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ESTONIA REFORMS
KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY on the environmental performance of Estonia’s two main electricity generators has concluded that significant investment will be required to enable them to attain the European Union standards that they must achieve when the Baltic country becomes a EU Member State.…
GASIFICATION
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN agency has proposed the addition of certain hazardous waste materials to its country’s fledgling gasification programme. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that up to seven to 10 million tons of hazardous byproducts from the petroleum refining industry could be put under high temperatures and converted into gas.…
GASIFICATION
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA’S Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the production of chemical gases from waste materials by reclassifying these currently "hazardous" toxins and allowing them to be used in gasification programmes, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into a so-called syngas.…
GASIFICATION
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA’S Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the production of chemical gases from waste materials by reclassifying these currently "hazardous" toxins and allowing them to be used in gasification programmes, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into a so-called syngas.…
DUBLIN AIRPORT
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has thrown out an allegation that Irish air authority Aer Rianta abused a dominant position in Ireland’s aviation sector when Fingal County Council rejected an application for the construction of a second terminal at Dublin airport in 1997.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has claimed that energy use is still rising in the European Union, mainly because of increasing transport consumption and has alleged that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions could return to their 1990 levels by the year 2010 unless Brussels and Member States take firm action; this would include promoting renewable energy, said the EEA.…
CANADA CONSULTANTS
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on mining and metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. The two companies have decided they can work well together as their areas of expertise dovetail, rather than duplicate each other’s.…
CHINA - BIOTECH
BY MARK ROWE
CHINA is drafting its first law governing the use of biotechnology in an attempt to protect public health and the environment. The law will seek to control the potentially harmful effects of genetically modified organisms, such as crops, in areas including research and imports from abroad.…
TYSON FOODS
BY PHILIP FINE
AN INFLUENTIAL environmental group is taking the world’s largest poultry company to court for allegedly failing to quell noxious releases emanating from its contracted farmers’ properties. The Sierra Club alleges that Kentucky-based Tyson Foods failed to report releases of ammonia at four of its suppliers’ chicken houses.…
KENTUCKY CHICKEN
BY PHILIP FINE
AN ENVIRONMENTAL group is taking the world’s largest poultry company to court for allegedly failing to take care of noxious releases on one of their contracted farms. The Sierra Club alleges that the US’s Kentucky-based Tyson Foods failed to report releases of ammonia on four large ‘chicken houses.’…