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STORM CLOUDS LOOM FOR AMERICA'S NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AS OBAMA PRESIDENCY LOOMS
BY SARAH BROWN
WHEN US President-elect Barack Obama takes office this January 20, the transition of power may halt plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and could impede the progress of new nuclear energy development across America.…
US OIL REFINERY INDUSTRY LEARNS TO DEAL WITH HURRICANES, AND IS STAYING PUT FOR NOW
BY LUCY JONES
ALMOST 20% of the United States’ oil refining capacity was shut after Hurricane Ike slammed into the Gulf Coast in September.
The effects were felt immediately. In Texas, petrol prices spiked around
US$5 a gallon and that is assuming you could find any fuel.…
MEXICO BREAKS WTO RULES WITH OLIVE OIL DUTIES SAYS WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO is breaking global trade rules by imposing countervailing duties on olive oil exported from the European Union, a World Trade Organisation panel has ruled.
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OPEN SKIES DEAL NEGOTIATED BETWEEN EU AND MEXICO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve an open skies deal negotiated between the European Commission and Mexico. The agreement would offer equally liberal access to EU and Mexican air carriers flying to and from airports in Mexico and the EU.…
Europe:Young European scientists promise a bright future
By Alan Osborn
Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…
SWEDISH AND AMERICAN SCIENTISTS SAY MARINE DEAD ZONES ON THE INCREASE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EXTENT of marine dead zones – coastal waters almost totally deprived of oxygen and life – has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s claim Swedish and American scientists. Professors Rutger Rosenberg of Sweden’s University of Goteborg, and Robert Diaz, of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, found more than 400 dead zones globally, ranging from expansive ones in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, to small estuary zones.…
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING OF GOODS PACT DEBATED IN GENEVA BY TOP WORLD POWERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POWERFUL international bloc is debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement insisting upon cooperation over fighting fake drinks products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea in Geneva.…
BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…
EUROPE: HE ROLE CONSIDERED IN GLOBAL CONTEXT AT IAU MEETING
BY ALAN OSBORN
As a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders you would find it hard to better the 4-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities (IAU).…
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING PACT DEBATED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of influential countries are debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement, fighting fake food and drink products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea.…