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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 10 million to steel company SC Donasid to help it upgrade its steel billet plant at Calarasi, south-east Romania, expanding production from a current 300,000 tons per year to its full potential of 450,000 tons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved extending 49% antidumping duties on Chinese exports into the EU of silicon to deliveries from South Korea, to head off rules of origin fraud. The action follows a European Commission inquiry that concluded Chinese exports were being routed illicitly via South Korea to avoid antidumping duties first imposed in 1995.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE FIRST real-data study on the shark fin trade has estimated that 38 million sharks are killed annually: significantly higher than the 10 million accepted by the UN, although lower than the 100 million of some rough estimates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THINK of Latin American mines, and political and industrial
relations instability springs to mind. Pictures of poncho’d Bolivian Amerindians demonstrating against poor conditions,
hurling rocks at robocops armed to the teeth….

The truth is that the mining industry often gets a bad rap in Latin America and, to be honest, it has often been run poorly, especially in environmental terms.…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen

THERE are high hopes in Greenland for oil wealth of North Sea dimensions as major oil companies embark on new exploration quests in Arctic conditions. This follows discoveries 15 years ago, when scientists found oil seepages at Greenland’s Nuussuaq peninsula and ever since reports have been made to the international oil sector of enormous deposits of fossil energy below the ice seas surrounding the huge ice-covered island.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has visited Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas producer, the latest initiative to boost gas supplies from north Africa. A meeting last week (Nov 30) of the Euro-Mediterranean Conference, in Tampere, Finland, uniting EU, north African and Levantine states, agreed to further integrate Euro-Mediterranean energy markets, developing common energy projects, priorities being set in 2007.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have ordered a freeze on catches of round-nose grenadier in the North Sea, including in Norwegian waters, saying catches in 2005-6 should match average annual catches in 1996-2003. It is one of a number of conservation-minded measures recently ordered by the EU Council of Ministers, one being a ban on catching and landing white sharks and basking sharks in any EU waters, the ban applying to non-EU and EU-flagged fleets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is preparing to lend US$25 million to modernise and expand Armenia’s Kapan mine, which has substantial copper, zinc, silver and gold reserves. The money would go to operator the Deno Gold Mining Company, controlled by Canada’s Dundee Precious Metals Inc.…