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March 19, 1998
FROM GREENPEACE, Greenbase Project

<<< TOXICS >>>

  2 Bayer to build new $1.5 billion plant in Texas TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 18
(Reuters)  German chemical and drug maker Bayer Ag said Wednesday it will
build a new chemical plant in Baytown, Texas, after abandoning plans to
build the facility in Taiwan, because of political opposition there.

  3 TASS March  19, 1998 South Korea concerned over toxic waste shipped to
North Korea BYLINE: By Vladimir Kutakhov DATELINE:    The South Korean
Environment Ministry has demanded explanations from Japan in connection with
recent reports that Japanese companies have transported toxic industrial

<<< NUCLEAR POWER >>>


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  4  Protesters block exit from German nuclear plant BONN, March 19
(Reuters) - Dozens of anti-nuclear protesters blocked the exit from a power
station in southern Germany on Thursday to prevent a controversial shipment
of nuclear waste across Germany. Demonstrators sat in the road outside the

  5 Agence France Presse March  19, 1998  Norway complains that British
nuclear  plant  polluting  seafood: report DATELINE: LONDON, March 19
 Nordic officials have lodged an official complaint with the
British government that  nuclear  waste from a power plant in

  6 Deutsche Presse-Agentur March  19, 1998 Riot police protect
controversial German  nuclear  transport DATELINE: Bonn   Thousands of
German riot police were gearing up Thursday for a huge security operation to
guard the controversial transport of  nuclear  waste to a depot in  northern
Germany.

  7   March 19, 1998 NATION  THAILAND  Editorial/ Nuclear  shipments put
world at risk  The refusal by a Japanese governor to grant permission for a
ship to dock last week has again thrown the spotlight on Japan's
inane energy policy. The reason --the ship had on board some 30

  8  Power company shareholders lose suit over N-plant DATELINE: NAGOYA,
March 19 Kyodo a A group of 15 shareholders in Chubu Electric Power Co. on
Thursday lost their court battle against the company's payments
to fishermen in connection with the  planned building of a

  9 The New York Times March  19, 1998 SECTION: Section A; Page 13; Column
1;
 Atomic Waste Shipment Approved in California BYLINE:  AP DATELINE: SAN
FRANCISCO BODY:  A plan for shipping  radioactive  waste through the San
Francisco Bay area and Feather River Canyon was approved today

 10 ANTI- URANIUM PROTEST TO BEGIN MONDAY  BRISBANE, March 19 AAP - Eight
anti-uranium mining activists were to leave Brisbane today for Jabiluka in
the Northern Territory to protest a planned uranium mine.
 Jabiluka Alliance spokeswoman Kate Lecchi said it was

 11 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts March  20, 1998 Foreign minister calms
Austrian fears of  nuclear danger SOURCE: Source: CTK news agency, Prague,
18 Mar 98  BODY: Czech Foreign Minister Jaroslav Sedivy has told his
Austrian counterpart that his country has no option but to continue with the

<<< NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY >>>

 12  Agence France Presse  March  19, 1998  Pakistan warns of South Asian
arms race DATELINE: GENEVA  Pakistan's foreign minister on Thursday warned
that India's pledge to "go  nuclear"  could spark off a South Asian arms
race, saying that Islambad would respond to any military threat.

 13 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts March  20, 1998 "Confusion" over report
of change in US  nuclear  deployment plans SOURCE: Source: Kyodo News
Service, Tokyo 19 Mar 98 Tokyo Japan reacted with some confusion Thursday
[19th March] to a report that the United States is reviewing its

<<< OCEANS >>>

 14  The Canberra Times March  19, 1998 Part A; Page 14  A WHALE OF A TIME
OFF EDEN BYLINE: JENNY DETTRICK   UNTIL the 1930s, Eden was one of
Australia's successful  whaling  centres. Today, whales are once again
hunted in the
region, but cameras have replaced harpoons as tourists witness

<<< ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY >>>

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 15 Big oil to advertise its charms on UK billboards LONDON, March 19
(Reuters) - The British oil industry on Thursday launched an unprecedented
advertising campaign to combat its poor public standing. A series of
newspaper and poster advertisements will appear in Scotland as part of a

 16  March 19, 1998 HONGKONG STANDARD HONG KONG Cholera to be worse this
year warns health chief by: Ceri Williams MANY more Hong Kong people will
contract cholera this year because the devastating El Nino weather
phenomenon is causing the infectious disease to spread in Southeast Asia.

 17 Troops battle Indonesian fires as smoke spreads By Kieron Flynn
 SAMARINDA, Indonesia, March 19 (AFP) - Indonesian troops
battled raging fires along the eastern coast of rugged Borneo
island Thursday as the flames threatened villages and spread

 18  South China Morning Post March  19, 1998 Pg. 5  Mexico City-style
pollution  warning BYLINE: ALISON SMITH   Air and water quality could
plummet to Mexico City's level within a decade,  a Nobel Prize-winning
scientist warns.  Professor Mario Molina, who won the Nobel Prize for

 19 Developing countries' CO2 output to top OECD's by 2010 DATELINE: TOKYO,
March 19 Kyodo  Developing countries will outstrip industrialized nations in
the total volume of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted through fossil
fuel consumption by 2010, according to a forecast released

 20  BBC Summary of World Broadcasts March  20, 1998 Coal mine fire in north
still rages after January blast SOURCE: Source: Interfax news agency,
Moscow, in English 1621 gmt 14 Mar 98  BODY:  [46]    A fire in a coal mine
in Vorkuta in northern Russia's Republic of Komi is still raging two months

 21  GLOBE AND MAIL  MAR.19,1998  PAGE: B12  (ILLUS)  BYLINE: G.
PASCAL ZACHARY Dam commission aims to build bridges ** A World Bank-linked
group relies on co-operation in a bid to balance development with the
environment.  The Wall Street Journal   UNDER cover of darkness, 10,000

<<< TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY >>>


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 22 GLOBE AND MAIL  MAR.18,1998  PAGE: A2  BYLINE: Ross Howard
 DATELINE: Vancouver BC   COMPASS  Bark turns to bite in forest
debate - Out in cyberspace, the West Coast's running  war of
words has started to get personal  THE war in the woods is

 23 CITIZENS SETTLE WITH STONE CONTAINER FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS  MISSOULA,
Montana, March 18, 1998 (ENS) - Two out of court settlements reached late
last week will cost the Stone Container Corporation a million dollars for
environmental cleanup in Western Montana. "It is one of the most


 24  Xinhua MARCH  19, 1998 un calls for better  biodiversity  conservation
BYLINE: by xu jianmei DATELINE: nairobi, march 19; ITEM NO: 0319289
 BODY: the u.n. environment program (unep) thursday called for more
attention paid by the world to  biodiversity  conservation and

 25  Thai govt, opposition clash on logging scandal By Sutin Wannabovorn
 BANGKOK, March 19 (Reuters) - The Thai opposition on Thursday accused
premier Chuan Leekpai's government of ignoring illegal logging along the
border with Myanmar (Burma). On the second day of parliament's debate on a

 26 Yanomamis turn to shamans to stop Amazon fires  By Joelle Diderich
 BOA VISTA, Brazil, March 19 (Reuters) As fires raged deeper into the Amazon
rainforests on Thursday, Yanomami Indian shamans gathered to perform a
sacred ceremony to call down the rains, an Indian activist said.  In the

 27 AFP  UN water talks tackle worldwide fresh-water deprivation
BYLINE: Yves Leers  DATELINE: PARIS, March 19  An international conference
on water management opened here Thursday with the focus on providing
practical aid for the estimated 1.5 billion people deprived of drinking

 28 PARER CONSIDERS SELLING COAL MINING SHARES By Rosalind Mathieson and
James Grubel BODY:  CANBERRA, March 19 AAP - Embattled Resources Minister
Warwick Parer today said he was considering selling his family
trust's coal mining shares amid revelations he met Japanese

<<< GENETIC ENGINEERING >>>

 29 The Daily Telegraph March  19, 1998 Pg. 02  Store to stop selling
gene-altered foods By Aisling Irwin  A SUPERMARKET is to withdraw
genetically -modified foods from its shelves after its chairman said they
were probably the most "potentially dangerous" development in food

 30  Agence France Presse March  19, 1998  British supermarket bans
genetically  engineered food from own products DATELINE: LONDON    A British
supermarket on Wednesday banned  genetically  engineered ingredients from
its own brands, warning that such food could be more damaging to public

<<< OTHERS >>>

 31 STANDARDIZING INTERNATIONAL GREEN ACCOUNTING By Donald Sutherland
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 18, 1998 (ENS) - One size fits all has never
been a popular concept for financial reporting internationally, but the
world is getting smaller every day. The environmental effects of a a

 32 AP  March  19, 1998 Grim prognosis for African health BYLINE: ANGUS SHAW
Zimbabwe-African Health DATELINE: HARARE, Zimbabwe  The prognosis is grim
Africa's ailing health care system is showing little sign of recovery.
Ruinous government, wars, too much spent on luxuries and guns, worsening

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