Global News Headlines 08/09

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Monday, August 9, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 TOXICS 

1) IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS ABOUT HORMONE CHANGING CHEMICALS  WASHINGTON, DC,
August 6, 1999 (ENS) - Too little is known about the effects of exposure to
low doses of chemicals that change the balance of hormones in the human
body, says a new report from a National Research Council committee. These
chemicals include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the pesticide DDT....

2) Sport fish carry toxic risk for diners WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 8  (UPI)
Purdue University researchers say 10 percent of all Indiana residents may
be exposed to toxic compounds by eating fish caught in the wild. Purdue
Cooperative Extension Service specialist Charles Santerre says the roughly
600,000 Hoosiers who eat sport fish may be exposed to polychlorinated...

3) The Ottawa Citizen August  09, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A3 HEADLINE: PCB
fears hamper project: Cornwall plant seeks  right to burn dense toxic waste
BYLINE: Jennifer Pritchett  BODY: A  hazardous waste-disposal plant in  one
of Canada's ''toxic hot spots'' may  soon get the go-ahead to burn the
highest concentration of PCBs in  Ontario's history. Material Resource...

4) The Boston Globe August 9, 1999, City Edition SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B1
HEADLINE: Endangered birds find a home at polluted base BYLINE: By Yvonne
Abraham, Globe Staff BODY: SANDWICH - The Massachusetts Military Reservation
is not a very pretty place. Much of it seems barren, marked by huge swaths
of bald ground, plenty of paved roads, and squat, drab buildings.Nor is it...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
5) Environmental Groups Protest Against Nuclear Shipment CAPE TOWN, South
Africa (PANA, 08/09/99) - South Africa's Green Party  has joined
Greenpeace, Earthlife Africa and other members of the newly  formed
Coalition Against the Shipment of Nuclear Fuel in calling on the  South
African government to intervene to prevent two nuclear fuel ships  from...

6) The Guardian (London) August  9, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Home Pages; Pg. 3
HEADLINE:  Plutonium  harmless, say  scientists who breathed it BYLINE:
Rory Carroll  BODY: Rory Carroll  Supporters of  nuclear  power  yesterday
said they had been vindicated by a  pioneering experiment in  which two
British scientists inhaled  plutonium  to mimic the effects of a  nuclear...

7) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August  10, 1999 Tuesday SECTION:
Pg. 38 HEADLINE: 1% science and 99% politics SOURCE: The Bulletin ABSTRACT:
British Government-funded Pangea Resources' hopes to store nuclear waste in
Australia are based on "one per cent science and 99% politics". According
to professor of earth and planetary sciences at the Macquarie University,...

8) Australians use camel humps to fight nuclear dumps ADELAIDE, Aug 9 Reuters
Eight Australian women on Monday set off on camels on a 1,000 km (620
miles) trek through desert lands to protest government plans to establish a
national radioactive waste dump in the central Australian outback.Organisers
of the "Humps not Dumps" anti-nuclear camel expeditionsaid the trek would...

9) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE BNFL readies for resumed  German nuke  waste cargoes
UK: August 9, 1999  LONDON - British Nuclear  Fuels (BNFL) is  sending an
empty  container used for  transporting nuclear waste to  Germany,  Nuclear
newsagency NucNet said.  The move could reignite the  anti-nuclear feelings
that led to  suspension of German  nuclear waste shipments  over a year...

10) 08/09 DJ NRC:New Policy For Nuclear Plants That Are Not Y2K Ready NEW
 YORK (Dow Jones)--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a 
regulatory policy for the 35 nuclear power plants that did not report
Y2K  readiness by the July 1 deadline, the NRC said in a press
release. For  the 13 plants with a projected Y2K completion date
between July 1 and Sept.  30,...

11) FOCUS-British Energy plants safe, say inspectors  (Adds statements from
inspectorate, British Energy) LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Britain's  Nuclear
Installations Inspectorate said on Sunday British Energy's (BGY.L)  nuclear
plants were safe but the impact of recent job cuts on future safety
standards was being studied. Earlier, the Sunday Times said a report  by...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

12) APO  08/09 0328  Nagasaki Prays for World Peace By YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO
(AP) -- Residents of Nagasaki joined in a prayer for peace today, the 54th
anniversary of the second atomic bomb attack on Japan in the closing days
of World War II. Our city of Nagasaki was instantly transformed into
charred ruins," Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito said in a commemorative ceremony...

13) WHAT THE PAPERS SAY August  9, 1999, Monday SECTION: PRESS EXTRACTS
HEADLINE: THE EAST IS GLOWING SOURCE: Izvestia,  August 7, 1999, p. 1
BYLINE: Oleg Zhunusov, Sergei Leskov  HIGHLIGHT: THE  DANGER OF RADIATION
POLLUTION  OF THE SEA OF JAPAN MAKES THE DEFENSE  MINISTRY ALLOW RUSSIAN
SCIENTISTS IMPROVE THE SITUATION BY MEANS OF THE  NOT-YET-TESTED...

14) 08/09 Clinton Prods Senate on Nuke Treaty By TOM RAUM WASHINGTON (AP)
 -- President Clinton prodded the Senate today to move on a
long-stalled treaty to ban nuclear testing worldwide, telling a
military ceremony it would "strengthen national security, not only of
the United States, but of people around the world." Clinton asked the
Senate Foreign Relations...

15) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts August  09, 1999, Monday HEADLINE:
'People's Daily' links Blair's "third way" to Kosovo war, hegemonism BODY:
4] Tony Blair's "third way" between left and right wings contains the
germs of a hegemonistic approach to international relations aimed at
spreading Western notions internationally, China's leading daily
newspaper has said....

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

(GREENPEACE)
16) Toledo Blade Loggers, naturalists spar over rain forest  August 8, 1999
BY TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER PRINCE  RUPERT, B.C. - Stand on the
outskirts of this little western Canadian city and you see nothing but
miles of lush, green trees. Thousands of them are 200 feet tall and
centuries old. They shoot into the sky, slicing through a blanket of...

17) THE JAKARTA POST August 9, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE: Six Sumatran
tigers die in reservation BODY: JAKARTA (JP): Conservancy activists in
Lampung sounded the alarm on Saturday over the disclosure that six rare
Sumatran tigers had died in the Way Kambas forest reserve over the past
three years, Antara news agency reported. Activists from the Way Kambas...

18) Indonesia's Habibie calls for action to stop fires JAKARTA, Aug 9
(Reuters) - Indonesian President B.J. Habibie, warning of an environmental
disaster, called on Monday for action to stop forest fires in Sumatra and
Borneo from spreading. I just want to remind you of the need for us  to be
ready in facing the forest fire disaster," Habibie said at the  opening of...

19) 08/09 Logging Costs Raise Concerns By JEFF BARNARD GRANTS PASS,
Ore.(AP) -- Five years after the Clinton administration's Northwest
Forest Plan was supposed to strike a balance between logging and
wildlife, a judge again has found federal forest managers breaking
the rules. With logging already cut back by 80 percent to restore
salmon runs and save the northern  spotted...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

20) 08/09 Ten die in river accident blamed on thick haze
JAKARTA,Indonesia (AP) -- Ten people were killed in an oil tanker
collision and fire blamed on the thick haze blanketing parts of
Sumatra island, Indonesia's Kompas daily reported Monday. Saturday
night's accident on the Siak River occurred when a tugboat and the
tanker collided in low visibility. Oil leaked from the...

21) HEADLINE: VIC: Acid rain may be falling on Yarra  BODY: YARRA MELBOURNE,
Aug 9 AAP - The first evidence of acid contamination has been found in the
Yarra River, prompting fears acid rain has hit Melbourne, it was reported
today. Scientists had found increased acid levels in the river's upper
reaches, with one of the sites affected only 5km from a reservoir supplying...

22) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence  August  9, 1999 Monday SECTION:
Pg.  50-51 HEADLINE: The case for a  shifting climate is heating up SOURCE:
Time Australia BYLINE: Madeleine  Nash  ABSTRACT: The surface of Peru's
Quelccaya ice cap has shrunk by  one- fifth in the 20 years since 1979.
Ohio State University glaciologist,  Lonnie Thompson, believes an Andean...

23) THE RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS REPORT August  9,  1999, Monday SECTION:
ENVIRONMENTAL  UPDATE HEADLINE: LARGE OIL SLICK  DISCOVERED IN TARTAR
STRAIT SOURCE: Echo of Moscow radio, August 06, 1999  BODY: Some time  ago,
a large oil slick appeared in the Tartar Strait.  Fuel is leaking from a
Japanese tanker, the Takau Maru, which sank in 1979.  The fuel is rising...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

24) Portuguese Medical Council sees risks from GM foods By David Brough
LISBON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Portugal's Medical Council said on Monday genetic
manipulation of plants and animals used in food could alter the environment
and trigger health risks. With the cultivation and rearing of  genetically
modified plants and animals for use in our foods, environmental  changes...

25) 08/08 WSJ(8/9): ADM Sees No Guarantees On Genetic-Modifying By Daniel
Rosenberg Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal   CHICAGO -- A 
senior executive with Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. doesn't see a time
when  U.S. crops can be shipped to Europe or elsewhere guaranteed
free of  genetically modified organisms.   Many importing countries,
particularly in  Europe but...

26) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 09, 1999, Monday SECTION: Pg. 04
HEADLINE: GM 'superfish' face ban in British waters BYLINE: By Charles
Clover, Environment Editor BODY: GENETICALLY modified fish being
developed for commercial production in America and China would dominate
and replace natural strains within a few generations if they were released...

27) 08/09 EU postpones vote on genetically modified crops BRUSSELS 
(Reuters) - The European Commission has postponed Tuesday's scheduled
vote  on whether to approve three new genetically modified organisms,
a  commission spokesman said Monday. Representatives from the 15
European  Union governments had been due to decide whether to license
a new  genetically...

 OTHERS 

28) New audit aims to reduce material resource use ENDS Daily - 05/08/99 Dutch
researchers have presented a new way of analysing manufactured products
which aims to increase "eco-efficiency" by lowering the amounts of primary
resources used in the production process.  The system is claimed to be
unique in considering the effects of population increase and greater market...

29) 08/09 1316 Borneo's Dwindling Tribe By BETH DUFF-BROWN  Associated 
Press Writer IN THE BORNEO RAIN FOREST (AP) -- The Borneo headman
drew  his clenched fist to the midnight fire, opened his palm to the
moon and revealed the flint he kept in a bamboo box around his neck.
This was handed down by my grandfather and he got it from his
grandfather," says...

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