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Global News Headlines 08/02
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Monday, August 2, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
(GREENPEACE)
1) The Times (London) August 2, 1999, Monday SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: Greenpeace tour shows Venice in all its refinery BYLINE:
Richard Owen BODY: Richard Owen on a boat trip that offers a memorable
holiday view of the plants accused of polluting the lagoon and canals.
VISITORS to Venice this summer can enjoy a water-borne tour with a...
(GREENPEACE)
2) The Independent (London) August 2, 1999, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 7 HEADLINE:
FISH FARM WASTE SUSPECTED IN POISONING OF SCOTTISH WATERS BYLINE: Ian
Maciver BODY: DONALD MACDONALD was heading for the Western Isles port of
Stornoway, his fishing boat My Siobhon laden with scallops, when a
processing factory phoned him to say that the government had banned all...
3) APf 07/30 1804 Pesticides-Fruit By PHILIP BRASHER WASHINGTON (AP) -- The
government is banning a pesticide sprayed on as much as 30 percent of the
nation's apple crop and cutting back on the widespread use of another
chemical for the control of insects on fruits and vegetables. The actions,
to be announced Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency, stem from...
4) HEALTH: AGROCHEMICALS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN BANANA ... PANAMA CITY, (Jul.
29) IPS - The indiscriminate use of agrochemicals in Panama's
banana plantations has affected the health of hundreds of workers,
turning them into veritable "zombies," according to trade union
officials. Within the banana plantations, there are men who are
walking zombies because disease...
5) U.S. Newswire August 02, 1999 14:02 Eastern Time SECTION: NATIONAL DESK
HEADLINE: Minor Crop Farmer Alliance Statement on EPA Action Restricting
Use of Certain Pesticides BYLINE: Frank Kauffman, 202-828-8804, or Sarah
Delea, 816-665-8476 (cell), or Sarah Hull, 816-474-9407, all for the Minor
Crop Farmer Alliance DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 BODY: The Minor Crop...
6) Ontario Sees Tripling of Hazardous Waste Imports ... OTTAWA (July 31)
XINHUA - Canada's southeastern province of Ontario is becoming a chemical
garbage dump for the U.S., according to a local newspaper "Ottawa Citizen"
Saturday. Hazardous waste imports from the U.S. nearly tripled between 1994
and 1998, from 85,000 tons to 230,000, the newspaper reported. Ontario's...
NUCLEAR POWER
7) APO 07/30 1610 Utah Radioactive Waste Removal Urged By MATT KELLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A huge pile of uranium mill tailings near the Colorado
River in Utah is a "radioactive time bomb" that must be moved to protect
drinking water for Nevada, Arizona and Southern California, a water
official told lawmakers Friday. But federal regulators said the 10.5...
8) The Mirror August 2, 1999, SECTION: NEWS; Pg.18 HEADLINE: NUKE PLANT BEACH
HOTSPOT 'COULD KILL' BYLINE: Claire Donnelly BODY: A POTENTIALLY lethal
speck of radioactive material has been picked up at a popular tourist beach
near the Dounreay nuclear plant. The tiny hotspot is the fourth to be
found on Sandside Beach, Caithness. And although smaller than a grain of...
9) Canadian Press Newswire Monday, August 2, 1999 National General News
PM-Plutonium-Canada code:3; TOR OUT; YYY; INDEX: Environment, Technology,
Defence, International; Plutonium would be Canada's forever, but storage
site lacking TORONTO (CP) - Senior federal officials assured the United
States that surplus plutonium from Russian and U.S. weapons used in...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
(GREENPEACE)
10) Inter Press Service August 1, 1999, Sunday HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT: NUKE
SHIPMENTS SAIL INTO SOUTH PACIFIC'S IRE BYLINE: By Debbie Singh DATELINE:
SUVA, Fiji, Aug. 1 BODY: South Pacific activists and governments are
seeking tougher international legal action against nuclear shipments, amid
alarm over two ships carrying nuclear fuel that are due to pass through...
(GREENPEACE)
11) BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide
Monitoring July 31, 1999, Saturday HEADLINE: NORTH KOREA: ANTI-NUCLEAR
BODY DENOUNCES JAPAN'S PLUTONIUM SHIPMENT BODY: Text of statement by the
Korea Anti-Nuclear Peace Committee on Japan's plutonium shipment issued
in Pyongyang on 30th July - read by announcer; broadcast by North Korean...
12) Antinuclear Conferences Open in Japan TOKYO (Aug. 2) XINHUA - The Japan
Congress Against A and H Bombs (Gensuikin) on Monday opened a two-day
international conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, calling for efforts
to make the 21st century free of nuclear weapons and wars, the Kyodo News
Service reported. Some 110 antinuclear advocates and academics, including...
13) Ambassadors send peace messages to Hiroshima HIROSHIMA, Aug. 1 (Kyodo) --
By: Maya Kaneko An exhibition of peace messages sent to Hiroshima by
ambassadors from 44 countries to Japan opened Sunday at the Peace Memorial
Museum. The envoys, including those of India and Pakistan, which conducted
nuclear tests last year, contributed the peace messages in response to a...
14) PA 08/02 1812 NATO RIFT `COULD HAVE CAUSED WORLD WAR' By Bob Roberts,
Chief Political Correspondent, PA News Labour MPs today claimed a row
between Lieutenant General Sir Mike Jackson and Nato Supreme Commander
General Wesley Clark revealed the "perilous" risks of a world war being
sparked over the Kosovo conflict. According to reports today Gen Jackson...
15) Japan Economic Newswire August 2, 1999, Monday HEADLINE: Hiroshima group
to help nuclear victims in Kazakstan DATELINE: HIROSHIMA, Aug. 2 Kyodo
BODY: A civic group in Hiroshima plans to visit the former Soviet
republic of Kazakstan late this month to provide medical equipment and
drugs to more than 300,000 people believed to suffer illnesses from...
16) BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide
Monitoring August 2, 1999, Monday HEADLINE: JAPAN: PROTESTERS GREET
ARRIVAL OF US DESTROYER IN KYOTO BODY: Text of report in English by the
Japanese news agency Kyodo yoto, 2nd August: The US destroyer Cushing
visited the port of Maizuru in Kyoto prefecture on Monday 2nd August...
17) The Washington Times August 02, 1999, Final Edition SECTION: PART A; Pg. A1
HEADLINE: British 'supergerm' is created for defense; Genetically modified
organisms tested BYLINE: Joe Murphy; LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH DATELINE:
LONDON BODY: LONDON - Britain's Ministry of Defense has disclosed that it
is creating lethal genetically modified (GM) organisms in a secret...
OCEANS
18) August 2, 1999, HEADLINE:Earth's "frozen burps" could be ticking time
bombs or vast energy source BYLINE: By Joern Freyenhagen, dpa BODY: Whoever
thought a bubble might be behind the mysterious disappearances in the
Bermuda Triangle or the cause of deadly natural catastrophies - or that the
same bubbles may turn out to be huge sources of energy? Scientists who have...
19) The Independent (London) August 2, 1999, Monday SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 7
HEADLINE: UK PLAGUED WITH HUGE ALGAE BLOOMS; POLLUTION: AGRICULTURAL
FERTILIZERS BLAMED FOR OUTBREAKS OF TOXIC ALGAE, INCLUDING ONE SO BIG IT
IS VISIBLE FROM SPACE BYLINE: Gary Finn BODY: GROWING agricultural
pollution is responsible for the increasing numbers of toxic algal blooms...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
20) Aberdeen Press and Journal July 31, 1999 SECTION: Business: companies,
Pg.21 HEADLINE: Wave firms join forces with Greenpeace BODY: GREENPEACE
is to collaborate with Scottish wave-power firms in a bid to lobby for
greater uptake of this alternative source of energy. The companies
involved are Wavegen, of Inverness, and Ocean Power Delivery, which is...
(GREENPEACE)
21) 08/02 Greenpeace Slams Cyprus Energy Policy NICOSIA, Cyprus
(Reuters) - Cyprus pumps more carbon dioxide pollutants into the
atmosphere than many other developed countries, including the United
States, Greenpeace said Monday. Cyprus's C02 emissions were nine tons
per capita in 1997, much higher than that of the United States which
produced 5.4 tons, and...
22) Agence France Presse August 02, HEADLINE:High temperatures cause pollution,
drought, fires in Europe BODY: High temperatures again hit swathes of Europe
on Monday, with a dozen people dead in Turkey, fires in Germany and a
pollution alert slapped on France. In France, where summer holidaymakers
crammed roads during what is traditionally the country's busiest weekend,...
23) 08/02 Shell Moves Into Indian, Sri Lankan Renewable Energy Mkts
LONDON (Dow Jones)--A subsidiary of Anglo Dutch major Royal
Dutch/Shell Group (RD), Shell Renewables, has established a
marketing presence in the Sri Lankan and Indian markets, a company
spokesman said Monday. In India, Shell Renewables has opened a
wholly-owned subsidiary in Bangalore. Shell...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
24) APO 07/30 Indian Villagers Oppose Dam By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM JALSINDHI,
India (AP) -- Three generations of Pairvi Bhulap's family have worshipped
the Narmada River. Now it may submerge her home. A government project to
raise the height of the massive Sardar Sarovar Dam down river has noble
aims: to bring drinking water to 40 million people, irrigate land and...
25) AAP NEWSFEED August 2, 1999, Monday SECTION: Nationwide General News;
Australian General News HEADLINE: FED: Conservationists have a lot to
answer for, says Katter BODY: JOBS KATTER BRISBANE, Aug 2 AAP -
Conservationists were partly responsible for Australia's world record
youth suicide rate because they forced regional industries to close,...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
26) The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) July 31, 1999, Saturday SECTION:
BUSINESS; Pg. D11 HEADLINE: Gerber says no to genetic engineering BYLINE:
Associated Press BODY: SUMMIT, N.J. -- Gerber, the nation's largest
maker of baby food, is dropping suppliers who use genetic engineering in
their corn and soybean products. The move by Gerber parent Novartis AG of...
(GREENPEACE)
27) The Economist July 31, 1999, U.S. Edition HEADLINE: Brazil's gene genie
BODY: SOYA growers in Brazil, the world's second-largest producer of the
bean, grumble about high debts and low prices. Unsurprisingly, many hope
they may be able to cut their costs by using genetically modified (GM)
seeds. But others note consumer resistance to GM foods in Europe, the main...
(GREENPEACE)
28) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 31, 1999,SECTION: Pg. 19 HEADLINE: Blue
blood wants us to be green Lord Melchett's headline grabbing indicates a
top-level decision by Greenpeace to change pace, report Hugh Davies and
Charles Clover BYLINE: By Hugh Davies and Charles Clover BODY:AS ARISTOCRATS
go, the fourth Baron Melchett has never been much of a conformist. He pooh...
(GREENPEACE)
29) The Independent (London) July 31, 1999, Saturday SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: MONITOR: GREENPEACE DEMONSTRATION; CRITICISM OF LORD MELCHETT'S
ARREST FOLLOWING A GREENPEACE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST GENETICALLY MODIFIED
CROPS BYLINE: Sally Chatterton BODY: The Daily Telegraph LORD MELCHETT
evidently hopes to inspire mass civil disobedience. But if Greenpeace had...
(GREENPEACE)
30) Press Association Newsfile July 31, 1999, HEADLINE: 'NON-GM CROPS' DAMAGED
IN PROTEST AT FARM BYLINE: Matthew Cooper, BODY: More than 40 environmental
protesters were arrested today after crops were damaged at a farm growing
genetically- modified maize. They were detained on suspicion of causing
criminal damage after up to 50 protesters gathered at Home Farm, Spital in...
31) The Times (London) August 2, SECTION: Home news HEADLINE: Attacks on GM
crops spread to US and France BYLINE: Nick Nuttall,environment correspondent
BODY: DIRECT action against genetically modified crops in Britain is
inspiring similar raids overseas, it emerged last night, as police charged
45 people with conspiracy to damage crops in a bungled attack on a
farm in...
32) APO 07/30 1837 EU OKs Gene-Technology Patents MUNICH, Germany (AP) --
Genetically altered plants and animals can be patented in the European
Union beginning Sept. 1, the European Patent Office said Friday. The
office's administrative council made the decision based on a policy adopted
a year ago by the EU. Christian Gugerell, director of the office's...
33) Japan Economic Newswire August 2, 1999, HEADLINE: Japan to name 28 food
products for GMO labeling BODY: Corn snacks, tofu and 26 other foods will
become subject to mandated labeling for genetically modified organisms
(GMOs) starting next April, according to a government draft made available
Monday from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The draft...
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