Global News Headlines 07/29

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Thursday, July 29, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

1) APf  07/28 1907  Pesticides-Tap Water By LIBBY QUAID WASHINGTON (AP) --
Tap water across the Midwest is contaminated by dangerously high levels of
weed killer that pose a cancer risk to bottle-fed babies, an environmental
group said Wednesday. The group's president urged the Environmental
Protection Agency to ban atrazine and noted that water utilities are...

2) Belgium says 175 more farms blocked in dioxin scare BRUSSELS, July 29
(Reuters) - Belgium has quarantined a further 175 poultry and pig farms
amid renewed concern about food and animal feed contaminated with the
cancer-causing chemical dioxin, a government source said on Thursday.
"This information was submitted to the European Union's Standing Veterinary...

3) 07/29  DJ Nestle Malaysia To Continue Testing For Toxic PCBs KUALA
LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Nestle (Malaysia)(P.NSM) Bhd. will continue to
test its milk-based products for toxic pcbs for at least two more
months following a health scare in Europe that forced the food giant
to pull some brands from store shelves around the world, a company
official said. We will  continue...

4) Calgary Herald July 29, FINAL SECTION:  News; A13 HEADLINE: Pesticides not
properly tested, Sierra Club says BYLINE: Leanne Yohemas-Hayes, The Canadian
Press DATELINE: OTTAWA  BODY:  Tanya Marder is dying. The 47-year-old had
breast cancer in the early  '90s. After a few years of remission, tumours
spread from her solar plexus  to groin -- making her look, for a time, she...

5) Ameriscan ENS July 28 1999 MACHINE MELTS AWAY HAZARDOUS WASTE  A new
prototype product can convert hazardous waste into glass, metals and
electricity without contributing to air pollution. The Plasma-Enhanced
Melter, built by Integrated Environmental Technologies, LLC (IET) in
Richland, Washington, uses electrical heat to transform the chemical energy...

6) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political  Supplied by BBC Worldwide
Monitoring July  29,  1999, Thursday HEADLINE: RUSSIAN TV REPORTS ON
ECOLOGICAL  DAMAGE CAUSED  BY AIR RAIDS IN YUGOSLAVIA BODY: Text of  report
by Russian Public TV on  28th July Presenter A joint team of the  United
Nations Environment  Programme and the UN Centre for Human  Settlements,...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

7) Lithuania N-plant gets first international licence VILNIUS, July 29
(Reuters) - Lithuania's Soviet-built Ignalina nuclear power plant received
its first internationally certified operating licence on Thursday, allowing
its number one reactor to return to operation. The issuing of the  licence
was due to be completed by May 17, but had been postponed by  Lithuania's...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

(GREENPEACE)
8) 07/29 Navy: New Sonar System No Problem By MARTHA BELLISLE LOS
ANGELES (AP) - A new sonar system designed to detect the latest
generation of near-silent enemy submarines should not endanger marine
life and human divers exposed to the loud pulses, the Navy has
concluded. But the environmental impact statement on the system, to
be published Friday, already is drawing...

9) N.Korea says Japan plutonium a military ploy TOKYO, July 29 (Reuters)  -
North Korea on Thursday denounced Japanese shipments of plutonium from
Europe as a disguised attempt to turn itself into a nuclear military power
and conquer Asia. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman told the
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Tokyo, criticised the...

10) OTC  07/29 Russia says NATO has no justification for war in ... B O N N,
July 29 (Itar-Tass) -- "Inter-ethnic conflicts exist in many countries, not
only in the Balkans. In our view, there was no real  excuse for the NATO
military action against Yugoslavia," Russian  Minister of Foreign Affairs
Igor Ivanov said in an interview published  in today's issue of the German...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
11) The Washington Times July  29, 1999, Thursday, Final  Edition SECTION: PART
A; COMMENTARY; Pg. A20 HEADLINE: Feeding the green  money tree BYLINE:
James Sheehan and Paul Georgia  BODY: The  Clinton-Gore administration
continues to thumb it nose at the Constitution  by trying to implement a
global warming treaty (the Kyoto Protocol) that  has not been ratified by...

12) The Calgary Sun July  29, 1999, Thursday, Final  EDITION SECTION: NEWS, Pg.
SE11 HEADLINE: CHANGE FOR THE BETTER BYLINE:  KATE ROWLAND, CALGARY SUN
BODY: Major initiatives are being undertaken  in the area of renewable
energy by corporations entrenched, until recently,  in the processing and
sale of fossil fuels. Here are a few of many  worthy of special note:  *...

13) The Age July 30  Global warming freshens  oceans By PENNY  FANNIN  SCIENCE
REPORTER Vast areas of the  Earth's oceans are losing their salinity as
global warming increases rainfall over the Southern Ocean and South Pacific.
Australian oceanographers have conducted the world's most comprehensive
study of rainfall over the oceans and found it had increased by about...

14) The Guardian (London) July  29, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages; Pg. 20
HEADLINE: Apocalypse now; George  Monbiot The earth is dying, yet those who
spread this message are treated as dangerous and mad BODY: The global
meltdown has begun. Long predicted and long denied, the effects of climate
change are arriving faster than even the gloomiest prophets expected. This...

15) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 29, SECTION: Pg. 03 HEADLINE: Connected:
Eco electric clutches at  straw A pounds 60m power plant that burns straw
instead of fossil fuels  does not add to global warming  and uses local
resources that would go to  waste. Jon Pratty reports BYLINE: By Jon Pratty
BODY: Britain's first, and  the world's biggest, straw-fired power station...

16) 122 Companies Responsible for Nearly 80 Percent of ...  WASHINGTON,
July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The world's major energy  companies
contribute more to global warming than many developing  countries,
according to a report released today by the Natural  Resources
Defense Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the  U.S.
Public Interest Research Group Education...

17) The Calgary Sun July 29, Final EDITION SECTION: NEWS, Pg. SE10 HEADLINE:
HARNESSING THE WIND BYLINE:  LEANNE WILKINSON, CALGARY SUN BODY: Hello,
passengers. This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard the Kyoto
Agreement. Canadians on board can hope to arrive at their destination of a
six percent reduction in total greenhouse gases from 1990 levels by the year...

18) Ameriscan ENS July 28 1999 SUMMER AIR POLLUTION PUTS CHILDREN AT RISK
Increased electricity use in the summer is linked to health problems in
children, several environmental groups say. The groups, which include the
Safe Energy Communication Council (SECC), the Clean Air Council and the
Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia, have launched a radio...

19) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE US Energy dept. wants  progress on  renewable fuels
USA: July 29, 1999  WASHINGTON - Inconsistent federal policy  and erratic
funding for renewable fuels research are imperilling the nation's long-term
energy security, a Department of Energy  official said yesterday. Richard
Truly, director of DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden,Co.,...

20) The Calgary Sun July  29, 1999, Thursday, Final  EDITION SECTION: NEWS,
Pg.  SE17 HEADLINE: THE HEAT'S ON BIOMASS BYLINE:  PAUL WELLS, CALGARY SUN
BODY:  Although utilizing plant material or  organic  wastes in the
production of  energy isn't a new technology, it is  increasing in scope.
And that's  because the benefits of biomass  technology are two-fold --...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

21) Ameriscan ENS July 28 1999 RAINFOREST WOOD FOR NYC BENCHES, BOARDWALKS
CHALLENGED  Virgin wood from tropical rainforests is ending up as benches
and boardwalks in New York City (NYC), the New York based conservation
group Rainforest Relief says. NYC's Department of Transportation (DOT) is
using wood logged in the Amazon rainforests in Guyana and Brazil for a new...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
22) The Times (London) July  28, 1999, Wednesday SECTION: Features HEADLINE:
The seeds of insanity BYLINE: Simon Jenkins  BODY: Hysteria over vital
research into GM crops reveals Britain at its  most illogical How would you
feel if a Member of the House of Lords  arrived on your property before
dawn with friends and heavy cutting equipment, and set about destroying it...

(GREENPEACE)
23) BBC, On-line, Thursday, July 29,1999 Head to head: Making  waves  Direct
action: a democratic principle, or the tyranny  of a  minority? Campaigners
used to stage a demonstration if they wanted to get their point across.Now,
they feel so strongly about their causes they are  more likely  to  camp in
trees to stop bypasses; wreck fields of corn to prevent genetically-modified...

24) Citizens' group urges law on genetically altered food TOKYO, July 29
(Kyodo) -- A citizens' group on Thursday urged the  government to draft
legislation to regulate genetically modified food,  saying its survey found
that snacks made of genetically altered corn  not recognized yet as safe
are being sold across Japan. Speaking at a press conference, Setsuko...

25) PA 07/29 1600  GREEN WARNING ON `FRANKENFISH' EXPERIMENTS By PA News
Reporter. Britain's sole Green parliamentarian today warned of an
"environmental nightmare" after details of secret research into so-called
"Frankenfish" were revealed. Robin Harper, a Green Member of the  Scottish
Parliament, demanded a full list of all experiments involving  genetic...

26) Pty Limited The Canberra Times  July  29, 1999, Thursday Edition SECTION:
Part A; Page 2 HEADLINE: ACT  LEADS FIGHT ON GM FOOD LABELLING BYLINE:
CATRIONA JACKSON  BODY: Health  Reporter The ACT will lead the charge  to
label  genetically  modified  oods, at next Tuesday's Australia-New
Zealand Food Standards Council  meeting, in Canberra. Health Minister...

27) National Post July  29, 1999 NATIONAL@SERIES=  EDITIONS SECTION: FINANCIAL
POST: COMMENT; Pg. C07 HEADLINE: The science is sound  BODY: In 1994, the
FlavrSavr tomato became the first whole, genetically engineered food to be
approved  by the FDA and, subsequently,  Health Canada. Results of rodent
feeding trials, submitted as part of the data set that regulators reviewed,...

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