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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Friday, January 8, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
(GREENPEACE)
1) The Toronto Star January 8, 1999 A1 OTTAWA TAKES AIM AT TOXIC TOYS:
Health Canada plans stiff limits on lead levels; Ottawa seeks stiff lead
controls BY By Valerie Lawton OTTAWA - The federal government is
preparing to impose stiff controls on lead in toys and other children's
products like raincoats and diaper bags, The Star has learned. The planned...
(GREENPEACE)
2) Greenpeace ship on anti-pollution bid docks in Rio RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 7
(Reuters) - Greenpeace environmental activists waging a worldwide fight to
stop industrial pollution docked their ship in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday
on the first stop of their Brazil tour. Peter Willcox, captain of the MV
Greenpeace and former captain of the group's flagship Rainbow Warrior,...
(GREENPEACE)
3) GAZETA MERCANTIL ONLINE January 08, 1999 Greenpeace targets industrial
pollution DATELINE: Rio de Janeiro, 01/08/99 Leaders of the
non-government organization Greenpeace, will meet Friday with authorities
of Rio de Janeiro state, amongst them the new environment secretary, AndrA
Gustavo Correa da Silva. The event will mark the beginning of the...
4) Africa News January 8, 1999 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS & COMMENTARY
HEADLINE: Zambia; State Urged To Cut Duty On Pesticides BYLINE: Business
Review Reporter, Times of Zambia (Lusaka) BODY: Lusaka - Government
should consider reviewing the current high duty on imported pesticides
to control the larger grain borer (LGB) and several pests so as to spur...
5) BUSINESSWORLD (PHILIPPINES) January 8, 1999 HEADLINE: RP sets ASEAN talk
on control of banned pesticide BODY: The Department of Agriculture's
Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) will raise problem of
pesticide smuggling to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
in a bid to arrest the smuggled entry of such chemicals into the country....
6) NEW CENTER TO EVALUATE IMPACT OF CHEMICALS ON REPRODUCTION RESEARCH
TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, January 6, 1999 (ENS) - Some chemical or
mixture of chemicals in the environment could be responsible for recent
problems with human reproduction. To delve more deeply into possible
effects of environmental chemicals, the National Toxicology Program (NTP)...
7) 01/07 2100 Chemical Company Pleads Guilty BOSTON (AP) Chemical
testing company Saybolt Inc. was ordered to pay $3.4 million in fines
after pleading guilty Thursday to conspiring to violate the Clean Air
Act by submitting false test results to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, federal officials said. Saybolt is part of a
multinational group of...
8) AUSTRALIAN MINES ECOLOGICAL TIME BOMBS SYDNEY, Australia, January 6,
1999 (ENS) - An environmental time bomb is ticking away at hundreds
of mine sites around Australia through acid mine drainage, scientists
at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
(CSIRO) have found. Acid mine drainage is caused by oxidation of
sulfidic mining waste...
NUCLEAR POWER
(GREENPEACE)
9) Business Week January 11, 1999 Spotlight on Sweden; Number 3611; Pg. 4
HEADLINE: USED NUCLEAR FUEL MAY FIND A HOME...AND OTHER NATIONS MAY BUY
IN BYLINE: EDITED BY HARRY MAURER; By Ariane Sains in Oskarshamn BODY:
Artificial smoke billows across the stage as the white curtain slides
slowly down to a drumroll from the Oskarshamn Big Band. With Swedish Prime...
10) New Scientist January 9, 1999 Pg. 5 HEADLINE: Dead careless BYLINE: Rob
Edwards HIGHLIGHT: Employers are failing to protect workers from radiation
BODY: EXPOSURE to the radioactive isotopes used in medicine and industry
can, in extreme cases, lead to leukaemia within a few months, warn
scientists in Russia and Britain. The discovery adds to growing concern...
11) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Vietnam mulls tapping nuclear energy
DATELINE: HANOI, Jan 8 BODY: Vietnam considers atomic energy as an
important option in meeting its energy needs in the 21st century, a report
said on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem told a visiting
nuclear energy delegation from Japan that Vietnam hoped for bilateral...
12) Agence France Presse N. Korea blames US for woes, demands compensation
for nuclear deal delay DATELINE: SEOUL, Jan 8 BODY: North Korea on
Friday blamed the United States for its economic woes and made a fresh
demand for "tens of billions" of dollars in compensation for delays in
replacing its risky nuclear reactors. The latest call for cash and the...
13) THE KOREA HERALD January 8, 1999 HEADLINE: Japan may end funding of
North Korea reactors; Defense chief warns after Seoul meeting BYLINE: Lee
Sung-yul Staff reporter Japan might cancel its (USDollar) 1 billion BODY:
contribution to the construction of two light-water reactors in North
Korea if the Communist country conducts another medium- range missile...
14) Start up at ERA's Jabiluka uranium mine delayed till 2001 By Andrew Hobbs
BODY: SYDNEY, Jan 8 AAP - The start-up of Energy Resources of Australia
Ltd's (ERA) controversial Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory
will be delayed until 2001. ERA conceded today that longer than
anticipated negotiations with the mine site's traditional owners had been...
15) AMERISCAN: JANUARY 6, 1999 NUCLEAR PLANT LEAK HITS CONNECTICUT BAY The
state of Connecticut has been notified that at least 840 gallons of waste
water containing trace amounts of radioactive tritium have leaked from the
Millstone Nuclear Power Plant into Niantic Bay. Early Monday morning a leak
in a heater loop for the Unit 3 'A' waste test tank was discovered. Waste...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
(GREENPEACE)
16) Cyprus Mail, January 8, 1999 Greenpeace slams government for breaking
pledge to Bases By Jean Christou BRITISH military exercises in the Akamas
did not take place yesterday but will go ahead today on a limited basis,
the government said yesterday. Meanwhile the international environmental
organisation Greenpeace has slammed the government for breaking its...
17) THE HINDU January 8, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE: The Hindu-Editorial-
India's nuclear trail BODY: THE assertion by the Chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. R. Chidambaram, at the Indian Science
Congress that the estimate of the yield from India's testing of the
thermonuclear device in May 1998 was correct and that the doubts raised by...
18) THE HINDU HEADLINE: India- Pak. offers to discuss regime of restraints
BODY: NEW DELHI, Jan. 7. Pakistan today offered to discuss with India a
regime of restraints in both conventional and nuclear fields to minimise
the risk of accidents and an unfettered arms race in the sub- continent.
"Otherwise, our nuclear programmes can become open- ended," Pakistan's...
19) TASS Nuclear tests influence on health of Altai residents studied By
Sergei Temeyev DATELINE: GORNO-ALTAISK, January 8 BODY: Results of a
scientific analysis of the influence of nuclear tests on the
Semipalatinsk grounds on health of residents of the Altai Republic were
made public in Gorno-Altaisk on Friday. The analysis was on since 1993 to...
20) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts January 8, 1999, Friday HEADLINE: Hunt
mounted for Black Sea chemical dumps SOURCE: Source: 'Izvestiya'
(Electronic version), Moscow, in Russian 22 Dec 98 p1 BODY: 51] Russia's
Emergencies Ministry is to demand the release of classified documents
pinpointing burial sites of chemical weapons in the Black Sea after a...
OCEANS
21) Deutsche Presse-Agentur January 8, 1999 Irish salmon farmers bet on
quality, ecological methods BYLINE: By Martin Oversohl, dpa DATELINE:
Galway, Ireland BODY: The fish delicacy salmon has become increasingly
popular throughout Europe, as shown by one simple statistics: Nowadays,
ten times as much salmon is consumed as was the case just ten years ago....
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
22) FED: Oil "fingerprinting" could help stop marine pollution By Melissa
Langerman BODY: CANBERRA, Jan 8 AAP - Australian scientists are hoping to
use new "fingerprinting" methods to track down offenders who kill hundreds
of penguins and other animals each year with marine pollution. The
research - known as oil fingerprinting - could help them to identify...
23) The Times (London) January 8, 1999 Huge reserves of gas will fuel 21st
century BYLINE: Nigel Hawkes BODY: GAS would fuel the 21st century to
the same extent that coal fuelled the 19th and oil the 20th, an energy
specialist told the conference. The world's known reserves of gas
would last for 70 years, he said, and new reserves were continually being...
24) THE KOREA HERALD January 9, 1999 LG stops using CFCs in
refrigerators BODY: LG Electronics Inc. said yesterday it will not use
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), an ozone -depleting material, in all its
refrigerator models. A company spokesman said LG has modified its
existing production lines late last year and has been producing CFC -...
25) New Scientist January 9, 1999 SECTION: Forum, Pg. 44 HEADLINE: Mythical
monster BYLINE: Fred Pearce HIGHLIGHT: Fred Pearce slays the myth of the
Chinese carbon dragon BODY: REMEMBER - you read it here first. China is
in the process of saving the world from climatic cataclysm. I have
lost count of the number of articles I've read predicting that China's...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
(GREENPEACE)
26) Times Colonist (Victoria) January 8, 1999 A4 Tax-break deal seen as
threat to salmon BY Judith Lavoie Increased cutting on Vancouver Island's
private managed forest lands, combined with new weak environmental rules,
will put endangered coho streams at risk, environmental groups claim.
Forest companies say the new rules will protect the environment and the 50...
27) Kenyan ecologist beaten as she attempts to plant trees; NAIROBI, Jan 8
(AFP) - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai suffered serious head injuries
when security guards beat her as well as supporters and journalists when
they arrived at a Nairobi forest to plant trees, her office said.
Maathai, the Green Belt Movement coordinator, was hospitalised after being...
28) New Straits Times (Malaysia) January 8, 1999 Pg. 9 HEADLINE: Group
welcomes monitoring by satellite DATELINE: Kuala Lumpur BODY: KUALA
LUMPUR, Thurs. - Sahabat Alam Malaysia today welcomed the Cabinet's
decision to direct the Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing (Macres) to use
satellite to monitor all environmentally -sensitive and protected areas....
29) New Scientist January 9, 1999 Pg. 16 HEADLINE: Truth games BYLINE:
Charlie Pye-Smith HIGHLIGHT: Is our desire to save the world's large
mammals forcing even the most dedicated pressure groups to distort data ?
BODY: GOVERNMENT scientists apparently cannot be trusted. Opinion polls
consistently suggest that the public has far greater faith in...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
30) Chemical & Industry Magazine, January 4, 1999 Biotechnology branches out
Forest products biotechnology Eds Alan Bruce & John W Palfreyman
Basingstoke: Taylor & Francis 1998 Ppix+326, £49.95, ISBN 0 7484 0415 5
'Wood may remain ten years in the water but it will never become a
crocodile.' I was reminded of this Congolese proverb recently, while...
31) The Ottawa Citizen January 8, 1999 A14 We have a right know what's in
our food BY Mary Lou Garr Contrary to the assertions of Angela Rickman
(``Genetic engineering: what's in it for the rest of us?'' Dec. 28), any
new food in Canada is required to undergo rigorous testing by the federal
government before it is approved, and the products of agricultural...
32) New Scientist January 9, 1999 Pg. 12 HEADLINE: Plough to plate BYLINE:
Andy Coghlan BODY: A FRENCH seed company is setting up Europe's first
scheme for segregating genetically engineered and natural ingredients
throughout the food chain. It is essential to improve transparency and
win the confidence of consumers," says Sofia Ben Tahar, director of...
33) The Irish Times January 8, 1999 Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Seven for court over
alleged damage to GM crop site BYLINE: By KEVIN O'SULLIVAN, Environmental
and Food Science Correspondent BODY: Seven people are being summonsed to
appear in court for alleged criminal damage to a genetically -modified
crop site in Co Wexford, The Irish Times has confirmed. In the first...
34) BUSINESS LINE January 8, 1999 HEADLINE: India- Panel to regulate gene
crops urged BODY: CHENNAI, Jan. THE formation of a national-level
committee with jurisdiction over all areas of agriculture with the
responsibility to develop and enforce a package of measures for safe and
sustainable utilisation of genetically modified organisms ( GMO) was...
35) BUSINESS LINE HEADLINE: India- Monsanto denies use of Terminator
technology BODY: CHENNAI, Jan. GENETICALLY modified seeds which do not
generate natural seeds for the next crop, otherwise called terminator'
seeds, are not being field-tested by Monsanto in India, according to Dr.
Ganesh M. Kishore, Principal Biotechnologist, Monsanto Corporation....
36) THE HINDU HEADLINE: India- Stress on mass-based bio-research BODY:
CHENNAI, Jan. 7. The 86th session of the Indian Science Congress ended
here on Thursday with a resolve to initiate major projects in the fields
of agriculture and human medicine, with a view to making biosciences
mass-based. Pointing to the near seamless flow of biosciences research...
37) Business Week January 11, 1999 Pg. 16 HEADLINE: BITTER WORDS OVER
BETTER SEEDS BYLINE: By Amy Louise Kazmin in New Delhi HIGHLIGHT: A
pest-fighting cotton strain sparks protest-and riles farmers BODY: Two
years ago, cotton-growing regions of southern India were hit by voracious
bollworms. The subsequent crop destruction rove some 200 debt-burdened...
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