Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 23.10. 2006

Huntsmen can shoot herons

These birds are able to fish out almost all trout populations in small streams. The section of environment of municipality hall in Meziříčí accorded a permission to shoot twenty grey herons in shooting grounds of the local organization of Czech Fishing Union. It did it by request of fishermen to whom herons do damages. “Especially in small streams in summer period they are able to fish out almost all trout populations. Shooing of them has only short-term effectivity”, the officer Eliška Gášková explains the decision which should come in force till the end of November.

Olomouc region will contribute to seminars on EU subventions

Olomouc district office will contribute to the regional agrarian chamber with a half a million crowns for the project of information center for development of agriculture and countryside. A part of the projects are workshops on the topic receiving of subventions from European funds. Petr Polášek, the regional councilman, said it to journalists. The project is about to help to agrarian sphere to prepare projects for new planning period of the EU in 2007 to 2013.

Vienna has the biggest bio-mass power station in Europe

The biggest European power station processing bio-mass was opened in these days in the southern outskirts of Austrian metropolis Vienna. The plant supplies 48 000 households with electric power and 11 000 ones with heat. Costs for building of an incineration plant and a power station in Vienna area Simmering were 52 million euro (almost 1,5 milliard CZK). The main advantage of bio-mass burning is relatively small amount of emissions. A comparable power station for mazut would produce yearly roughly by 144 000 tons of carbon dioxide more. The amount of pollution is the same as it would arise in burning of corresponding amount of wood in a forest. Viennese electric power burns 190 000 tons of wooden chips in a year.

Office says: Price decreases. However, bread will rise in price

Price of bread has fallen, the statistic office announces. But regarding this year’s harvest it is dealt only with a temporary state. According to investigation of the Czech Statistic Office white bread has fallen in price by three and half crowns to less than 40 crowns per kilo. However, this year’s low harvest of food cereals, both in the Czech Republic and abroad, hand in hand with increase of demand for agricultural raw materials due to production of bio-fuels will sooner or later end in practice in a growth of consumer prices of bakery products. According to bakers there are many reasons for it. Except a significant increase of prices of agricultural raw materials also growing prices of energies, increase of minimal wage, and other growing costs. That’s why, according to Stanislav Musil, the chairman of Entrepreneurial Bakers and Confectioners Union, prices of bread and pastry has to grow.