Global News Headlines 01/11

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Monday, January 11, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) Activists protest "toxic" ship's stop in Singapore DATELINE: BODY: By Lara
Parpan SINGAPORE, Jan 11 (AFP) -  International environmental  activists
Monday staged a water-borne protest  here against a "toxic" ship owned by
Anglo-Dutch shipping giant P and O Nedlloyd due to be scrapped in China.
Greenpeace  International and the  Basel Action Network (BAN) protesters...

2) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: WWF against reopening of Spanish disaster
mine DATELINE: GENEVA, Jan 11  BODY: The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on
Monday protested against plans to reopen a mine in southern Spain that
caused a toxic waste spill in April 1997, warning of the possibility of a
new catastrophe. The  ecological  organisation asked the European Union to...

3) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT January 11, 1999 HEADLINE: NEAR-EXTINCT EAGLE MAKES
FINNISH COMEBACK BODY: The white-tailed eagle that has been threatened by
extinction in Finland has made a comeback. Last year the reproducing couples
got a record number of 140 young, a result that can at least partly be seen
as the result of feeding the birds meat that is free of environmental
poisons....

4) Windsor Star January 11, 1999 Final Editorial A6 Detroit River: The
return of mercury  Mercury levels in the Detroit River are going up again
and have recently reached alarmingly and potentially harmful levels, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has discovered. Five parts per million
used to be considered a lot of mercury in the mud of Lake St. Clair or the...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
5) French nuclear fuel firm in judicial inquiry PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters)
France's state-owned nuclear fuel firm Cogema said on Monday that an
investigating magistrate had launched an inquiry into its work  after
anti-nuclear activists said it endangered public health. A magistrate in
Cherbourg, near Cogema's nuclear reprocessing plant in La  Hague, said the...

6) Russian Press Digest January 11, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE: " Nuclear"
Card Of The Krasnoyarsk Governor BYLINE:  Andrei Vaganov SOURCE:
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA, p. 3 HIGHLIGHT: Refusal of Krasnoyarsk Governor
Alexander Lebed to store Ukrainian radioactive waste at current price
increases Ukraine's chance to get foreign subsidies.  BODY: Krasnoyarsk...

7) Saint-Gobain shares slide on report of nuclear waste in its glass wool
BODY: PARIS Jan 11 (AFP) - Shares in Saint Gobain fell sharply on Monday
following a press report that the French industrial group had been selling
glass wool containing  radioactive waste  particles. The price of the share
fell 7.5 percent in morning trading, and by midafternoon was still down 4.34...

8) 01/11 Utilities Call Y2K a Minimal Impact By H. JOSEF HEBERT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There is no foolproof guarantee, but the dreaded
millennium computer bug likely will have "only minimal impact" on
electric power systems and the lights will keep burning, an
optimistic industry review said Monday. But Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson, accepting the latest report on how the...

9) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Ten hospitalised in Turkey after
contamination with radioactive  waste DATELINE: ISTANBUL, Jan 11 BODY: Ten
people have been hospitalised in Istanbul with serious  radioactive
contamination  after a block of lead containing cobalt 60 was discovered in
a scrapyard, Turkish papers reported Monday. Eight people were arrested for...

10) TASS HEADLINE: Russia-US accord on stopping  plutonium  reactor in doubt
BYLINE: By Yury Khots DATELINE: KRASNOYARSK, January 11  BODY: The Russia-US
inter-governmental accord on stoppage by 2000 of a  plutonium-manufacturing
reactor of the Krasnoyarsk ore mill is in doubt, the mill's general director
Valery Lebedev said. He said in an interview with Itar-Tass on Monday that...

11) VIC: Jabiluka protesters ignore mine delay BODY: MELBOURNE, Jan 11 AAP -
The postponement of the start-up of Jabiluka uranium mine failed to deter 50
Melbourne anti-uranium protesters, who rallied against the mine today in
what organisers said was the first of many protests this year. Energy
Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) announced on Friday that the controversial...

12) MIDDLE EAST NEWS ITEMS January 11, 1999 HEADLINE: RUSSIA SHIPS HIGH-
ENRICHED URANIUM TO FRANCE  BODY: Russia has shipped a first consignment of
high-enriched uranium to France, intended for production of fuel for two
research reactors, the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry announced. Russia's
Tekhsnabexport Company delivered the shipment on December 29.  The uranium...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY

13) Australia orders new probes into nuclear  test links to cancer DATELINE:
BODY: By Jack Taylor SYDNEY, Jan 11 (AFP) - New investigations have been
ordered into Britain's  nuclear  tests in Australia amid claims a rare
cancer is killing servicemen who witnessed the tests in the 1950s and 1960s,
officials said Monday. Separate probes by Australia and Britain follow  new...

14) FED: Opposition wants Aborigines in  nuclear  blasts inquiry  BODY:
CANBERRA, Jan 12 AAP - The federal opposition wants indigenous people
included in an inquiry into findings linking atomic bomb tests in Australia
in the 1950s and 1960s with cancer. Both the Australian and British
governments have announced separate investigations into the research which...

15) The Ottawa Citizen, Jan 11, 1999 Final News A8 Russia's deadly secret: In
1979, a deadly anthrax epidemic broke  outin a closed Soviet city. It
killed and sickened dozens near a biological warfare research centre.
As David Hoffman reports, the outbreak has not been fully explained.
BY David Hoffman YEKATERINBURG,  Russia - On  April 4, 1979, the
chief physician of Hospital...

16) 01/11 US Planes Attack Iraq Defense Sites By LAURA MYERS WASHINGTON
(AP) -- Chief U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler declared Monday
his agency is "not dead" and will return to Iraq, possibly as a less
intrusive monitoring system. We'll be back under this new 
dispensation," said Butler, noting it may take months for the U.N.
Security  Council and member states to approve...

17) UNSCOM chief may favor spy probe By SID BALMAN Jr WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI)
-- In the wake of revelations the United States spied on Iraq while helping
the United Nations monitor Baghdad's weapons program, chief arms inspector
Richard Butler says he has suspended American reconnaissance flights and may
request an investigation into the charges. If the United States carried out...

 OCEANS 

18) Aust Great Barrier Reef park to be extended by 6,000km  BODY: ADELAIDE, Jan
11 AAP - Already the world's largest marine reserve, the Great
Barrier Reef Marine Park will be extended by a further 6,000 square
kilometres to protect ecologically  significant areas that have
previously gone unrecognised. Federal Environment Minister Robert
Hill said today he had written to...

19) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Thai villagers sue Hollywood studio
DATELINE: BANGKOK, Jan 11  BODY: Thai villagers Monday started legal action
against Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox and Thai government agencies in a
bid to stop a movie starring "Titanic" heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio, lawyers
said. Lawyer Varin Thiemcharas said the suit included a request for an...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
20) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: HUMAN RIGHTS-NIGERIA: AMNESTY FOCUSES ON
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY BYLINE: By Dipankar De Sarkar DATELINE: LONDON,
Jan. 11  BODY: The occupation of Shell's London offices last week by
environmental activists, protesting the Anglo-Dutch petroleum giant's
alleged disregard of human rights in Nigeria, has again brought into the...

21) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US Justice Department to sue Toyota over
pollution DATELINE: TORRANCE, California, Jan 11  BODY: The US Justice
Department is to sue the US unit of the Japanese car maker Toyota on grounds
that a  pollution -control device installed by the company does not meet
government regulations, Toyota Motor Sales USA said here Monday.  The firm...

22) New Straits Times (Malaysia) January 11, 1999 SECTION: National; Pg. 7
HEADLINE: BP launches conservation awareness drive DATELINE: Kuala Lumpur
BODY: KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - BP Malaysia Sdn Bhd and World Wide Fund For
Nature Malaysia (WWF) today launched the BP Stamps Bonanza promotion to
promote public awareness on preserving the country's wildlife heritage. The...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

23) Heavy snows threaten Alaska moose ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 11 (UPI) --
An estimated 100 or more moose in Alaska face possible starvation due to
unusually heavy snow in their winter feeding area. The Anchorage Daily News
reports today that the moose are competing for food in belly-deep snow in an
area near Anchorage known as the Portage Flats, where the moose come each...

24) Calgary Herald Jan 11, 1999 Final News A4 Two sensitive land areas opened
to oil exploration BY Ed Struzik, Edmonton Journal Two environmentally
sensitive areas that were being considered for designation under Alberta's
Special Places program will be opened to oil and gas exploration, government
documents obtained by the Edmonton Journal reveal.  ``Effective immediately,...

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