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Global News Headlines 07/06
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, July 6, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
(GREENPEACE)
1) Reuters HK plans regular dioxin tests on imported food CHINA: July 6,1999
HONG KONG-Hong Kong is to monitor dioxin levels in food from mainland China,
the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union,Greenpeace
said. "Hong Kong did not have regular dioxin testing before," Ho Wai Chi,
executive director of Greenpeace for China, said on Saturday. "They will...
2) Los Angeles Times July 6, 1999, Tuesday, Home Edition SECTION: Part A;
Page 1; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: THE PATH TO PEACE; YUGOSLAV CITY BATTLING
TOXIC ENEMIES;BALKANS:NATO STRIKES ON CHEMICAL SITES HAVE LEFT ENVIRONMENTAL
NIGHTMARE. BYLINE: MARK FINEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE: PANCEVO,
Yugoslavia BODY: They call it "The Night of the Witches," those horrible...
3) APn 07/06 0443 Kaiser Explosion By NATALIE GOTT GRAMERCY, La. (AP) --Two
aluminum plant workers were in critical condition today after explosions
that injured at least 13 colleagues and sent a caustic chemical into the
community, sickening 100 people. Investigators have not determined what
caused the three explosions early Monday at the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical...
4) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 6, SECTION: Pg. 3 HEADLINE:
Banned chemical found in Port River dolphins SOURCE:The Advertiser ABSTRACT:
On 5 July 1999, Australian Dolphin Research Foundation scientist, Mike
Bossley, confirmed record levels of a toxic substance. Polychlorinated
biphenyl (PCB) was found in three dolphins that died in the Port River in...
NUCLEAR POWER
(GREENPEACE)
5) 07/06 Greenpeace Opposes Ukraine's Nuclear Power Plans By Olena
Horodetska KIEV (Reuters) - Greenpeace urged Ukraine Tuesday to give
plans to complete new nuclear reactors with Western funds and turn
instead to alternative sources of energy. We should not forget
victims of Chernobyl," Tobias Muenchmyer, an energy expert with the
international environmental lobby...
6) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 6, 1999, Tuesday, BC Cycle HEADLINE:
Nuclear reactors in Japan, China plagued by technical problems DATELINE:
Tokyo BODY: Nuclear power plants in Japan have suffered 19 minor
incidents of malfunction so far this year, a figure surpassing last year's
total, a news report said Tuesday. Most of the incidents were due to...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
7) 07/06 Nuclear Test Ban By TOM RAUM WASHINGTON (AP)-It's been nearly
three years since President Clinton became the first world leader to
sign a treaty calling for a global ban on nuclear test explosions.
The Senate has yet to even hold a hearing on it. The Senate is not
alone: So far, only 18 of the 44 nations with nuclear capabilities
that must ratify the wide-ranging...
8) Times Colonist (Victoria) Tuesday, July 6, Final News A3 Province gears up
for Nanoose hearings BY Judith Lavoie The province is practising its punches
as it prepares to enter the ring for another round with Ottawa over the
Nanoose Bay seabed expropriation. On Monday the federal government appointed
Michael Goldie, former B.C. Court of Appeal judge, as public-hearing...
9) HEADLINE: Ex-Hiroshima mayor calls for unity among nuke victims BYLINE:
Maya Kaneko DATELINE: TOKYO,July 7 Kyodo BODY: Former Hiroshima Mayor
Takashi Hiraoka on Tuesday called for unity among A-bomb survivors in Japan
and victims of nuclear tests worldwide to realize a nuclear-free world. 'The
best way to achieve world peace is to form international public opinion...
10) 07/06 DJ Stepashin:Russia To Boost Weapons Exports To Fund Defense
MOSCOW (AP)--Russia plans to boost weapons exports to fund its
crumbling military and to try to exert greater influence in world
affairs, Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said Tuesday. Stepashin
said the government must boost exports because "additional sources
for financing (defense) are nowhere to...
11) AP Worldstream July 06,1999; HEADLINE: AP Photos KRG101-103, DEL101 BYLINE:
NEELESH MISRA India-Pakistan, DATELINE: KARGIL, India BODY:Pakistani shells
slammed into an Indian oil tanker convoy Tuesday as fierce fighting in
Kashmir continued despite an agreement in Washington that Pakistan withdraw
forces from India's side of a cease-fire line. U.S. President Bill...
12) Belgrade to stock up coal and firewood to keep.. BELGRADE, July 6 Itar-Tass
"The Lord was kind to the Serbs: the winters during the U.N. sanctions were
warm," many residents of Belgrade say now recalling the time of the recent
Bosnian conflict in the hope that the coming winter will be warm too. The
situation is much more complicated this time. The European union's embargo...
OCEANS
(GREENPEACE)
13) Newsday (New York, NY) July 6, 1999, Tuesday, ALL EDITIONS SECTION:
VIEWPOINTS; Page A23 HEADLINE: PIRATES STILL PLUNDER THE HIGH SEAS BYLINE:
By Niaz Dorry. Niaz Dorry, a fisheries specialist based n New England, is
an ocean campaigner for Greenpeace BODY: ARE THERE still pirates out on
the high seas? Yes, but not the kind you see in old movies. Today's...
(GREENPEACE)
14) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 6, 1999, HEADLINE: Greenpeace calls on
Mexico to establish whale preserve off coast DATELINE: Mexico City BODY:
The international environmental organization Greenpeace has called on
Mexico to establish a whale preserve off a 200-mile stretch of the country's
Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. In order to reinforce their call for the...
(GREENPEACE)
15) Locals tackle ecologists over Mexico saltworks MEXICO CITY, July 6
(Reuters) - Residents of Mexico's northwestern state of Baja California Sur
are hitting back at ecologists who are trying to stop a Japanese-Mexican
firm from opening a saltworks at a unique whale-breeding lagoon. The
residents called on Monday for Mexican citizens to join an alliance to...
16) USA TODAY July 6, FIRST EDITION SECTION: LIFE; Pg. 8D HEADLINE: Man's roar
ripples through whales' world Shipping sounds could cause deadly confusion
for marine life BYLINE: Tim Friend BODY: Two sperm whales swimming near
the Canary Islands are struck from behind and killed by a cargo ship. The
whales reportedly make no attempt to get out of the ship's path. An exam...
17) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 07, 1999, Wednesday HEADLINE: Tuna
regains position as main export BODY: 7] Text of report by Radio Australia
on 6th July Tuna has bounced back as Solomon Islands' main export. George
Atkin reports from Honiara. [Atkin] The minister of fisheries, Dr Steve
Aumanu, says the tuna resource lost its position to the logging industry...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
18) RTw 07/06 0441 Not too late for world's coral reefs - biologist (Adds
quotes, Greenpeace reaction) By Diana Taylor BRISBANE, July 6 (Reuters) -
The world's coral reefs are at risk of being devastated by the effects of
global warming, but there was still time to save them, a leading biologist
and coral expert said on Tuesday. I don't think we are in the no hope...
(GREENPEACE)
19) The Guardian (London) July 6, 1999 SECTION: Guardian City Pages; Pg. 23
HEADLINE: Energy tax is backed BYLINE: Roger Cowe BODY: Roger Cowe
Industry fears about the government's planned energy tax were dismissed
yesterday as a group of leading environmentalists wrote to the chancellor
backing the tax proposal. On the eve of a crucial meeting of the commons...
20) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 07, 1999, Wednesday HEADLINE: South
Asia more prone to natural disasters than ever before BODY: 1] ..H3.-
SOUTH ASIA Text of report in English by Indian news agency PTI New
Delhi, 4th July: With highest population in the world, deforestation
wrecking ecological defences and global warming making forces of wind,...
21) HEADLINE: Officials set for taste of ocean rising at close quarters BYLINE:
Giff Johnson MAJURO, July 6 (AFP)-When officials from nearly 40 small island
countries meet here next week, they will never be more than 100 meters (300
feet) from the ocean that many worry will begin flooding these tiny islands
in the next century. The meeting of the Association of Small Island States...
22) Summer of discontent simmers in rainy British Columbia By Paul Simao
VICTORIA, British Columbia, July 6 (Reuters) - What do you call two straight
days of rain in British Columbia? The weekend. The joke, a reference to the
mild but notoriously wet climate in Canada's westernmost province, has lost
much of its humor this summer for residents frustrated searching the skies...
23) HEADLINE: FED: Air-conditioning chemical could harm newborns and liver
BYLINE: By Linda Silmalis BODY: HCFC SYDNEY, July 6 AAP -A chemical used in
office and shop air- conditioning units and fire extinguishers could harm
newborn babies and cause liver damage, new scientific evidence has found.
The report, by the National Industrial Chemicals otification and Assessment...
24) ENVIRONMENT CANADA: New regulations will protect... JUL 6, 1999, M2
Communications -OTTAWA- The Government of Canada is putting its own house in
order with new regulations to protect our ozone layer. Environment Minister
Christine S. Stewart today announced that regulations are now in effect to
control the release of ozone-depleting substances and their halocarbon...
25) The Guardian (London) July 6, SECTION: Guardian Education Pages; Pg. 9
HEADLINE: Travelling light; Will Callaghan on a radical car design which
promises to curb pollution BODY: The British love of cars is choking the
nation. Road vehicles are now responsible for one fifth of the UK's carbon
dioxide emissions, three quarters of the carbon monoxide and half of the...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
26) The New York Times July 6, 1999, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final SECTION:
Section A; Page 16;Column 1;Editorial Desk HEADLINE: Rethinking Dams BODY:
Last week construction workers began dismantling the 24-foot-high, 917-foot-
wide Edwards Dam on Maine's Kennebec River. This was an important moment in
the struggle to restore the nation's rivers to good health. It marked the...
27) AFP HEADLINE: Hostile Australian environmental battle climaxes BYLINE:
Martin Parry DATELINE: SYDNEY, July 6 BODY: UNESCO will consider in Paris
Wednesday whether Australia's World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park
should be put on the in-danger list because of the construction of a
lucrative uranium mine. The decision could see Australia become the first...
28) Asahi News Service JULY 6, 1999, TUESDAY HEADLINE: BIRDS NEED HEALTHY
ECOSYSTEMS, NOT JUST NESTS BYLINE: FUMIHIKO YAMADA BODY: Although the fact
that efforts to protect eagles and hawks have sparked numerous disputes over
public works projects may suggest that the protection movement is making
headway, the opposite is actually the case, with habitats being increasingly...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
29) PA 07/05 1853 RESTAURANTS TO GET GM LABEL RULES By Eileen Murphy,Consumer
Affairs Correspondent, PA News Restaurants, takeaways and food producers are
to receive Government guidance notes on the labelling of genetically
modified (GM) foods, Food Safety Minister Jeff Rooker said today. The
guidance notes on the legislation surrounding the approval of GM foods and...
30) The Irish Times July 6,CITY EDITION SECTION: HOME NEWS; Pg. 2 HEADLINE:
Cattle growth hormone ban likely to continue BYLINE: By KEVIN O'SULLIVAN,
Environmental and Food Science Correspondent BODY:The failure by governments
to agree on standards for the controversial growth hormone, bovine
somatrophin (BST), is likely to make it much easier for the EU to renew its...
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