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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 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 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.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

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.…

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 Aluminium Association has welcomed the writing of a specific request into the European Union’s new emissions trading legislation that the aluminium industry be included from the year 2008. The final shape of the directive incorporating the EU’s Kyoto Protocol commitments has now been approved, covering the issuing of permits to pollute for the iron and steel sector, but not non-ferrous metal industries.…

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 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 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.…