Romania: Waste Spill - Feb 2000 Updates

Local communities in the Tisza River basin have recently been confronted with several serious toxic spills and ecological disasters along the river. Regional scientists, within a NATO Science for...

The Hungarian government filed a lawsuit on 27 April against the Austrian-Romanian company responsible for a major cyanide leak last year that poisoned fish and flora in three rivers, AP reported...

A law firm representing the Hungarian government has demanded in a letter that the "Aurul" mining company in Romania transfer 29 billion forints ($100 million) to the Hungarian state treasury within...

December 2000 FOREWORD This Report constitutes the response of the International Task Force for Assessing the Baia Mare Accident (the Baia Mare Task Force or 'BMTF') to the tasks given to us by...

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Brussels, 23.10.2000 - COM(2000) 664 final COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION 1. INTRODUCTION The Danube pollution caused by a cyanide spill following a damburst...

STRASBOURG, 29.09.2000 - The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly today stressed the need for coordinated European policies to prevent accidents causing environmental damage and ease their...

By David Greedy, Special to The Christian Science Monitor The Tisza River has been called the "heart and soul" of Hungary. Petofi Sándor, the country's most-beloved poet and author of the national...

Visiting Australian Deputy Environmental Minister Roger Beale on 23 June told Hungarian Environmental Minister Ferenc Ligetvari and government commissioner Janos Gonczy that his country is offering...

Press Release IHA/706 GENEVA, 6 June (OCHA) -- The international ministerial conference on crisis management that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is convening on 15 and...

By Jeremy Bransten Gold mine operators do not have industrywide standards on how to handle the toxic cyanide they use. Last week, the United Nations Environment Program, or UNEP, hosted a conference...

For use by the media only; not an official document. Jointly issued by UNEP and OCHA Geneva, April 19, 2000: According to a report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme and the...

A combination of design faults, inadequate operating conditions and bad weather contributed to the 30 January cyanide spill in Romania, according to a just released report from the United Nations...

Press Release ECE/ENV/00/4 Geneva, 18 April 2000 Date is set for the first meeting of its Parties The Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents will come into effect tomorrow,...

Introduction On January 30th 2000, the dam containing toxic waste material from the Baia Mare Aurul gold mine in North Western Romania burst and released 100,000 cubic meters of waste water, heavily...

By Sandor Peto BUDAPEST, April 9 (Reuters) - Water levels fell in eastern Hungary on Sunday after the worst floods in years, but work continued at full speed to strengthen dams amid warnings of fresh...

The Environmental Ministers of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Hungary met in Budapest on 3 April to sign an agreement on preventing future transnational ecological disasters. The four countries will...