Environment

Mining firm wary of SC environment code (Sun Star)

20 May 2008

KORONADAL CITY -- Is foreign-backed mining firm Sagittarius Mines Inc. packing up if the Provincial Board (PB) of South Cotabato approves the environment code that prohibits open pit method?

EU to punish environment law breakers (Euro Observer)

20 May 2008

20.05.2008 - 17:40 CET | By Renata Goldirova EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Activities seriously damaging environment will soon become a crime across the 27-nation EU, as the bloc's main institutions have agreed on a piece of law harmonising what constitutes a severe environmental offence and obliging national governments to apply criminal penalties to punish them.

India, Pakistan talk peace in 'new democratic environment' (New Kerala)

20 May 2008

By Manish Chand and Muhammad Najeeb, Islamabad, May 20 : Days after bomb blasts in Jaipur killed over 60 people and firing across the Kashmir border, India Tuesday asked Pakistan to jointly fight terrorism "amidst a new democratic environment" in Islamabad even as foreign secretaries of the two countries resumed peace talks in a "friendly and constructive atmosphere".