase of a modernisation scheme.…

BY MARK ROWE
A SOUTH Korean firm has begun selling canned “clean air,” tapping into mounting environmental concerns about industrial and car pollution in the capital Seoul and other major cities. Officials at CJ Corp said that it was the first company to market natural air, as opposed to processed oxygen or perfumed air in South Korea.…

Keith Nuthall
SHIP’S masters are always alert to the threat posed by stowaways, but not necessarily when those uninvited passengers have scales, fins and gills. Both the International Maritime Organisation and the European Union are working to tighten global environmental regulations that prevent the accidental transportation of such illegal aliens in ballast water.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has reached a negative conclusion about the environmental impact of aquaculture in European Union (EU) lakes and seas, saying that the “dramatic increase” in the size of the industry since 1970 had created “an increased pressure on water and ecological quality in those waters affected.”…