It had closure by 2005 as part of its accession agreement with the EU (ED 10/09/99), but the timetable had recently been in doubt, according to media reports this week. Meanwhile, the Swedish government has set 31 May next year as a preliminary deadline for shutting the second and final reactor at the Barseb?ck nuclear [...]
DISTURBED that computer equipment, records, and means of access to operating funds of the Reserve were seized on 2 November 2004, by the Danube Transport Prosecutor’s Office at the request of Ukraine’s Ministry of Transport; CONCERNED that these actions appear to be in retaliation for the outspoken positions taken by Director Voloshkevych against the construction of [...]
“O eventuala poluare cu cianuri provocata de punerea in practica a proiectului de exploatare a aurului de la Rosia Montana – asemanatoare cu cea de acum cativa ani de pe Tisa – ar afecta, in afara de Romania, si Ungaria” se afirma in comunicatul remis MTI de catre ombudsmanul ungar.
New York had a subway around the turn of the century (around the time it also fielded a fleet of electric taxis), and all its major planning was designed to accommodate pedestrians, not cars. According to the report “Commuting, Non-Work Travel and the Changing City,” only a third of New York’s workers get to work [...]
The protocol will become legally binding on its 128 Parties on February 16 2005,” the UNFCCC said in a statement received here, released after Russia handed the document to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Nairobi. The Bonn-based U?FCCC, the offshoot of the 1992 Rio Summit, is Kyoto’s parent convention.
Russia will deposit the ratification instruments to the secretary general of the UN” Kofi Annan at the United Nationsoffices in Nairobi, where the Security Council is Thursday and Friday holding an extraordinary session on Sudan, a senior UN source said, asking not to be named.
n the Carpathian region there are the Danube river tributaries ? the Tisa, the Syret and the Prut rivers. NGOs in the Carpathian region ? ?Rutenia? (Uzhgorod , Agency of regional development (Rakhiv) ? took an active part in the ?Be an Artist of Danube? School Competition. In particular in Rakhiv region (Transcarpathians) the event [...]
Technical accident happened during the continued navigable canal construction through Bystroe estuary in the Danube reserve. Environmentalists warned about the danger of accidents, but officials were deaf to protests and warnings.
Two Greenpeace members chained themselves to the fencing in front of the seat of government in central Bucharest while several others unfurled two banners reading “Nastase, save Rosia Montana,” in reference to Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase. Greenpeace spokeswoman Ana-Maria Bogdan said the protestors were “brutally” dispersed by police.
Europe’s summer has again been hit by freak weather conditions, with heavy thunderstorms affecting several European countries. In Cornwall, on Britain’s western coast, floods caused buildings to collapse, while in southern France four people drowned after a sudden change in the weather led to powerful winds and massive waves. And these types of weather events [...]
