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January 28, 1997
FROM GREENPEACE, Greenbase Project

<<< TOXICS >>>

  2  Europe Information Services January  28, 1997  GREENPEACE
EXHORTS GERMANY TO FINANCE REPATRIATION OF ITS WASTE. Greenpeace
has urged the Government in Bonn to finance the repatriation of 36
containers of German toxic waste stored in the port of Beirut since

<<< NUCLEAR POWER >>>

  3  Taiwan plans first nuke waste shipment to N.Korea Alice Hung
TAIPEI, Jan 28 (Reuter) - Taiwan and North Korea on Tuesday forged
ahead with preparations to ship some 60,000 barrels of low-level
Taiwan nuclear waste to the Stalinist state despite escalating

<<< NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY >>>

  4  01/27 Canada-US Bombings TORONTO (AP) American bomber crews
twice have exploded nuclear weapons over Canadian territory,
according to a new study by a Canadian military historian. The
bombs were dumped and detonated in separate incidents in 1950 after

<<< OCEANS >>>

  5  Europe Environment January  28, 1997 SMALL FARMERS CALL FOR
BAN ON SALMON GROWTH HORMONE The European Farmers' Coordination has
called upon the European Commission to ban the use of
"somatosalmon", a growth hormone used in salmon farming. A

  6  Business Information Wire Monday, January 27, 1997 Crisis
looming in lobster fishery FREDERICTON (CP) _ Consumer appetite and
commercial greed may be creating a crisis in the East Coast lobster
fishery. There are unsettling signs the population of the upscale

<<< OZONE >>>

  7 Europe Information Services January  28, 1997 A COMMUNITY
POSITION ON THE  OZONE  LAYER BEFORE MID-FEBRUARY. The European
Union must forward proposals for amending and adjusting the
Montreal Protocol on  ozone -depleting substances by mid-February.

  8 Thailand Bans CFC Use in Home Refrigerators BANGKOK (Jan. 28)
XINHUA - Thailand will ban the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in
all household refrigerators and spray products, effective next
month. The Council of Economic Ministers ruled at a meeting on

<<< ATMOSPHERE >>>

  9 Environment & Development Bulletin: Africa-Climate KADOMA,
Zimbabwe (PANA, 01/27/97) - Projected diminishing rains in
sub-Sahara Africa will likely harm man, the ecology, reduce food
production and shut down dams, a Zimbabwean government official has

<<< ENERGY >>>

 10 ENVIRONMENT:  HIGHER GAS PRICES MEANS MORE TREES QUITO, (Jan.
26) IPS - A government move to partially eliminate subsidies for
the production of domestic gas has had a severe effect on the
environment as more people in Ecuador are using wood as fuel, which

<<< TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY >>>

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 11 GABON-ENVIRONMENT: NGOS WANT ECO-LABEL STRIPPED LIBREVILLE,
(Jan. 26) IPS Five environmental non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) are furious over the decision by an ecological watchdog to
certify as environmentally sound the Gabon operations of a German

<<GP>>
 12 Broadcast News Monday, January 27, 1997 Endangered
Species-Hearing VANCOUVER A chorus of no's have greeted a
parliamentary committee in Vancouver holding a hearing on a new
Endangered Species Act. Greenpeace is against the bill, saying it

<<< BIOTECHNOLOGY >>>

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 13 Nestle shrugs off Greenpeace soy protest FRANKFURT, Jan 28
(Reuter) - <Nestle Deutschland AG <NESG.F>> on Tuesday said a
protest by environmental group Greenpeace over the use of
genetically modified soybeans in food products would not change

 14 Agence France Presse (English)  Monday, January 27, 1997
Finance EU reacted to economic pressure on genetically-modified
imports BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (AFP) - The European Commission authorised
imports of genetically modified maize from the United States

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  15 Protests resume against genetically modified food Peter
Blackburn BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuter)-Protesters demonstrated in
front of multinational food companies in nine European countries on
Tuesday as the environmental group Greenpeace reignited its

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