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Sunday, August 15, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

1) Canadian Press Newswire Sunday, August 15, 1999 National  General  News  *
AM-Irving-Whale-PCBs, Bgt code:3; Budget; INDEX:  Environment;  *  Experts
concerned at loss of Irving Whale PCBs BY  By Murray Brewster  HALIFAX (CP)
- Marine biologists are sounding the alarm  that more than  five tonnes of
the Irving Whale's potentially toxic load of  PCBs remains  missing from...

2) APO  08/14 1753  Belgium Food Scare Victims Get Aid BRUSSELS, Belgium  (AP)
-- Belgian banks have agreed to provide cheap loans to companies and
farmers that lost money during the recent scare over a cancer-causing
chemical found in foods, the government said Saturday. The banks will  lend
$715 million over seven years, said Bob Van de Voorde, spokesman for...

3) APn 08/15 Plant Explosion SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) -- One of seven workers  injured
in an explosion at a Georgia Power coal-burning plant died of burns early
Sunday. The victim, who wasn't identified, died between 4 a.m. and 5  a.m.,
said Frankie Smith, a nursing supervisor at Grady Memorial  ospital.  She
said two other patients were in critical condition and two in  satisfactory...

4) PA 08/14 1706  RIVER POLLUTION INCIDENT KILLS 5,000 FISH By Brendan  Berry,
PA News Around 5,000 fish are thought to have been killed in a  serious
pollution incident in a south Wales river. The Environment  Agency  tonight
said scientists would be assessing the long-term impact on  the  River Tawe
in the Swansea Valley. Investigations are centred on a  two  kilometre...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

5) APO  08/14 1531  Oregon May Turn Nuke Plant to Park By AMALIE YOUNG
Associated Press Writer RAINIER, Ore. (AP) -- The ill-fated nuclear
reactor that many locals believe inspired the oozing, green-glowing plant
on "The Simpsons" is now inspiration for an offbeat plan: turning the
reactor grounds into Oregon's newest state park. Six years after it  closed...

6) 08/15  U.K. Research Links Infection To Child Leukemia LONDON
(Reuters)  - Childhood leukemia is caused by an infection and
clusters of cases around industrial sites are the result of
population mixing that increases exposure, cancer researchers said
Saturday, citing new findings in Britain. The research published in
the British Journal of Cancer backs up a 1988...

7) HEADLINE: WA: US  nuclear  waste campaigner speaks out against Pangea bid
BODY:  NUCLEAR PERTH, Aug 15 AAP - Australian anti- nuclear  crusaders
would have international support in their fight against a  nuclear  waste
dump in the outback, a United States campaigner said today. Nuclear  waste
specialist Mary Olson, from  Nuclear  Information and Resource  Service in...

8) The Ottawa Citizen August  14, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A5 HEADLINE:
Nuclear  reactor gets early go-ahead BYLINE:  Kelly Egan  BODY: Canada's
nuclear  regulator has conditionally  approved a licence to operate a new
reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's laboratories in Chalk River that will
use weapons-grade uranium. Maple 1  and Maple 2 are to be commissioned...

9) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts August  14, 1999, Saturday HEADLINE:
Nuclear  Industries to resume prospecting for uranium on ranch in Para
ODY: 3] Text of report by Brazilian newspaper 'Folha de Sao Paulo'  on
10th August Nuclear  Industries of Brazil (INB), in association with 
the National  Nuclear  Energy Commission (CNEN), is resuming
prospecting  for...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

(GREENPEACE)
10) OTC  08/13 1512  ****Activists Urge Y2K Nuclear Stand Down  WASHINGTON,
DC, U.S.A., 1999 AUG 13 (Newsbytes) -- By David McGuire, Newsbytes. Nuclear
disarmament activists are urging Russian and US  leaders to observe a
nuclear weapons "stand down" over the year 2000  date rollover -citing
fears that Y2K- related glitches could trigger  false alarms, and result in...

11) 08/15 Yugoslavia Faces Ecological Disaster, Group Warns BELGRADE
(Reuters) - Yugoslavia faces ecological disaster from 11 weeks of
NATO bombing unless urgent measures are taken in the worst affected
areas, an international humanitarian group was quoted Saturday as
saying. The Beta news agency said a team of Russian, Austrian, Greek
and Swiss experts  from the Focus...

12) 08/15 Plutonium Stockpile Set To Rise - British Report By  Matthew
Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's stockpile of weapons-grade 
plutonium could nearly double to 150 tons because the country has no
means  of dealing with high-level radioactive waste, a
government-commissioned  report said Friday. The report by
consultants Quantisci, which was  leaked  to the...

13) The Ottawa Citizen August  15, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A1 / Front
HEADLINE:  Plutonium -powered spacecraft nears  Earth on way to Saturn:
Carninogenic cargo worries anti- nuclear  activists BYLINE: Matthew Fordahl
DATELINE: PASADENA, California  BODY: PASADENA, California -- A two-storey,
$3.4-billion U.S. spacecraft carrying a load of deadly plutonium  will zoom...

14) Agence France Presse August 15, 1999 HEADLINE: Biological weapons more
devastating  than  nuclear arms, conference told DATELINE: SYDNEY, Aug 15
BODY:  Effective germ-laden weapons have been developed and have the
potential to  cause far greater devastation than  nuclear  arms, an
international  bio-terrorism symposium was told Sunday. Ken Alibek, a former...

15) The Washington Times August  15, 1999, Sunday, Final  Edition SECTION: PART
B; COMMENTARY; Pg. B1 HEADLINE: Nearing maximum  danger BYLINE: William
Taylor and Glenn Baek  BODY: The greatest threat  to U.S.  security
anywhere in the world is North Korea, the so-called  Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK). Although the DPRK would  lose a conventional  war...

16) Japan Economic Newswire August  14, 1999,  Saturday HEADLINE: N. Korean
envoy says Pyongyang will not fire missile DATELINE: MOSCOW, Aug. 14 Kyodo
BODY: An unidentified North Korean  diplomat in Moscow said Pyongyang  has
no plans to conduct a missile  test-launch, Russia's Itar-Tass news  agency
reported Saturday. The  remark is in contrast to recent comments  by...

17) The Ottawa Citizen August  15, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A8 HEADLINE:
Kosovo's children still at war: Agencies  struggle to educate youngsters of
dangers of hidden mines, booby traps BYLINE: John Nadler BODY: Thirteen-
year-old Burim Elshani is a boy  obsessed with loss. In Burim's case, the
vacuum that has descended over  his future is represented by the void...

 OCEANS 

18) Times Colonist (Victoria) Sunday, August 15, 1999 Final  Islander  13
Fishermen need aid, but just this once  Another  collapsed fishery,  more
fishermen and their communities facing ruin, more  calls for  government
relief. This time it's the Fraser River sockeye run.  The  fishery was
closed after only three million salmon returned instead of  the expected...

19) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August  15, 1999,  HEADLINE:  Australia serious in
spat with Japan over tuna DATELINE: Sydney  BODY:  Australia is fielding no
less an advocate than Attorney General Daryl  Williams in this week's
hearing in Hamburg of the International Tribunal of  the Law of the Sea
over Japan's fishing of southern bluefin tuna, it was  announced Sunday in...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

20) The San Francisco Chronicle AUGUST  14, 1999, SATURDAY,  FINAL; PENINSULA
EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A15 HEADLINE: Air Quality  District Denies
Chevron Relief From Regulations BYLINE: Glen Martin,  Chronicle Staff
Writer DATELINE: BAY AREA  BODY: The Bay Area Air Quality  Management
District has denied Chevron a four-month exemption from air  pollution...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

21) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)  August  14, 1999, Saturday SECTION: Pg. 3
LENGTH: 542 words HEADLINE:  Kawabe dam project still facing obstacles
BYLINE: Kenichi TsuruokauC Kohei  Nishino Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers ;
Yomiuri DATELINE: KUMAMOTO  BODY:  A new development emerged in the
controversial plan to construct a dam  across the Kawabe River in Kumamoto...

22) Times Colonist (Victoria) Sunday, August 15, 1999 Final  Science  A8
Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet  ERUPTIONS  Evacuees at  the shelter near
the Nicaraguan city of Leche Cuajo gathered their children  and rushed
from the schoolhouse where they had taken refuge from Cerro  Negro Volcano
when subterranean explosions and tremors warned of an  impending eruption....

23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Weeds threaten one of the worlds mightiest
rivers: report DATELINE: AUCKLAND, Aug 15  BODY: One of the worlds few
great river systems to remain in a near pristine state, Papua New Guineas
Sepik River, is under threat from introduced weeds, according to a new
report. The Sepik River: A Natural History" was published this week by  the...

24) Calgary Herald August  14, 1999, FINAL SECTION:  City; B4 HEADLINE: B.C.
tribe's victory may affect Alberta BYLINE: Daryl  Slade, Calgary Herald
BODY: A tiny native community's legal victory  over the British Columbia
government and Canadian  Forest  Products Ltd.  (Canfor) this week will
have significant effects in Alberta as well,  riddis lawyer Jeffrey Rath...

25) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August  15, 1999,  Sunday SECTION: Pg. 12
HEADLINE: Captive breeding 'endangers wild tigers'  NATURE WATCH BYLINE: By
GREG NEALE  BODY: BREEDING tigers in captivity  risks fuelling the illegal
trade in the endangered animals, a conservation  group has claimed. The
London-based  Environmental  Investigation Agency  (EIA) says that while...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
26) The Dominion (Wellington) August  14, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; NATIONAL; Pg. 10
HEADLINE: Tour offer to  Greenpeace  BODY:  THE firm hoping to plant
genetically engineered maize at Pukekohe, Pioneer  NZ, has offered
Greenpeace  a tour of its field, saying it has nothing to  hide.
Greenpeace  declined the invitation. It said it would await the...

(GREENPEACE)
27) PA 08/14 1137  SECRECY REJECTED FOR NEW GM CROP SITES By Sherna Noah, PA
News Four new genetically modified crop trial sites will be launched  next
week without extra security measures, it emerged today. Government
ministers have rejected industry pleas for secrecy on big farm-scale trials
to stave off attacks by environmentalists. The news follows high profile...

28) Canadian Press Newswire Sunday, August 15, 1999 National  General  News  *
AM-Food-Genetics, Bgt code:2; Budget; INDEX: Environment,  Agriculture,
Social, Business; Lifestyles, food page interest;  Fears  *  rise about
genetically altered food BY By Rachel Furey  TORONTO (CP)  -  As  European
activists lobby restaurants and raid farms to  protest the  rise  of...

29) US corn group fears Japan gene-labeling plan WASHINGTON, Aug 13  (Reuters)
A Japanese government plan to require labels on food made from genetically-
modified crops threatens to harm U.S. agricultural exports, a top U.S. grain
industry official said on Friday. Under the proposal  approved this week by
a government panel, food made from genetically-modified crops, such as...

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