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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of exemptions from the European Union’s (EU) new energy taxation directive have been proposed by the European Commission for the eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in May (barring Cyprus).

They would be added to the already long list of exemptions negotiated by existing Member States that prompted EU internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein to liken the legislation to “Gruyere cheese”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Commission official has claimed the European Research Area’s goal of coordinating EU scientists has been achieved for nuclear science. Brussels’ nuclear fission and radiation protection unit head Hans Forsström claimed this cooperation had already been forged through Euratom.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has developed plans to lend Norway’s Statoil Euro 200 million to help it develop the North Sea Ormen Lange gas field as a key supplier of natural gas to Britain, which should become a net importer of natural gas from 2007.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A PUBLIC awareness campaign sponsored by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) – a Ottawa government agency – warning savers that mutual funds are not covered by the federal deposit insurance has sparked a row in the Canadian financial services sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STENCH from liquid waste is rarely pleasant, especially for nearby residential areas, so technology from a European Union (EU) funded project will be welcome, if its developers deliver a claim it can reduce such disgusting odours by 95 per cent.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ADDING Vitamin E to the diets of turkeys may reduce the instances of people contracting listeriosis, the potentially deadly bacterial foodborne illness. Scientists from the United States’ Agricultural Research Service have found that supplementing turkeys’ diets with the vitamin stimulates their immune responses, helping them clear the gut of the microorganism that causes the disease.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have discovered ways of protecting live chickens from salmonella, campylobacter and other pathogens that cause foodborne illness. Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Arkansas have used a concept called competitive exclusion, where probiotics (beneficial live bacteria), are fed to hatchling chickens.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN research has suggested that having a strong sweet tooth may indicate an increased risk of developing alcoholism. A study performed by doctors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, found college students’ whose fathers were alcoholics, showed an unusually strong preference for sugary tastes, compared with students with no family history of substance abuse.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ESTABLISHMENT of an International Foundation for the Law of the Sea has taken place at Hamburg, 21 years after the agreement of the United Nations Convention on the Law for the Sea. The Foundation will promote research, training and publications on maritime law, supporting the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, also based in Hamburg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

MILLIONS of fish die annually at the hands of ageing power station water outfalls, when new technology could save many of their lives, marine biologists say.

Dr Peter Henderson, of Britain’s Pisces Conservation Ltd, says whiting, sprat, cod, pout, rockling, stickleback, pipefish, sea-trout and salmon are among the species at risk; seals have died too, although not for many years.…