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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE GREAT Lakes of Canada and the United States, in particular Lake Erie, suffered the highest levels of pollution in the sixties and seventies, attracting global attention and concern to urgently clean the waters that at their peak pollution levels actually caught fire.…

BY KATE REW
MANAGERS at Los Angeles International Airport, (LAX), are testing an unusual way of generating electricity – recycling food left over by its hungry, but distracted passengers. Their discarded burgers, chicken-bits, salads and tacos are taken to a waste-to-energy plant and electricity is fed in to the local power grid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in the European Union are unprepared for the introduction of single European currency notes and coins next January, even though they have a crucial role in spreading information among small businesses and community groups, the European Commission has claimed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONLINE bookseller giant Amazon.com, is stirring things up in the Canadian Internet book market, by announcing it will lower shipping costs for Canadian customers, effectively stiffening up competition for the future Chapters-Indigo combine, the country’s largest book retailer.…

KEITH NUTHALL
CONVERSE, the international athletic footwear and apparel brand has been launched in India by Planet Sports. It is known for its helium technology-equipped hi-tech performance footwear, sporty sandals, and the All Star Canvas range. Prices range from IND Rupees 600-2,000.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka
THE PRESIDENT of the Indian Footwear Components Manufacturers’ Association has asked the New Delhi government to set up a Rupees 1,000 million technology modernisation fund to help the sector “face international competition and gain confidence.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DALLAS based Hunt Oil Co. has taken over Chieftain International Inc., an Edmonton-based and Canadian-owned natural gas producer, with assets in the Gulf of Mexico, for CAN$915-million. Hunt is offering US$29 in cash for each Chieftain share and is to assume US$15-million of debt.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WITHIN a few years, the UK could be required to recycle or reuse up to 72 per cent of recoverable material from the industrial waste stream and up to 64 per cent from the domestic stream. At a minimum, the figures would be 56 per cent and 39 per cent respectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into state aid provided by the Spanish government for the restructuring of copper, gold and silver mining company Minas de Rio Tinto SAL, in Huelva.

In 2000, Madrid guaranteed loans of ESP 1,500 million, (Euro 9 million), which were linked to a restructuring plan to turn the company around.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO Canadian cigarette pack sleeve businesses, Bootiez and Cigarette Cover, have sold more than 2.5 million card covers to local shops across the country. Both companies have been doing a thriving business selling cigarette pack covers to smokers who prefer to look at frolicking kittens and bikini clad women instead of the diseased hearts and lungs that have been ordered to appear by Ottawa.…