Global News Headlines 01/22

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Friday, January 22, 1999
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) New Scientist Jan 23, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 22 HEADLINE: Spanish
dilemma BYLINE: Luis Miguel Ariza (Madrid) BODY: THE tens of thousands of
tonnes of toxic metals deposited near Donana National Park in Spain after a
dam at a mine collapsed could be removed using genetically engineered
plants. This suggestion, which has horrified environmentalists,  was made at...

(GREENPEACE)
2) Greenpeace calls for halt to Cambior Mexico mine MEXICO CITY, Jan 21
(Reuters) Environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday that a Cambior
Inc. <CBJ.TO> gold and silver mining project in central Mexico would be a
major source of pollution and called for the project to be stopped.
Greenpeace said it was supporting local groups in San Luis Potosi state who...

(GREENPEACE)
3) 01/21 WSJ: WEEKEND JOURNAL: Home Front: Just One Word: Plastics: But
Does Anyone Want A Styrofoam House? `Look, No Termites!' By Eileen
Daspin Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal When it is finished,
Jim De Zen's 24,000-square-foot home outside Toronto will boast all
the conveniences of the modern mansion -- and then some. The
reception area, a 30-foot...

4) New Scientist Jan 23, 1999 SECTION: Forum, Pg. 47 HEADLINE: Fatal
inaction BYLINE: Mark Huxham (Mark Huxham is at the Department of Biological
Sciences, Napier University, Edinburgh) HIGHLIGHT: It's time to stop
procrastinating over nitrate pollution, says Mark Huxham BODY: STOMACH
cancer, brain damage, mass fish kills, declining bird populations, tides of...

5) New Scientist January 23, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 12 HEADLINE: Bitter
legacy BYLINE: Liz Tynan (Sydney) HIGHLIGHT: Australia's mining industry
will have to clean up its act BODY: ACID waste could leak from scores of
mines in Australia, a new report claims. It warns that the mining industry's
practice of burying its waste is ineffective. A team led by John Harries of...

6) Mass bird deaths caused by chemicals SACRAMENTO, Jan. 21 (UPI) Laboratory
tests indicate that the scores of birds that have been dropping from the
trees in Santa Rosa were killed by nitrites -- not alcohol. The state
Department of Fish and Game reported today that pathologists reached that
conclusion after examining the carcasses of dead robins and cedar waxwings....

7) AMERISCAN: JANUARY 21, 1999 WASTE BURNING TOPS LEADED GAS FOR BLOOD LEAD
CONTENT Solid waste incineration may exceed leaded gasoline as the primary
source Of lead air pollution in cities. Examining sediment cores from New
York's Central Park Lake dating back 100 years, a group of scientists
conclude that incineration of solid waste, rather than leaded gasoline, has...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

8) U.S. organ criticizes security on plutonium shipment WASHINGTON, Jan. 21
(Kyodo) -- Protection measures for the forthcoming shipments of mixed
plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel from Europe to  Japan are inadequate, a
U.S. private institute said Thursday. The Washington-based Nuclear Control
Institute expressed the concern in  a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Bill...

9) The Daily Yomiuri January 23, 1999, SECTION: Pg. 6 HEADLINE: Govt must show
more openness on intl shipping of nuclear fuels BYLINE: Kyoichi Sasazawa
BODY: Negotiations to ensure the safe transportation of mixed oxide (MOX)
atomic fuel for light-water nuclear reactors are currently under way between
Japan, the United States and European nations as Tokyo Electric Power Co....

10) NUCLEAR FOES MOBILIZE AGAINST MOX-FUEL PLANT WASHINGTON  Jan. 19 (States)
Building a plant at Savannah River Site to turn surplus plutonium into
commercial fuel would perpetuate a health and national security risk that
could be avoided by burying the  material, anti-nuclear activists said
Tuesday. Members of several environmental groups from the Southeast are in...

11) 01/22 Bulgaria To Resist Pressure To Shut Nuclear Reactors Early
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) Bulgarian Vice Premier Evgenyi Bakardzhiev
Friday rejected pressure for the early shutdown of four nuclear
reactors, and called for foreign firms to invest in conventional
facilities so the reactors could be replaced by 2010. Bakardzhiev
told parliament Bulgaria will shut the oldest...

12) The Mirror January  22, 1999, SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 6 HEADLINE: NUKE PLANT
BLUNDERS RISKED WORKERS' LIVES; BOSSES FACE PROBE AFTER COST-CUTTING BYLINE:
Ron Mackenna BODY: BOSSES at a Scots nuclear station are being investigated
over an amazing catalogue of potentially lethal blunders. Government
officials will today serve a prohibition notice on Chapelcross Power Station...

13) Germany holds line in nuclear row with France, U.K. By Erik Kirschbaum
BONN, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Germany said on Friday it had the legal power to
cancel French and British nuclear waste treatment contracts without paying
compensation following plans to gradually shutdown the country's 19 nuclear
plants. But Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's chancellery minister Bodo Hombach...

14) India, Vietnam sign pact on n-energy cooperation By P. S. Suryanarayana,
The Hindu, January 21, 1999  SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. - A new Indo-Vietnamese
accord on cooperation in the sphere of nuclear energy was signed in Hanoi on
Tuesday. Under the bilateral ``Cooperation Plan,'' India will set up a
``Nuclear Training Centre'' in Vietnam. Training will also be imparted to...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

15) The Moscow Times January 22, 1999 SECTION: No. 1627 HEADLINE: Maslyukov
Says U.S. Right on Iran Leaks BYLINE: Simon Saradzhyan BODY: Staff Writer In
a surprising turnabout, First Deputy Prime Minister Yury Maslyukov has
admitted that the technologies behind nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles
have been leaking out of Russia to Iran and other points foreign as part of...

16) AP Worldstream January 22, 1999 HEADLINE: Parliament approves nuclear test
ban treaty DATELINE: WARSAW, Poland BODY: Poland's lower parliament chamber
voted almost unanimously Friday for President Aleksander Kwasniewski to sign
an international treaty banning nuclear tests. The vote was 415 in favor,
two against and three abstentions on the nuclear ban adopted by the United...

 OCEANS

(GREENPEACE)
17) 01/22 Greenpeace to track Antarctica fishing pirates AMSTERDAM
(Reuters) Environmental group Greenpeace said Friday it had sent a
vessel to the southern oceans bordering Antarctica to seek pirates
fishing the toothfish, which could be commercially extinct within
three years. The illegal catch has snowballed into a hugely lucrative
industry, bringing in half a billion...

(GREENPEACE)
18) FED: Illegal fishing devastating Southern Ocean: Greenpeace BODY: SYDNEY,
Jan 22 AAP - Failure to stop illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean would
cause the total collapse of the region's fisheries, Greenpeace warned
international officials today. Ministers and bureaucrats from 24 nations,
including Australia, will meet in Antarctica next week to discuss...

19) FISH-FARM RUSH THREATENS CANADA'S WILD SALMON  By William Thomas
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, January 21, 1999 (ENS) - In an effort to
"kick- start" a declining resource-extraction economy, the government of
British Columbia says it will lift a four year-old moratorium on fish-farm
development later this month. Anne McMullin of the B.C. Salmon Farmers...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
20) Greenpeace says Shell negligent in Argentina oil spill BUENOS AIRES, Jan
22 (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace accused Anglo-Dutch oil
giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group of negligence Friday in its handling of
operations to control a crude oil spill in the River Plate. Shell is
an amateur operation with no serious contingency plan," Greenpeace
Argentina head...

21) Oil spill spreads, Shell denies it is liable BODY: BUENOS AIRES, Jan 21
(AFP) Last week's oil spill in the Rio de la Plata estuary is causing "
ecological damage that cannot yet  be measured," said the governor of Buenos
Aires  province Thursday after inspecting the area affected by the spill.
Governor Eduardo Duhalde inspected area where some 250,000 liters (65,000...

22) Financial Times (London) Jan 22, 1999, USA EDITION 1 SECTION: TECHNOLOGY;
Pg. 20 HEADLINE: World power in a barrel: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY HYDROPOWER: A
Russian scientist expelled from his homeland may have the solution to the
planet's energy problems, writes Victoria Griffith  BODY: Alexander Gorlov
looks improbably modest when he announces that he has solved the world's...

23) The Daily Yomiuri Jan 23, 1999, SECTION: Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Tokyo could reduce
CO2 by 40% BYLINE: Yomiuri Science BODY: Engineers from Japan, the United
States and Switzerland said Thursday that carbon dioxide emissions in Tokyo
could be reduced by 40 percent without sacrificing any urban activities.
The research group presented its findings on the third day of an academic...

24) AMERISCAN: JANUARY 21, 1999  BETTER FARMING AND FORESTRY CAN FIGHT GLOBAL
WARMING Farms, forests and grasslands around the world can help combat
global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the
soil. That was the major conclusion of a recent workshop in St. Michaels,
Maryland, organized by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest...

25) New Scientist Jan 23, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 22 HEADLINE: A dirty
business BYLINE: Fred Pearce HIGHLIGHT: Could burying waste slow down
global warming? BODY: LANDFILL sites could soon become environmental
assets. Research from Wisconsin suggests that burying waste paper and wood
permanently locks away large amounts of carbon that would otherwise escape...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

26) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: LOGGING BAN ROW
THREATENS LARGE DAMS BYLINE: Nadeem Iqbal DATELINE: ISLAMABAD, Dec. 22 BODY:
Moves by a provincial government in Pakistan to lift a logging ban in the
green belt region of the mainly treeless nation have worried federal
authorities that this could cut short the life of the nation's biggest dams....

27) The New York Times Jan  22, 1999, Late Edition-Final SECTION: A; Page 17;
Column 2; National Desk HEADLINE: Forest Workers Protest Logging BYLINE:  By
JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan. 21  BODY: Hundreds of United
States Forest Service employees have signed an E-mail petition calling for
strict limits on logging in the pristine back country of the national...

28) 01/22 Grand Canyon Logging GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP)  An
experimental plan to log parts of Grand Canyon National Park is being
considered by park officials seeking to prevent catastrophic forest
fires. If approved following public meetings next month, the proposal
announced Thursday would mark the first time logging is permitted in
any of the...

29) Link Cambodia aid to sound forest policy - group PHNOM PENH, Jan 22
(Reuters) A government crackdown on illegal logging has been effective but
Cambodia's aid donors should link their assistance to continued sound
logging practices, an environmental group said on Thursday. The  U.K.-based
Global Witness environmental pressure group said it was  concerned the...

30) Business Day (South Africa) Jan 22, 1999 SECTION: Rest of Africa; Pg. 7
HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS DELAY HOTEL RESORT PROJECT BYLINE: Charles
Mubambe DATELINE: LUSAKA BODY: Environmental and cultural concerns have
delayed construction of Sun International's proposed $45,6m hotel resort at
the Victoria Falls world heritage site in Livingstone, Zambia. Sun...

31) The Scotsman January 22, 1999, SECTION: Pg. 24 HEADLINE: JUST SAY NYET TO
RUSSIAN CAVIAR BYLINE: Camillo Fracassini Consumer Affairs Correspondent
BODY: IT IS enough to make you balk at your Bollinger or gag on your foie
gras. Russian caviar, one of the world's great delicacies, could soon be off
the menu at some of Britain's most elegant restaurants. Gastronomes and
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32) Irish Genetic Concern slams EU biosafety policy DUBLIN, Jan 21 (Reuters)
The Irish environmental group Genetic Concern accused the European Union on
Thursday of not recognising the extent of public fears of genetically
modified organisms (GMOs). There is a massive gap between EU Commission
attitudes on genetic engineering and public desire for caution in relation...

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