What have we learned from BSE calamity? South Korea's long-delayed agreement to resume importing Canadian beef later this year provides a sobering end point for a painful, costly lesson in crisis management. [News Source]

Alberta renewable-energy projects get boost from CCEMC. A firm with innovative technology in processing animal byproducts and other organic residue now sent to landfill sites will receive $10 million in aid from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. for its $31.8-million Lacombe biorefinery. [News Source]

South Korea reopens door to Canadian beef imports. South Korea announced on Tuesday the lifting of the eight-year old ban on Canadian beef imports. [News Source]

BSE-fighting ‘biorefinery’ gets $10-million assist from climate fund. A technology that turns organic waste into something safe and reusable, part of a $31.8-million project that aims to cut methane-gas emissions from landfill sites, received $10 million Tuesday from the provincial Climate change and Emissions Management Corp. [News Source]

Alberta biorefinery $10M closer to repurposing organic waste. It has taken 14 years of research and trials, but an Alberta-developed technology that turns organic waste — including infectious proteins and other micro-organisms — into something safe and reusable took a $10-million step forward Tuesday. [News Source]

Korea to lift import ban on Canadian beef. Korea agreed to import Canadian beef products in spite of a recent outbreak of mad cow disease there with the first shipment expected late this year. In return, Canada is set to drop its complaint with the World Trade Organization. [News Source]

The Spam factory’s dirty secret. First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned. [News Source]