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Global News Headlines 07/27
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, July 27, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
1) PA 07/27 1249 CALL FOR MORATORIUM ON `POTENTIALLY POISONOUS' PESTICID By
Martin Hickman and Sherna Noah, A voluntary moratorium should be slapped
on organophosphate pesticides following new evidence of their harmful
effects on the health of farmers who used them in sheep dip, MPs said
today. A group of MPs in the All-Party Organophosphate Pesticides Group...
2) Germany finalises phthalates ban for baby toys ENDS Daily - 26/07/99
ermany has forwarded the text of a proposed law prohibiting the use of
phthalate chemical softeners in babies' toys to the EU for approval -
confirming that it will join the group of seven European countries that
have introduced or are in the process of introducing bans. A health...
3) Manufacturers keep up fight on scrap car deal ENDS Daily - 26/07/99 The
European car industry says it is contemplating legal action after senior EU
diplomats struck a compromise on a draft directive governing the recycling
of old cars in Brussels last week (ENDS Daily 22 July). The amended draft
would make car manufacturers take full financial responsibility for...
NUCLEAR POWER
(GREENPEACE)
4) The Dominion (Wellington) July 26, SECTION: FEATURES; EDITORIAL; Pg.8
HEADLINE: Greenpeace paranoia BODY: THERE is more to nuclear energy than
bombs and Chernobyls, and New Zealand would look a little less dotty in the
eyes of the rest of the world if it paid more attention to the facts and
less to the paranoia. Until that happens, every time a ship carrying nuclear...
5) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide
Monitoring July 27, 1999, Tuesday HEADLINE: RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POWER
STATIONS UNAFFECTED BY Y2K COMPUTER BUG BODY: Text of report in English by
Russian news agency RIA Moscow, 26th July: According to the checkup of
security systems which operate Russian nuclear power stations they "do...
6) July 27, 1999, HEADLINE: Don't Turn Russia Into A Pay Toilet, THE ST.
PETERSBURG TIMES BODY: YEVGENY Adamov says Russia doesn't need International
Monetary Fund loans or other Western financing - it can make money importing
and storing the world's nuclear waste. That's right: The nuclear power
minister is volunteering to turn Russia into the world's radioactive...
NUCELAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
7) Agence France Presse July 27, 1999 11:53 GMT SECTION: International news
HEADLINE: China first nuke state to abide by Southeast Asian nuclear
treaty DATELINE: SINGAPORE, July 27 BODY: China announced Tuesday that it
will accede to a Southeast Asian treaty keeping the region a nuclear
weapons free zone. It will become the first nuclear weapons state to...
8) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 27, 1999, Tuesday SECTION: Pg. 16
HEADLINE: International: Beijing has 'sub missiles' BYLINE: By David
Rennie, Beijing BODY: China staked a claim to military superpower status
yesterday with a declaration that it can fire ballistic missiles from
nuclear submarines. The report, by the Xinhua state news agency, came as...
9) The Times (London) July 27, 1999, Tuesday SECTION: Overseas news HEADLINE:
Paying the gas bill with bombers BODY: UKRAINE is willing to give Russia
up to ten Soviet-made strategic bombers to cover part of the country's
debt for Russian natural gas supplies, the Ukrainian Defence Minister said
yesterday. Ukraine owes Russia $ 1.8billion (Pounds 1.14billion) for gas,...
OCEANS
10) Baltic News Service July 27, 1999 HEADLINE: OIL PRODUCTS WASHED ASHORE
FROM JURMALCIEMS TO RUCAVA BODY: Small amount of oil products has been
washed ashore in the Baltic Sea from Jurmalciems to Rucava border
checkpoint, Liepaja regional environment department inspector Maruta
Kaminska told BNS. She said oil products were fresh, but were "in small...
11) The San Francisco Chronicle JULY 27, 1999, FINAL EDITIONSECTION: NEWS; Pg.
A1 HEADLINE: Sea Duck Ebb Alarms Biologists; Population decline blamed on
environmental woes BYLINE: Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer DATELINE:
STATE BODY: Sea ducks, which once flocked along the West Coast in the
millions, have suffered a population crash in recent years, and some...
12) Ameriscan ENS July 26, 1999 TEXAS SHRIMP SEASON BRINGS FOUR-FOLD INCREASE
IN STRANDED TURTLES More than 20 endangered sea turtles washed up dead or
dying along the Texas Coast between July 15 and July 22, despite Governor
George W. Bush's increased enforcement of sea turtle protection laws in
state waters. During an eight week closure of Texas shrimp fishing, an...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
13) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 27, 1999, HEADLINE: ice-president
says measure under way to standardize oil tanker fleet BODY: [] Excerpt from
report in English by the Iranian news agency IRNA Orumiyeh, West Azarbayjan
Province, 20th July: Modifications will be made in Iran's oil tanker fleet
to meet international environmental standards in a bid to prevent...
14) Western Daily Press July 27, EDITION: WDP SEVERNSIDE SECTION: News, Pg.5
HEADLINE: Drivers urged to leave cars at home BYLINE: Matt Holmes BODY: A
CAMPAIGN has been launched in Chepstow to find a way of getting people out
of their cars and into the great outdoors. Monmouthshire county council
has teamed up with Cardiff University to undertake a study of what drives...
15) Xinhua HEADLINE: arctic expedition offers new insight into climate
abnormalities DATELINE: snow dragon ship, july 27; BODY: china's arctic
expedition team will solve some of the mysteries surrounding the water
exchange between the pacific ocean and the arctic ocean through the bering
straits, thus contributing to the study of global climate changes....
16) Xinhua JULY 27, 1999, TUESDAY HEADLINE: sri lankan doctors concerned over
pollution sri lankan medical authorities are concerned over air pollution in
the country's capital city and has urged the government to take action to
reduce the pollution, media ources said tuesday. a recent study on air
pollution by a team of doctors has revealed that air pollution in certain...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
17) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Economic Supplied by BBC Worldwide
Monitoring July 27, 1999, Tuesday HEADLINE: MASS POISONING OF FISH IN
UKRAINIAN RIVER BODY: Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Chernivtsi, 26th July, DINAU-TASS: The Rynhach, a small river running
through Novoselytskyy District, Chernivtsi Region, which abounds in fish,...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
18) The Times (London) July 27, 1999, Tuesday SECTION: Home news HEADLINE:
Peer arrested after raid on GM crop BYLINE: Nick Nuttall BODY: Third
government trial ruined after Greenpeace protesters mow down field of
maize, writes Nick Nuttall. LORD MELCHETT, the head of Greenpeace in
Britain, was being questioned by police last night over his part in a dawn...
(GREENPEACE)
19) Australian Broadcasting Corp Tues July 27 Greenpeace claims win in GM food
fight In Britain, Greenpeace claims its members have seriously damaged a
Government-sponsored program of testing genetically-modified crops. Police
arrested 30 people after Greenpeace protesters broke into a farm in
Norfolk and tore up a field of genetically-modified maize. Three out of...
(GREENPEACE)
20) Reuters Monsanto To Topple Brazil GM Soy Ruling Originally posted in IGC
member conference: misc.activism.progressive Date: July 23, 1999 Posted by:
ab758@virgin.vip.vi /* Written 9:50 AM Jul 23, 1999 by ab758@virgin.vip.vi
in misc.activism.progressive */ "Monsanto to topple Brazil GM soy ruling"
BRAZIL: July 23, 1999 SAO PAULO - U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Co.'s...
21) Tuesday, July 27, National General News *PM-Genetically-Modified-Trees
INDEX: * Environment, Business, Forestry; Genetically altered trees no
longer `pulp fiction' BY By Ed Struzik Edmonton Journal EDMONTON (CP) -
The forests of Canada's future may include stands of genetically engineered
trees that are faster growing, disease resistant, and capable of turning...
22) PA 07/27 0254 PARENTS CONCERNED' OVER GM SCHOOL MEALS By Eileen Murphy,
Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Local councils have received letters and
phone calls from parents concerned about the inclusion of genetically
modified (GM) ingredients in their children's school dinners, a conference
will hear today. Around 250 of the 410 local authorities across England...
23) HEADLINE: FED: Lobby group calls for bans on genetically modified food
BYLINE: By Sonia Field BODY: FOOD (CARRIED EARLIER) SYDNEY, July 27 AAP -
Australia should slap a five-year ban on the introduction of more
genetically modified foods and ensure existing products were clearly
labelled, a new lobby group said today. The Emergency Committee Against...
24) 07/27 UK Activists To Protest Biocrops At Court Hearing Wed LONDON
DowJones --Activists from environmental group Genetix Snowball will
demonstrate outside London's High Court Wednesday in support of four
campaigners who uprooted a trial site of gene-modified sugar beet in
June. The four defendants are accused by biotechnology company,
Monsanto Co. (MTC), of...
25) 07/27 U.S. warns Japan against making GMO labels mandatory TOKYO
Reuters - The United States warned Japan Tuesday that if Tokyo
implements mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) it could mislead consumers about food
safety and disrupt trade. Isi Siddiqui, special assistant for trade
to the U.S. agriculture secretary, expressed concern...
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