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UNEP PROBES OIL SECTOR POLLUTION IN NIGERIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE environmental assessment of oil-production impacted sites is being undertaken in Nigeria’s Niger Delta by the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme. This follows a request by the Nigerian government peace initiative in Ogoniland.…
NUCLEAR SECURITY BOOSTED IN AFRICA WITH EUROPEAN AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECURITY of nuclear power installations may be a priority in terrorism-fearing rich countries, but not in poorer states, with many other problems. But it is equally important of course: nuclear accidents, sabotage and terror attacks are devastating wherever they occur.…
EU ROUND UP - EU INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENTS PREPARE FOR BATTLE OVER ENERGY LIBERALISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states and the European Commission are squaring up ahead of a political battle this autumn over anticipated energy liberalisation proposals. A letter from France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovakia has been written to the Commission stating their firm opposition to comprehensive energy unbundling in anticipated proposed European Union (EU) legislation.…
IFC BACKS NIGERIA PETROCHEMICAL PRIVATISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is backing Indorama International Finance’s purchase of 75% control of Nigeria’s state-owned Elem Petrochemical Company by securing US$155 million in investment. The IFC will provide US$75 itself and is generating US$80 from commercial lenders.…
WEST AFRICA REGIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION STARTS WORK IN EARNEST
BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S had a somewhat laborious beginning but at long last it seems that the West African regional body for fighting money laundering – formally known as the Groupe Inter-gouvernemental d’Action contre le Blanchiment en Afrique (GIABA) – is ready to begin operations in earnest.…
MILITARY OFFERS NURSES UNORTHODOOX PATH TO CAREER FULFILLMENT
BY DEIRDRE MASON
IN an era when military intervention has been given a bad name through the Iraq morass, serving with the army, navy or air force might not be the immediate choice of many nurses as a career path which helps the needy.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION NAMES MEDICINE COUNTERFEITING HOTSPOTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has highlighted countries with particularly significant counterfeiting and piracy of medicinal products. Following 290 replies from businesses, trade associations and diplomatic missions, covering 63 countries, its survey report named Egypt as a real problem zone, criticising the December 2004 approval of 850 local copies of pharmaceuticals "without generic companies having to "prove the efficiency and safety of the copy".…
INDIA SELLS EXCESS OIL REFIINING CAPACITY TO OIL-PARCHED WEST
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
"REFINERY Process Outsourcing" or simply RPO is an exciting buzzword in the otherwise hard-pressed Indian petroleum industry, as the term represents newly found and highly profitable venture of operating refineries to fulfil surging international demand.…
EU ROUND UP - DIMAS LEAKS EU CARBON CAPTURE LAW PLANS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has unveiled European Commission plans to next year launch comprehensive legislation boosting effective carbon capture and storage.
The laws would remove legal barriers impeding research and development into this environmental technology and would also lay down rules on liability, for instance, if stored CO2 leached into the environment.…
NIGERIA LAUNCHED FIRST KYOTO PROTOCOL PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NIGERIA has launched its first project generating carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism: the construction of an efficient 120MW gas-fired power plant. This will boost unreliable power supplies in Aba, southern Nigeria, so that dirty on-site diesel generators are abandoned.…