Fw: January 24, 2001 GNET Direct

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: : Eurotech Successfully Completes EKOR Acceptance Testing For DOE Nuclear

: Waste Marketplace

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: : FAIRFAX, VA, January 24, 2001 - EUROTECH Ltd. has announced that the

first

: EKOR product, EKOR Sealer, has successfully passed a rigorous testing

: program developed both to define the properties of this unique product and

: to showcase its performance.

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: : Company Receives Patent for Clean Energy Technology

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: : LITTLE ROCK, AR, January 24, 2001 - A new process that its developer

says

: can help produce clean energy, even from " dirty " but plentiful sources

such

: as high-sulfur coal and waste oils, has just had all of patent claims

: approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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: : Countries Seek Control of Aquatic Weed

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: : FT. LAUDERDALE, FL, January 24, 2001 - Although the aquatic weed

: water-hyacinth may be easy on the eyes, it is not so benign on the bodies

of

: water where it establishes itself. In fact, the water-hyacinth has become

: the worst floating aquatic weed in many tropical and subtropical parts of

: the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Africa.

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: : Lab Puts Old Technology to New Use

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: : ARGONNE, IL, January 24, 2001 - Scientists at Argonne National

Laboratory

: have found that by modifying a 30-year-old technology, they have developed

a

: promising solution to nuclear waste disposal at the Energy Department's

: Savannah River Site.

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: : World's Environment Ministers to Meet at UNEP Council Session

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: : NAIROBI, January 24, 2001 - Up to 100 Environment Ministers are expected

: to attend the 2nd Global Ministerial Environment Forum/21st session of the

: Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) from

: February 5 - 9 2001. The meeting will set UNEP's budget and work program

: and provide input to Earth Summit II, scheduled for South Africa in 2002.

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