Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 5.3.2007

Biomass is burnt still more and more in Zlín region

There are still more and more towns and municipalities in Zlín region which use burning of biomass for heating. For example a substantial part of households in municipalities Hostětín and Roštím is supplied with ecological heat; also the steam-boiler plant in housing development Malé Pole in Slavičín burns renewable resources. Also in other places biomass is burnt in a smaller extent; also Zlín region strives for a change of heating of some of its buildings, as ČTK found out today.

MŽP does not like campaign of company Mountfield

At the turn of February and March this year the company trading with garden technique and equipment, Mountfield published in many dailies with nationwide action a series of advertisement articles prompting consumers to as fast purchase of motor garden technique, swimming baths and garden furniture as possible with an argument that price of these products will rise “in jump” from the May 2007 in connection with sort of “the newest ecological ideas of Brussels commissioner for environment”.

We do not want farmers

In our national interest is so that conditions for sale of land would stay for some time still as at present, the Minister of agriculture on behalf of ODS Petr Gandalovič asserts heroically at a meeting with representatives of our farmers in February. Thereby he meant a state when foreign entrepreneur can buy inland land only when he/she has lived for three years here and proves integrity and he/she can speak Czech. Immediately at next government negotiation the ODS heroism ended and national interest had to go aside.

Glaciologists will examine melting glacier in Greenland

In frame of the International Polar Year which is supported by UNO about 50 000 people will work in 228 scientific projects concerning the polar world. Swiss glaciologists will examine glaciers in Greenland, Swissinfo writes. Martin Lüthi, a glaciologist from a Federal Technological Institute in Zürich will go to examine the glacier Jakobshavn in west Greenland in half of May. “The most changes of world climate will come in next decades just from the polar areas”, Lüthi said for Swissinfo. “The polar areas are a cradle of all storms. If big changes happen, it will influence weather in the whole world”. Lüthi and his colleagues will survey by the help of GPS how the glacier shifts towards the sea. In last five years the speed of movement of the glacier has increased from one meter per hour to two meter per hour.

Source: Agris, 6.3.2007