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BY PHILIP FINE, in Quebec City

BELUGA whales in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River have the highest cancer rates of any wild animal in the world, according to a researcher looking at 17 years of deaths among the white-backed cetaceans. Université de Montréal Professor Daniel Martineau studied carcasses of 129 belugas and, among his adult subjects, recorded a 27 per cent rate of cancer.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THERE is a clear moral argument that individuals and companies should nurture the Earth’s precious resources. But such a stance also makes profound economic sense since it reduces a company’s waste and improves efficiency. This is particularly the case for a tobacco company where every stage of the production, distribution and consumption of tobacco products has environmental implications.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE BEST selling international brand, Lucky Strike, launched in 1871, is older than BAT and its eye-catching bull’s eye remains one of the oldest trademarks in the world. It is sold in some 90 countries and is BAT’s premier global brand for the key ASU30 segment of the market, particularly with urban smokers.…

KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS have been made by the Nicaraguan and German governments for the trade in two hardwood species to be controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). These species are, respectively, big-leaf mahogany (also known as Brazilian mahogany) and the tree-of-life (also known as pockwood or sonora guaiacum).…

BY MARK ROWE
THE ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group, Europe’s second largest oil company by sales, will decide next year on the location of what will be the world’s biggest natural gas-to-liquids plant. Malaysia, Argentina and Iran and are understood to be leading contenders for the US$1billion project, which will produce 75,000 barrels a day of kerosene, diesel and other fuels and is due to start operation in 2006.…

BY MARK ROWE
JIMMI Rembiszewski looks upon the transformation of Dunhill with some pride. “I was told that once a brand is in decline you may as well give up,” said BAT’s marketing director. “We have turned it around without reducing price and it’s enjoying an enormous revival.”…

Keith Nuthall
AN ICELANDIC drinks importer could win compensation from the Iceland government, after the European Free Trade Area Court found that Reykjavik had broken the rules of the European Economic Area, (of which Iceland is a part), by maintaining its alcohol importation monopoly until December 1995.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation boss Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland has presented international football federation FIFA with her Director General’s Award for opposing tobacco use, following the banning of smoking and cigarette advertising at this year’s World Cup. Previous recipients of the award have included the King of Thailand and the current Foreign Minister of South Africa.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN oil companies have criticised a recently passed bill in the US Senate that would set a floor price for Alaska gas, which could spark a trade dispute between Canada and America. Ron Brenneman, CEO of Petro Canada said: “… that represents a form of subsidy for gas from one particular source in north America.…