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UNDERSEA MINING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS BEING DEVELOPED AS COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS LOOM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPACE maybe called the final frontier on TV, but for mining industry and environmentalists, bragging rights must surely go to the ocean deeps – the most inaccessible and unexplored regions on Earth. Speculation has been continuing for decades about the potential mineral riches on ocean floors, however there have always been four obvious problems about extracting them: noone really knows what is down there; the expense of prospecting for such minerals could be prohibitive; there is yet no comprehensive internationally agreed legal regime covering potential work in international waters; and there are risks it could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems that are barely understood.…
INDIA USA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT STILL FACES ROCKY POLITICAL ROAD AHEAD
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
THE SUCCESSFUL completion of Indo-US Nuclear Deal continues to be in the realm of speculation as the stubborn communist allies of the ruling coalition government in New Delhi and the hostile rightwing opposition in the parliament have further hardened their stand.…
UNDERSEA MINING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS BEING DEVELOPED AS COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS LOOM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPACE maybe called the final frontier on TV, but for mining industry and environmentalists, bragging rights must surely go to the ocean deeps – the most inaccessible and unexplored regions on Earth. Speculation has been continuing for decades about the potential mineral riches on ocean floors, however there have always been four obvious problems about extracting them: noone really knows what is down there; the expense of prospecting for such minerals could be prohibitive; there is yet no comprehensive internationally agreed legal regime covering potential work in international waters; and there are risks it could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems that are barely understood.…
POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY BIOFUELS CAUSING GLOBAL RETHINK ON PRODUCTION PROCESSES
BY MARK ROWE
WHICHEVER way you look, the oil and gas sector is investing in biofuels. The larger energy companies – driven by an eye for a new and potentially lucrative market as well as shareholder concern and governmental and international political pressure – are investigating both first and second generation biofuels.…
ARCTIC NATIONS STRUGGLE FOR ENERGY RIGHTS
BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen
REPUTEDLY immense riches looming below the glaciated surface of the Arctic Ocean have come within human reach because climate change is gradually thawing the world’s previously frozen-stiff polar regions. But this consequence of a milder physical climate has provoked tension between the countries with an Arctic Ocean, creating echoes of the long defunct cold war, and indicating a long and tough legal and political fight for what could be an important addition to the Earth’s undiscovered hydrocarbon reserves.…
EU CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS MOVE TOWARDS CREATION OF EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXPERT group including the Federation of European Publishers is pressing towards the launch next November of a prototype European digital library, giving access online to records of Europe’s cultural treasures. The aim is to include digitised versions of at least 2 million digital books, photographs, maps, archival records, and film material from Europe’s libraries, archives and museums.…
IRAN PAINT INDUSTRY THRIVES, DESPITE THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR CONFRONTATION
BY MARK ROWE and PAUL COCHRANE
IT is something of an understatement to describe Iran as a peripheral player on the international paint scene. The country’s share of the world market in paints and varnishes in 2007 is, according to research analysts Gobi International, just 0.5%.…
IRAN AND VENEZUELA DEVELOP ANTI-AMERICAN OIL AND GAS AXIS
BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas
FOLLOWING the late-November OPEC summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Tehran to discuss joint ventures over oil refining and then chuckle with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over the weakened US dollar.…
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY REGULATORS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN EMERGING FOOD HEALTH RISKS
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
ONLY a small fraction of food induced illnesses are reported to the public health authorities because most cases are sporadic and outside recognised outbreaks, Robert Tauxe, of the Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA, told a key Brussels environmental health meeting.…
UNECE ISSUES RECOMMENDATION TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS ON FIGHTING PRODUCT PIRACY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has advised national governments to use their existing market monitoring services to detect unusual trends maybe indicating organised trades in counterfeit goods. The UNECE said this would "entail minimum additional costs and delays in existing market surveillance activities and would be a very effective addition to existing measures to combat counterfeiting".…