Search Results for: Greek

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUND-breaking environmental initiative is being developed in Greece involving a desalination plant being powered wholly by the heat of the earth’s upper crust.

The plant’s electricity turbines will be driven by geothermal fluids pumped from deep underground fissures under the island, whose temperatures can reach 100°C.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN insurance group Gerling is providing financial and managerial support to a ground-breaking environmental initiative in the hope that it will be copied and that the company will be asked to underwrite similar initiatives because of its expertise.…

BY MARK ROWE
SHIPPING lines are resisting Australian government plans for greater use of pilots to guide them past the Great Barrier Reef. Shipping Australia Ltd argues that pilots are overworked and that pilots sleep an average of just five hours each day.…

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
CHEESE sold in the European Union as Greek Feta will be only produced in certain areas of Greece and follow strict product specifications if a proposed registration of the product as a Protected Designation of Origin is approved by EU ministers.…

BY MARK ROWE
ONE hundred years on, the wheel has turned full circle and brands are again at the forefront of BAT’s business. “We started in brands and territories,” said Jimmi Rembiszewski, BAT’s marketing director. “That wisdom became a little lost when BAT diversified but today we are much more brand-centric.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN, Italian, Greek and Portuguese governments may soon be ordered to pass laws insisting that motorised outdoor gardening equipment used in their countries abide by European Union noise legislation.

Formal legal proceedings at the European Court of Justice has been threatened against all four governments by the European Commission, which claims that they failed to meet a July 2001 deadline to implement the directive 2000/14/EC on noise emissions from outdoor equipment.…

Keith Nuthall
NOONE should ever accuse the European Commission of fighting shy of regulation, and given that proposals on promoting shipping safety are generally framed with good intentions, it would be fair to say that Brussels at least tries to improve standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GREEK renewable energy company has been ordered to repay the equivalent of Drachma 9.4 million, plus interest, of the Drachma 13.8 million it was given by the European Commission in 1985 to instal a 300 kW wind energy converter on an Aegean island; the idea was to demonstrate the system for two years and then hand it over to an operator.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LOCATION of Afghanistan’s national museum in a southern Kabul suburb must have been idyllic when it opened in 1931, set against a pastoral backdrop of farmland and mountains. The museum was once one of the richest cultural repositories in the world, home to a collection of the most elegant antiquities from the Ashokan, Greek, Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Muslim periods.…