The project includes a hazardous waste incinerator and is similar to a project the Ministry of Environment proposed several years ago. At the public meeting designed to allay local fears about the project’s impacts, local villager Georgi Binev commented to officials, “Why are you still lying to us? You’ve been showing us the same presentation for the last four years. Tell us about the dioxins!” Continue reading →

Repsol-YPF, the private Spanish oil company, said this week it expects to remove 90 percent of the oil remaining in the wreck. The rest is stuck on the tanker walls and eventually will be eaten away by bacteria.

The Prestige split apart in a storm off the Galicia coast and sank on Nov. 19, 2002, disgorging most of its 77,000 tons (20 million gallons) of thick, toxic fuel oil onto the beaches of northern Spain and southwestern France. It was Spain’s worst environmental disaster and was the eighth largest spill on record. Continue reading →

I’ll be posting updates to [url=http://www.greenpeace.org,]http://www.greenpeace.org,[/url] and will send you an email when the action starts.

To give you some idea of what I’m up against, an area of forest the size of Germany is in danger. It is disappearing at an unbelievable speed – 20 football pitches an hour. I see it happening day in, day out. Where once there was a forest with people, trees, parrots, monkeys and jaguars, now there’s just a bare field — cut down so multinational corporations can grow more soya for animal feed. I’m not going to let it be destroyed without resisting. And I know I’m not alone! Continue reading →

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded the grant July 21 to the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Water Management to modernize its network of laboratories.

As Romania prepares for membership in the European Union in 2007, it is introducing and enforcing new environmental laws, and the labs will help ensure compliance, according to the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

It’s worth mentioning that in the letter of ad interim Minister of international relations of Ukraine V. Yelchenko addressed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine V. Yanykovich he suggested: “with the aim to explain the justification of the position of Ukraine concerning the necessity of construction of navigation canal and to prevent the creation of negative image of our state at the international arena in this context we suggest: to authorize Ministry of environment, Ministry of transport, State committee on radio and TV to conduct necessary public awareness efforts among Mass Media”. Continue reading →

(MEWM) to develop a modernization plan for the Government of Romania?s network of environmental laboratories. As Romania edges closer to European Union (EU) membership in 2007, the country is introducing and enforcing a large body of new environmental law. The USTDA grant awarded today represents a continuation of the agency?s commitment to assist Romania in its effort to provide a cleaner, safer environment for all of its citizens. Continue reading →

Drinkable water is harmless for health when it completely corresponds to the national standards or to the recommendations of the World Health Organization. It should be mentioned that 80-95% of the underground waters used for drinking in RM do not correspond to the sanitary and hygienic norms. The specter of natural and artificial polluters is very large: nitrogen compounds, pesticides, selenium, sulfates, fluorine, etc. Continue reading →

That important fact has left some critics of the World Bank, the largest financier of antipoverty programs in developing countries, dissatisfied, and they have begun throwing down an essential challenge. It is not enough, they say, just to measure how many miles of roads are built, schools constructed or microcredit loans provided. You must also measure whether those investments actually help poor people live longer, more prosperous lives. Continue reading →