Global News Headlines 07/21

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Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

1) The Guardian (London) July 21, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Foreign Pages; Pg.
15 HEADLINE: Garbage row Landfill site blockade raises spectre of new
Smoky Mountain BYLINE: Claire Wallerstein in Manila BODY: A stinking
row was brewing in Manila yesterday as the Philippine capital's only
landfill site was barricaded by thousands of angry residents who
claim they are being...

2) 07/21 Royal Caribbean pleads guilty to sea pollution WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., the world's second largest
cruise line, has agreed to plead guilty and pay a record $18 million
fine for polluting at sea, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The
Miami-based cruise line agreed to a 21-count felony plea agreement
for dumping waste oil, hazardous...

3) NORWEGIANS CAMPAIGN FOR PCB CLEANUP  OSLO, Norway, July 21, 1999 (ENS) -
One of Norway's leading environmental non-governmental organisations has
launched a campaign aimed at extracting financial compensation for clean-up
costs from former producers of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).  There are
thought to be 300-400 tonnes of PCBs in the Norwegian environment, much of...

4) The Times (London) July 21, 1999, SECTION: Home news HEADLINE:Fry-tipping
fear for chip shop oil BYLINE: Nick Nuttall, environment correspondent
BODY: MILLIONS of litres of cooking oil from fish and chip shops and
fast-food restaurants may be dumped illegally down drains if Europe-wide
moves to stop animal feed becoming contaminated with toxins become law....

5) 07/21 Rights Workers Cleared in Cambodia By KER MUNTHIT
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) Two human rights workers accused of
inciting a riot during a toxic-waste scare were acquitted today after
prosecutors admitted that they had not proved the charges. After
Judge Tak Kim Sea declared Meas Minear and Kim Sen innocent, Amnesty
International hailed the verdict as "a major step...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
6) Africa News July 21, 1999 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS & COMMENTARY HEADLINE:
South Africa; South Africa warns on nuke ships set for Cape BYLINE: John
Yeld, Cape Argus (Cape Town) BODY: Cape Town - Two British ships carrying
high-level reactor fuel, which can be readily used to make nuclear  bombs,
appear set to pass the Cape of Good Hope en route to Japan. The vessels,...

(GREENPEACE)
7) British ship leaves France carrying nuclear shipment for Japan BYLINE:
David Arrode CHERBOURG, France, July 21 (AFP) - A British ship carrying a
controversial shipment of reprocessed nuclear fuel for Japan sailed out of
this Channel port Wednesday as authorities ordered Greenpeace protesters out
of French waters. The Pacific Teal, carrying mixed uranium and plutonium...

(GREENPEACE)
8) 07/21 Dutch freeze Greenpeace bank account after protest By Simon
Gardner LONDON (Reuters) - A Dutch court has frozen environmental
group Greenpeace International's bank account after a nuclear protest
earlier this week, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (BNFL), which sought
the court ruling, said Wednesday. BNFL said it had asked Amsterdam's
Court of First Instance to...

9) EBRD grants 111.6 mln euros for Chernobyl shelter KIEV, July 21  (Reuters)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will give
Ukraine 111.6 million euros ($116.06 million) for urgent work on a destroyed
Chernobyl reactor, a Ukrainian official said on Wednesday. Nadiya Shumak,
spokeswoman for Ukraine's state nuclear power agency Energoatom, told...

10) 07/21 Brazil: nuclear plant construction debate continues Source:
Gazeta Mercantil Page: A-6 Date: July 20, 1999 TheBrazilian national
association Aben will promote the benefits of nuclear energy in
comparison with hydroelectric power energy in order to speed up the
construction of the Angra 3 nuclear plant. The goal is to start
building it in the beginning of...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

11) The Christian Science Monitor July 21, 1999 SECTION: OPINION; Pg. 9
HEADLINE: Another victim of Milosevic -  the environment BYLINE: Christopher
Walker DATELINE: BOSTON BODY: Through his catastrophic policies of
intolerance and ethnic separatism, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has
poisoned the political atmosphere in the Balkans with hatred and violence....

12) The Moscow Times July 21, 1999 SECTION: No. 1754 HEADLINE: EDITORIAL:
Just What Did Pasko Do Wrong? BYLINE: THE MOSCOW TIMES BODY: Here in Russia,
if the KGB takes up a case there is never an acquittal. I got out today but
tomorrow someone else will go to jail." - Navy Captain Grigory Pasko
reacting to Tuesday's verdict. Pasko is right: He deserved a full acquittal....

13) AP Worldstream July 21, 1999 HEADLINE: Thieves ravage Russian naval base
DATELINE: MOSCOW  BODY: Thieves seeking copper and  other metals have stolen
kilometers (miles) worth of cables from a naval base in Russia's Far East,
impairing communications with vessels in the fleet, including nuclear
submarines, a news report said Wednesday. ''We are desperately losing this...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
14) The Anchorage Daily News Online Wednesday, July 21, 1999  Environmentalists
offer judge steps to protect Stellar sea lions By NATALIE PHILLIPS Daily
News reporter  Having won the first round in a lawsuit against the
government to further protect the endangered Steller sea lion, an
environmental coalition has proposed to a federal judgewhat should happen...

15) AP Worldstream July 21, 1999 HEADLINE: Eight whales beached in Russia's
Arctic DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: Eight white whales have beached themselves on
Russia's Arctic coast, apparently trying to escape uncomfortably warm water
after a hot spell that has stretched on for weeks, officials said Wednesday.
Temperatures have been extremely high in the northern Murmansk region as in...

16) The Vancouver Sun July 21, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; B3 HEADLINE: High
waters hamper sockeye run: For a third straight year, environmental
conditions have interfered with upriver migration by salmon returning to
spawning grounds. BYLINE: Kim Pemberton BODY: High waters in the Fraser
River are causing difficulties for sockeye trying to get upriver to spawn,...

17) JOINT COMMISSION ON OCEANS & ATMOSPHERE CREATED  PARIS, France, July 21,
1999 (ENS) - A new United Nations agency is being created to
integrate observation of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. It is
expected to eventually develop a worldwide system for ocean
monitoring and forecasting similar to that now in place for many
years for atmospheric monitoring. The...

18) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Swedish coastguards try to clear up oil spill SWEDEN:
July 21, 1999 STOCKHOLM - An oil spill about three to four nautical miles
long and up to 400 metres (yards) wide has been reported between  Sweden's
east coast and Finland's autonomous Aland islands, Swedish coastguards said
yesterday. Coastguard Denis Sandlund said the spill off Harnosand, about 450...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
19) 07/21 DJ Greenpeace Activists Arrested At Australia Shale Oil Plnt
CANBERRA (Dow Jones) Police late Wednesday arrested three more
Greenpeace environmental activists who illegally entered the Stuart
shale oil plant at Gladstone in Australia's Queensland state,
disrupting plant operations for the second time this week. The
arrests on charges of trespass and...

20) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, World Business Group says carbon sink debate mired
AUSTRALIA: July 21, 1999 MELBOURNE  - Debate on protocols for developing
carbon sinks to offset greenhouse gas emissions was fraught by emotion and
division, World Business Council for Sustainable Development president Bjorn
Stigson said yesterday. Stigson told a business lunch that principles for...

21) WSJ(7/21): U.S. Presses Indonesia On Utility Accords By Jay Solomon Staff
Reporter of The Wall Street Journal JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The U.S.
government is pressuring Indonesia to honor contracts to buy electric power
that many in the country claim are Suharto-era sweetheart deals it can no
longer afford. The majority of the contracts were signed with U.S. companies...

22) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Economic July  21, 1999 HEADLINE:
ARMENIA'S LAKE SEVAN SAID ON VERGE OF " ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE" SOURCE:
Noyan Tapan news agency, Yerevan, 16 Jul 99  BODY: Lake Sevan is on the
"verge of catastrophe", according to the first national report issued within
the framework of the UN convention on  climate changes, the Armenian news...

23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: 47,500 evacuated as Yangtze river rises to
alarming levels DATELINE: SHANGHAI, July 21  BODY: Authorities have
evacuated 47,500 people from central China's Hubei province as the Yangtze
river topped emergency levels and threatened a repeat of last year's
disastrous dyke burst in the area, a local official said Wednesday. The...

24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Bangladesh threatened by a second round of
flooding DATELINE: DHAKA, July 21 BODY: Bangladesh is facing renewed
flooding  with heavy monsoon rains causing flash floods in several parts of
the country only days after the situation had eased, officials said
Wednesday. There have been heavy rains in the Brahmaputra, Ganges, Meghna...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

25) CHINA DAILY July 21, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE: China- Plant diseases,
insect pests plague forest land BODY: MORE than 20 kinds of plant diseases
and insect pests are threatening large stretches of forest land in 11 cities
and counties in Northwest China's  Qinghai Province. The pest plague is so
widespread that it is devouring the province's precious forest resources....

26) Western Daily Press July 21, 1999 EDITION: WDP LATE CITY SECTION: Choices,
Pg.20 HEADLINE: Why more shoppers are going green;  Quita Morgan looks at
the boom in organic buying and tests some of the latest explosion of ethical
goodies to hit the upermarket shelves BODY: ORGANIC food is turning into the
trendiest flavour of the year, with major supermarket chains racing to stock...

27) WSJ(7/21): THE WALL STREET JOURNAL /NORTHWEST: Environmentalists Plan
Suit Against Timber Panels By Janet I. Tu Staff Reporter of The Wall Street
Journal/Northwest Are the committees that advise the Clinton administration
on the international timber trade green enough?  Not hardly, according to
six environmental groups that have declared their intentions to sue the U.S....

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
28) INTERVIEW-Monsanto to topple Brazil GM soy ruling By Phil Stewart SAO
PAULO, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Co.'s <MTC.N>
Brazil unit says it should soon topple a Brazilian court ruling that has
paralyzed company plans to launch genetically modified (GM) soybean sales
this year. Monsanto's local corporate affairs director Rodrigo Lopes Almeida...

(GREENPEACE)
29) 07/21 MINISTER DENOUNCES `TRASHING' OF TEST GM CROPS By Chris
Hamilton, Parliamentary Staff, PA News Green activists were slammed
by the Government today for "trashing"  genetically modified crop
field trials. Cabinet Office Minister Jack Cunningham told the
Commons at question time that it was a "very serious and difficult
situation". He was speaking after last weekend's...

 OTHERS 

30) The Guardian (London) July 21, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Society Pages; Pg.
5 HEADLINE: Greenwash goes legit BODY: So now it is official - along
with words such as  Viagra and docusoaps, the term 'greenwash' has
entered the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. A decade after the
concept was first mooted by activists, greenwash is explained in the
new edition of the...

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