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Global News Headlines 08/08
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Sunday, August 8, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
1) OTC 08/07 2002 ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: ACTIVISTS APPLAUD BAN ON FUNGICIDE
SANTIAGO, (Aug. 6) IPS - Environmental groups in Chile applauded a
government ban on a dangerous fungicide already prohibited in a number of
countries worldwide, and accused logging companies of pressuring
authorities in an attempt to block the measure. The Alliance for a Better...
2) 08/07 Belgium to limit list of food products needed to be... By RAF
CASERT BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The government said Saturday that it
would not adhere to EU-imposed guidelines on the testing of exports
for dioxin, putting Belgium on a collision course with the EU
Commission over food safety standards. In an abrupt turn-around a
day after Belgium officially...
3) 08/06 BP Amoco Acknowledges Cancer Cases By JAMES WEBB NAPERVILLE,
Ill. (AP) -- BP Amoco health officials have acknowledged that six
employees probably got deadly brain cancer from their work in one
wing of the company's sprawling research center in suburban Chicago.
Lawyers representing a number of former Amoco employees or their
survivors offered...
NUCLEAR POWER
4) The Ottawa Citizen August 07, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A1 / Front
HEADLINE: Chalk River 'a race against time': Plan to clean up nuclear
site 5 years behind schedule BYLINE: Mohammed Adam BODY: Plans to
decommission the contaminated Chalk River plutonium processing plant, in
which four workers inhaled radioactive dust, are still not complete, five...
5) The Ottawa Citizen August 07, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A3 HEADLINE:
Protective suits 'highly dependable' BYLINE: Greg Younger-Lewis BODY:
Four atomic energy workers, recently exposed to the maximum amount of
radiation allowed in a year over the course of two hours, wore ''highly
dependable'' protective wear known only to fail when put on or taken off...
6) 08/08 Workers exposed to plutonium at U.S. plant - report
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Thousands of uranium workers were unwittingly
exposed to plutonium and other highly radioactive metals at a
federally owned plant in Kentucky over two decades from the
mid-1950s, the Washington Post said Sunday. The newspaper, citing
court documents, plant records and...
7) British Energy slammed in safety report - paper LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) A
damning draft safety report says nuclear power generator British Energy
Plc has cut so many staff jobs at its power stations that there are not
enough people to run the stations safely, the Sunday Times said. The
report by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), seen by the...
8) 08/08 Nuke Reactor Vessel Finishes Trip By LINDA ASHTON RICHLAND,
Wash. (AP) -- A decommissioned 1,000-ton nuclear reactor vessel
finished its voyage up the Columbia River on Sunday, docking safely
just miles from a burial site for radioactive waste. It took about
36 hours for tugs to bring the vessel, emptied of its uranium fuel,
up 270 miles of river from...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
(GREENPEACE)
9) THE ORLANDO SENTINEL August 7, 1999 Saturday, METRO SECTION: A SECTION;
Pg. A16 HEADLINE: PROTESTERS DECRY NUKES BODY: GRAPHIC: PHOTO: A
Greenpeace protester in Cape Town, South Africa, wears a mask Friday
during a march in opposition to a British ship carrying nuclear waste
through the nation's waters en route to Japan. ASSOCIATED PRESS LANGUAGE:...
10) 08/07 Museum Store Pulls A-Bomb Earrings By CHRIS ROBERTS KIRTLAND
AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) -- Souvenir earrings with tiny silver
replicas of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan will no longer be sold
at the National Atomic Museum. Friday's decision to pull the earrings
comes on the 54th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The
earrings -- shaped like...
11) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 7, 1999, Saturday SECTION: Pg. 1
HEADLINE: 50,000 mourn in Hiroshima Pledges for peace made, prayers
offered for A-bomb victims BYLINE: Yomiuri DATELINE: HIROSHIMA BODY:
About 50,000 people, including atomic-bomb survivors, bereaved family
members from around the country, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and...
12) Japan Economic Newswire August 7, 1999, Saturday HEADLINE: Radioactive
waste may leak into Sea of Japan: report DATELINE: MOSCOW, Aug. 7 Kyodo
BODY: A total of 750 tons of radioactive waste have leaked from a safe
area in a processing ship anchored at a port near Vladivostok and may
contaminate the entire Sea of Japan if left unchecked, a Russian newspaper...
13) U.S. nuclear plant may have exposed 2 mil. residents NAGASAKI, Aug. 7
(Kyodo) -- A nuclear plant in the U.S. state of Washington that produced
plutonium for nuclear weapons from 1944 to 1972 probably exposed as many
as 2 million people to radioactivity, an American health official said
Saturday. Sandy Rock, a physician working at the state-run Public Health...
14) 08/08 Global Weapons Sales Decline - Report By Tim Loughran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conventional weapons sales to developing
nations fell last year in dollar terms to the lowest levels since
1991 amid intense price competition in the arms trade and budget
constraints in the developing world, an official U.S. report said.
"Competition...continues to intensify...
15) The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) August 7, 1999, SATURDAY, FINAL
EDITION SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A4 HEADLINE: RACISM ISSUE RAISED IN U.S.
PUERTO RICAN WAR GAMES BYLINE: Eric Rosenberg Hearst Newspapers DATELINE:
WASHINGTON BODY: The attorney general of Puerto Rico charged Friday that
the Navy's use of the U.S. commonwealth's island of Vieques for gunnery...
OCEANS
16) 08/08 Canada Blocks Fishing On Key Pacific Salmon Run VANCOUVER
(Reuters) - Canada barred fishing on an important Pacific Ocean
salmon species Friday after officials determined fewer fish returned
to their river spawning grounds than had been expected. Commercial
and recreational fishermen were ordered not to catch sockeye salmon
bound for the Fraser...
17) 08/06 Mediterranean Seeing New Species By ANNIE RUDERMAN ROME (AP)
-- The Mediterranean is on its way to becoming a tropical aquarium,
with 110 newcomer species from the tropics threatening to crowd out
native species less suited to the ever- warmer and more polluted
water, experts warned today. Biologists spotted the Mediterranean's
first species of tropical...
18) HEADLINE: FED: Dems Senator calls for Great Barrier Reef inquiry BODY:
REEF CANBERRA, Aug 8 AAP - An urgent senate inquiry into the growing
environmental problems threatening the Great Barrier Reef was called for
today by Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett. Senator Bartlett the party's
environment spokesman, said he would press his fellow Democrats to move...
19) Agence France Presse August 07, 1999 12:11 GMT HEADLINE: Fiji, the world's
major exporter of coral, moves to ban the trade BYLINE: Asha Lakhan BODY:
Fiji is the world's major exporter of coral and the trade pumps millions
of dollars into the economy, but it is depleting fish life and destroying
its reefs, regarded as some of the most beautiful in the world. While the...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
20) Pty Limited The Canberra Times August 7, 1999, Saturday Edition SECTION:
Part A; Page 6 HEADLINE: MAKE POLLUTERS PAY, URGES REPORT BYLINE: LINCOLN
WRIGHT BODY: Australia could afford to scrap or drastically reduce
payroll tax by requiring polluters to pay for permits to emit greenhouse
gases, a new report has revealed. Issued by the Canberra think-tank, the...
21) AP Worldstream August 07, 1999; HEADLINE: Danish geographers investigating
fast-moving glacier BYLINE: CHRISTIAN WIENBERG BODY: Moving as fast as 30
meters (100 feet) a day, a speedster glacier in Greenland is puzzling Danish
geographers. Some glaciers don't move that far in a year. Others, known as
'searching glaciers,' pick up the pace considerably, but they're rare...
22) National Post August 07, 1999 Saturday NATIONAL@SERIES= EDITIONS
SECTION: FINANCIAL POST: COMMENT; Pg. D07 HEADLINE: New heat on global
warming: Despite Environment Canada's dire warnings, atmospheric
physicist S. Fred Singer says global warming is still suspect -- and a
new study shows a hotter climate could be beneficial S. Fred Singer, PhD,...
23) 08/07 Experts Call For Indonesia To Face Court Over Smog By Claudia
Gazzini JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Sumatra residents wore masks
to keep out a choking smog from forest fires Friday, as environmental
monitors called for Indonesia to face an international court over
what is becoming an annual disaster. An official at an Indonesian
environmental watchdog...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
24) AP August 7, 1999, HEADLINE: In thirsty Mideast, water could prove big
impediment to peace BYLINE: By LAURA KING, BODY: The patriarch of a
Palestinian clan peers mournfully into the well behind his family home,
lowering and lowering a plastic bucket until he is rewarded -finally -
with a faint splash. He raws it up and carefully washes a bunch of grapes...
25) The New York Times August 8, 1999, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION:
Section 4; Page 16; Column 1; Week in Review Desk EADLINE: The Nation;
It's Raining Farm Subsidies BYLINE: By TIM WEINER DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY: CITY slickers may think there was some connection between the
withered cornstalks they saw on the nightly news last week and the...
26) Xinhua AUGUST 7, 1999, HEADLINE: dead sea shrinking at alarming rate
BODY: the dead sea, the saltiest body of water on earth and world-
renowned tourist resort, is shrinking at an alarming rate and might
disappear in 20-25 years, jordan times reported saturday. landlocked in
the jordan valley between israel and jordan, the dead sea has shrunk to...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
27) 08/06 Irish police probe Monsanto GM crop attack DUBLIN, Ireland
(Reuters) - Irish police said Friday they were investigating
extensive damage to a trial sugar beet crop belonging to Monsanto,
the giant U.S. life sciences corporation. The crop, on a farm in
Arthurstown in the southern county of Wexford, was sprayed with a
petrol-based chemical...
28) Pty Limited The Canberra Times August 7, 1999, Saturday Edition SECTION:
Part C; Page 3 HEADLINE: WHO'S AFRAID OF A LITTLE FRANKENFOOD? BODY: OH
STOP being such namby-pambies about genetically modified food. Who is
afraid of a little old wolf gene in our lamb chops? What, precisely, is so
awful about the thought of a potato that is one-trillionth Arctic flounder?...
29) Pty Limited The Canberra Times August 7, 1999, Saturday Edition SECTION:
Part C; Page 1 HEADLINE: MODIFIED FOOD: GROPING IN THE DARK; PICTURE:
RICHARD BRIGGS; TELL US WHAT WE'RE EATING: PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE HEALTH
MINISTERS' MEETING DEMAND THAT ALL GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD BE CLEARLY
LABELLED. BODY: THEIR latest decision on labelling of genetically...
OTHER
30) The New York Times August 8, 1999, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION:
Section 4; Page 3; Column 1; Week in Review Desk HEADLINE: The World;
Tying Down Gulliver With Those Pesky Treaties BYLINE: By BARBARA
CROSSETTE DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS BODY: HAVE we that is, Americans --
got a really serious problem with the rest of the world? Over the last...
31) Pty Limited The Canberra Times August 7, 1999, Saturday Edition SECTION:
Part A; Page 6 HEADLINE: THE POOR BODY: For more than 20 years the EU has
helped small West Indian banana growers scratch a living by favouring
imports of their fruit. As farmers of poor soils on steep hillsides, they
cannot compete with cheaper fruit grown on giant estates in Latin America...
32) Pty Limited The Canberra Times August 7, 1999, Saturday Edition SECTION:
Part A; Page 5 HEADLINE: THE HIDDEN TENTACLES OF A SUPER POWER; IT CAN
STOP US CHOOSING WHAT WE EAT, STRIKE DOWN OUR LAWS AND LAUNCH TRADE WARS.
GEOFFREY LEAN EXAMINES THE WORLD TRADE; ORGANISATION AND ITS CONTROL OVER
THE LIVES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE. BODY: BEHIND the imposing entrance of a...
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