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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed plans to lend St Petersburg’s Lenenergo Euro 40 million to finance the completion of a power plant project the bank wants to use as a model for similar integrated heat and power utilities across Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL initiative to cleanse the polluted Barents Sea of nuclear waste has been launched, with Euro 110 million being pledged by Russia, the European Commission, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The Barents clean-up will be the first priority project of this Support Fund of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership; the sea, to the north of Russia and Norway, is commonly known as the largest repository of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in the world.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
EASTERN European countries that built nuclear power plants while under the communist system never thought they would face deadlines for closing them down as a prerequisite for joining the European Union. Neither had they built in the next stage – decommissioning – into the prices charged for electricity in the way that the western European nuclear plant operators had done from the start.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been formally criticised by the European Ombudsman, over its handling and investigation of a complaint against the Greek government by a campaigner opposing the construction of a biological treatment plant and sewerage system in a pretty coastal tourist town.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WIDERANGING public consultation on the use of the European Union’s planned satellite-based environmental monitoring system (GMES) has been launched. The European Commission will be staging a series of open meetings on the system, operational by 2008. Advice culled from these forums will be included in a report to be published next year.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
SMALL shops in Ireland are losing Euros 450 (Pounds 300) worth of shopping baskets every month on average, following the introduction of a Euro 15 cent (10p) environmental levy on plastic carrier bags, according to an Irish small retailers group.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH Africa’s Sappi Adamas paper mill, which produces 35,000 tonnes of paper per annum for export and local markets at Deal Party, near Port Elizabeth, recently celebrated its 50th birthday by gaining ISO 14001 working practice accreditation. Dave Glazebrook, Adamas general manager said it was the first step in reducing the mill’s environmental impact.…

KEITH NUTHALL
This is based on a feature I wrote for Geographical Magazine a couple of years ago but which I am now focusing solely on Tasmania rather than nationwide.

Tasmanian aquaculture

Matthew Brace, Sydney

Australia is sold to the world as a vast baking continent with quartzite ridges stretching to the horizon like the fossilised carcasses of fallen dinosaurs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering lending Pounds 25 million to British food processor Princes Ltd to improve its production, while maintaining or improving its health, safety and environmental standards.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NOT many items of legislation from Brussels have provoked quite such anger among farmers over the years as the nitrates directive, which seeks to protect water from nitrate pollution caused by the application of organic and inorganic fertilisers to agricultural land.…