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	<description>The Estonian economy and business life in brief, 1998 until now. News from various public institutions and the press. Brilliant Fixer OÜ is a company, which offers B2B networking services in Estonia. Besides the contact search, the company is engaged in public relations and marketing.</description>
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		<title>Estonia launched large-scale shrimp fishing in Barents Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonian ships last year launched large-scale shrimp fishing in the Barents Sea and the volumes of catch have been growing this year in the catch area where no quota in terms of amounts have been set.
Estonian ships are fishing shrimp in two areas in the Barents Sea. One of the areas is in the Spitsbergen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3148&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romania picks up Estonia’s idea for National Garbage Collection Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the &#8220;Let&#8217;s Do It Estonia 2008&#8243; campaign, NGOs in Romania are preparing for a campaign in which volunteers will collect illegally dumped or littered garbage across the country in May 2010.
The Romanian NGO&#8217;s behind the initiative have named it &#8220;Let&#8217;s Do It Romania.&#8221;
The initiative&#8217;s website at www.letsdoitromania.ro says the action was inspired by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3135&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen climate agreement to have positive effect on economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, the Copenhagen climate agreement will have a positive effect on the economy as well, because the security of investors to utilise renewable energy on a wider scale will increase and, as a result, the need for state benefits will decrease in the long run.
“Today, security for investment into renewable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3070&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia has 85m tons of emissions credits to sell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government decided at its Cabinet sitting on Thursday to sell Estonia&#8217;s unused pollution credits on the international market and said that the amount available for sale was 85.19 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The price of carbon credits on the international market has been around 14-15 euros a ton in the recent month.
Prime Minister [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2872&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia’s grain growing area 6 pct bigger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The size of the growing area of grain in Estonia this year is 328 800 hectares, which marks an increase of 6% compared with 2008, Statistics Estonia said.
The growing area of rye totals 65 500 hectares, of winter wheat 15 400 hectares and of summer wheat 78 300 hectares. Barley is grown on 141 500 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2791&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Private forest owners can use support</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Already for the second year, forest owners receive support for private forest land located in Natura 2000 area through Private Forest Centre; in 2009, the divided sum of money will reach 82 million kroons. Counted together with other support from the EU, the private forest owners can apply for a total of more than 100 million kroons. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2797&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Landfills failing to comply with environmental requirements to be closed</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/landfills-failing-to-comply-with-environmental-requirements-to-be-closed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Waste Act, all landfills which fail to comply with the requirements shall be closed for waste deposit by 16 July 2009 and be conditioned by 16 July 2013. As of now, the last ten landfills in Estonia failing to comply with the requirements have been closed: Oru, Käina, Sillamäe, Sõmeru, Adiste, Kudjape, Aardlapalu, Valga, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2802&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia&#8217;s opinion on Nord Stream environmental impact assessment</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/the-ministry-of-the-environment-presented-estonias-opinion-on-nord-stream-environmental-impact-assessment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 8 June, the Ministry of the Environment presented Estonia&#8217;s position to eight countries pointing out problems and shortcomings in the Nord Stream environmental impact assessment (EIA) report.
&#8220;Both the Espoo and national EIA reports are very voluminous and contain much material, however, several presumed impacts have been insufficiently analysed nor is there enough evidence and justifications [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2799&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11 000 gathered for brainstorming on May1</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/11-000-gathered-for-brainstorming-on-may1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 10:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 11 000 people took part in the Minu Eesti (My Estonia) brainstorming endeavor on Friday that saw people all over the country come together for a &#8220;thinking bee&#8221; to find ways how to make life better and increase social cohesion. Organisers said that the event can be considered a success.
The number of &#8220;thinkinghouses&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2423&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonians recycle more than EU average</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest Eurostat study, residents of Estonia recycle 34% of household waste, which places it among the top EU nations in terms of recycling. The average recycling rate for the 27 member countries was 22%. Germany recycles 46%, Latvia 13%, Lithuania 2% and Finland 26% of household waste.
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