Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 1.7. 2008.

Tradition of pickling cucumbers will be renewed in Znojmo this year

„Znojemské okurky“ (Znojmo cucumbers) will be conserved again after five years in Znojmo. The first glasses with traditional kishaws should appear in shops at first in two weeks. The tradition was renewed thanks to a group of enthusiasts which have endeavoured to return production in Znojmo for several years from where the firm Hamé shifted it in 2003. „This year it will be dealt with a testing operation with a production about eight to ten tons“, a chairman of the cooperative Znojemská okurka Zbyšek Dřevojan said to ČTK today. If cucumbers make right on the market, the cooperative is going to invest in a new canning factory hundreds of million crowns.

Vanes under Klínovec: People lost their fight with authorities

A fight against three wind power stations in sight of houses in Loučná pod Klínovcem, one of the first wind farms in the Czech Republic, comes to a failure of their opponents. Municipalities and citizen associations which disliked a permission of the region Ústí to build the vanes did not succeed in courts with an action against this decision. Now their action was refused by the Supreme Administrative Court. Vanes in Loučná pod Klínovcem with operation 1,8 MW, operated now by a company Green Lines, were the first project which has invoked heated disputes on whether wind power station should be built in Kruš né mountains.

Vine-growers emit filth. Municipalities pay fines

The Czech Inspection of Environment imposes fines in South Moravia. It has already punished several viticultural municipalities because of their sewage disposal plants emit filth. The blame in on the side of small vine-growers. When a couple of them wash out barrels in the same time, sewage disposal plants go bust. For example Dolní Dunajovice has to pay a forty-thousand fine now. “The sewage disposal plant was not able to catch a such big extent of pollution which vine-growers produce here now”, Jana Pokludová, a head of department of water protection of the Czech Inspection of Environment in Brno confirmed it.

Švihov in Klatovy region started unique project for bio-waste sorting

In the district Pilsen a unique project focused on reduction of a share of bio-waste on dumps was started in Švihov in Klatovy region. “The town placed special community compost facilities in a selected area of settlement development in which people will throw away bio-waste for free, for example rests of fruit and vegetable, dry flowers, leaves, grass and so on. The projects should bring a significant savings of costs for waste disposal and it should contribute to protection of environment”, Martina Kašparová from a municipal office said to ČTK.