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HIGH NOON FOR THE FUTURE OF ASBESTOS IN A TOWN CALLED ASBESTOS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TOWN of Asbestos in French-speaking Québec, Canada – named after the mineral that underpins its economy – is waiting to see whether its provincial government will approve a Canadian dollar CAD58 million (US dollar USD56 million) loan enabling an underground mine to tap an immense deposit.…
DENMARK PLANS MAJOR TOBACCO TAXATION INCREASES
BY GERARD O’DWYER
COMPARED to its more health-conscious neighbours, Denmark has for many years been a comparatively lethargic member of the Nordic club when it comes to imposing controls and legislative restrictions on the sale and use of tobacco products.
However, Denmark’s perceived neutrality towards the tobacco sector may be about to change under Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT) ambitious targets, set down on April 5 under his centre-right government’s Vision 2020 strategy.…
EU FOOD SALES PROMOTION GOES GREEN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST major food product promotion programme financed by the European Union (EU) is focusing heavily on healthy foodstuffs – with organic, fruit and vegetable products getting the lion’s share. The European Commission has approved 19 one-to-three year publicity programmes in 14 member states (Austria, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain) which will promote sales in the EU.…
IT'S EASY TO GET IN TROUBLE IN EUROPE'S WATER SECTOR
BY DAVID HAWORTH,PAUL RIGG,LEE ADENDOORF,MAKKI MARSEILLES,E BLAKE BERRY,FLORENCE LABEDAYS,SYMON ROSS and KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities are maybe used to getting bad press. After all, we all need water, and we need and want it to be clean. When a water supplier fails, it is easy to make complaints and see them amplified in newspapers, television, radio and the Internet.…
EUROSTAT REPORTS WIDE DIVERGENCE OF FOOD PRICES ACROSS THE EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) may be legally a single market, food prices range widely across its 27 member states. The most recent survey of 500 comparable products by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, shows last year (2009) the price of a comparable basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages was more than twice as high in the most expensive EU country than the cheapest.…
IT'S EASY TO GET IN TROUBLE IN EUROPE'S WATER SECTOR
BY DAVID HAWORTH,PAUL RIGG,LEE ADENDOORF,MAKKI MARSEILLES,E BLAKE BERRY,FLORENCE LABEDAYS,SYMON ROSS and KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities are maybe used to getting bad press. After all, we all need water, and we need and want it to be clean. When a water supplier fails, it is easy to make complaints and see them amplified in newspapers, television, radio and the Internet.…
EU ROUND UP - EU HELPS USA IN GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is helping the USA deal with the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Coordinated by the EU emergency response group, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), the EU will send oil skimmers and oil spill experts.…
IS THE FUTURE OF ENERGY UNDER THE FROST?
BY MARK ROWE and GERARD O’DWYER
CONCERNS over climate change often refer to the potential thawing of the Arctic permafrost, where large-scale releases of methane could significantly accelerate global warming. Yet at the same time, governments and energy companies are weighing up the potentially lucrative reserves of methane lying below the permafrost that covers the Siberian continental shelf, and extends up to 1,000 kilometres into the Arctic Ocean.…
AUTO SCIENTISTS USE MOTH EYES TO DEVELOP NON-REFLECTIVE WINDSHIELDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT’S tough being a moth. Searching for food as dusk, they are prey to greedy predators – birds, frogs, lizards, cats… So nature has designed their eyes so that they do not reflect light, giving away their position.…
POLES FACE ECJ ACTION OVER PHARMACEUTICAL CONTROLS
BY LEAH GERMAIN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to take the Polish government to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) claiming it is breaking key European Union (EU) pharmaceutical market approval controls. Brussels is upset that Poland allows non-authorised medicinal products to be sold that are similar to an approved product, just because they are cheaper.…