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Global News Headlines 08/23
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Monday, August 23, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Norway gives 130,000 USD to Russians in far
north DATELINE: ARENDAL, Norway, Aug 23 BODY: Norway's foreign ministry on
Monday donated one million kroner (130,000 dollars, 123,800 euros) to the
indigenous people of Northwest Russia to help them cope with difficult
living conditions. This is fantastic," said Lars Kullerud of the Global...
2) The Times (London) August 23, 1999 SECTION: Home news HEADLINE: BSE waste
leaks to be studied BYLINE: Michael Paterson BODY: Safety inspectors will
this week examine dumps containing the remains of cattle slaughtered during
the BSE crisis after receiving complaints that waste could be leaking. A
team from the Environment Agency will scrutinise the storage of 50,000...
3) PNG MP pushes for copper mine to pay for pollution clean-up BYLINE: By
Ian Chappell, Papua New Guinea Correspondent BODY: PNG OKTEDI ASX Codes: BHP
PORT MORESBY, Aug 23 AAP - A Papua New Guinean MP who says his electorate is
one affected by pollution from BHP's giant Ok Tedi copper mine will push
for the mine's operating company to pay for most of the cost of a clean-up....
NUCLEAR POWER
4) August 23, 1999 Tritium leak closes nuclear unit TORONTO (CP) - Pickering
Nuclear Plant officials closed down the Number 6 generating unit on Sunday
to repair a leak of radioactive tritium into Lake Ontario and the air around
the plant. ``This was a relatively small leak and the amounts being
released are well within the limits allowed under our licence,'' said Pierre...
5) The London Free Press August 23, 1999 Final News A7 STUDY OF CANCER RATES
NEAR NUCLEAR PLANTS SET BY CP The Atomic Energy Control Board will monitor
cancer rates in communities around two local plants. Spokesperson Sunni
Locatelli said the board is reacting to public interest in the issue and to
published reports of excess cancer incidence and/or mortality near nuclear...
6) TASS HEADLINE: Governor denies radioactive leak from tanker into sea(adds)
BYLINE: By Sergei Rudchenko DATELINE: MOSCOW, August 23 BODY: Primorsky
Territory governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko on Monday denied media reports saying
that radioactive waste has leaked from the tanker TNT-27 Pinega.
Nazdratenko said at a press conference that he was surprised by attempts to...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
7) U.N. checks fallout of NATO bombs on Yugoslavia BELGRADE, Aug 23 (Reuters)
U.N. environmental experts assessing the impact of NATO bombing on life in
Yugoslavia said on Monday that detecting possible radioactive fallout
was one of its hardest tasks. The United Nations Environmental Programme
team has been in Yugoslavia for several weeks looking at places which could...
8) Seven arrested at British naval facilities EDINBURGH, Aug 23 (Reuters)
Seven anti-nuclear activists have been arrested at British naval facilities
in Scotland, two of them while swimming towards a base housing Trident
submarines, a military spokesman said on Monday. The two arrested swimmers
were picked up by waterborne police outside the base," said a spokesman at...
9) 08/23 S. Korea Opposes N. Korea Missile By PAUL SHIN SEOUL, South
Korea (AP) -- South Korea today stepped up diplomatic efforts to stop
North Korea from launching a new ballistic missile by holding
high-level talks with China and Japan. South Korean Foreign Minister
Hong Soon-young met his Japanese counterpart, Masahiko Komura, today
in Tokyo. In Beijing, the...
OCEANS
10) FED: Australia opposes Bequian whale kill BODY: WHALING PARLY 010
CANBERRA, Aug 23 AAP - Australia will oppose the decision to allow the
indigenous people of the Caribbean nations of St Vincent and The Grenadines
to continue to kill humpback whales. The 51st Annual meeting of the
International Whaling Commission (IWC) in May agreed to allow the Bequian...
11) From illegal abalone poachers to legal whale-watchers by Bryan Pearson
HAWSTON, South Africa, Aug 17 (AFP) - From abalone poachers to legal
whale-watch operators -- the fishermen of this coastal hamlet have seen a
dramatic reversal of fortune since a ban was lifted on the use of boats to
view whales in South African waters. Phillipus May, head of the Hawston...
12) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japanese team says Earth's oceans will dry
up in a billion years BYLINE: Kiriko Nishiyama DATELINE: TOKYO, Aug 23
BODY: Earth's oceans will dry up in one billion years, following in the
footsteps of Mars and extinguishing all life on the planet, according to
Japanese research released here Monday. Considering the accelerating speed...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
13) HONG KONG STANDARD August 21, 1999, Saturday HEADLINE: Worst pollution on
record blankets HK, BYLINE: Tessi Cruz BODY: HONG KONG gasped through the
worst pollution on record yesterday with the air pollution index (API)
soaring to dangerous levels. Hardest hit was Tung Chung where the index
reached 159, the highest recorded in Hong Kong. A lack of wind combined with...
14) The Times (London) August 23, 1999 SECTION: Home news HEADLINE: Frogs
linked to climate change BYLINE: Nick Nuttall, environment correspondent
BODY: The mystery of why frogs on the southern tip of England are breeding
up to five months earlier than those elsewhere in Britain is to be
investigated. Experts have discovered a dramatic shift in the breeding and...
15) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE White house report says US must embrace clean fuel
USA: August 23, 1999 WASHINGTON - A White House report warned the next
century could be littered with drastic environmental and political risks if
the United States does not invest billions of dollars in clean energy
technology. The report by the President's Committee of Advisors on Science...
16) The Christian Science Monitor August 23, 1999 SECTION: FEATURES; WORK &
MONEY; SUBSIDIZED WIND POWER; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: The next clean-energy cause
BYLINE: Laurent Belsie, Staff writer DATELINE: ST. LOUIS BODY: Ever since
the 1973 oil embargo, America has searched for the energy equivalent of
Cinderella. It has subsidized and encouraged various renewable technologies....
17) USA TODAY August 23, 1999 CHASE EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 2A HEADLINE:
Mid-Atlantic drought isn't critical -- yet BYLINE: Paul Hoversten BODY:
<BLOCKQUOTE> More than 75% of the waterways are at or near record lows, but
</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> reservoirs still have ample water </BLOCKQUOTE>
Throughout the mid-Atlantic states, rivers and streams are looking both...
18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Typhoon Sam kills five in China's Guangdong
province DATELINE: BEIJING, Aug 23 BODY: Typhoon Sam tore through the Pearl
River Delta in China's southern Guangdong province Monday, killing at least
five people and closing several airports, state press reported. According to
initial statistics, the typhoon had also injured 12 and caused 150 million...
19) AP Worldstream August 23, 1999 HEADLINE: Report: Thailand striving toward
eco-friendly cremations DATELINE: BANGKOK, Thailand BODY: Automobiles that
choke Bangkok's streets may create the largest problem for the crowded
city's pollution-control efforts, but a new stink is being generated by
smoke from cremations. Spurred by complaints from families living near...
20) Business Week Aug 30, 1999 SECTION: BUSINESS WEEK INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS;
Asian Business: INDIA; Number 3644; Pg. 30 HEADLINE: DAMMED IF YOU DO,
DAMMED IF YOU DON'T BYLINE: Manjeet Kripalani in Indore, Madhya Pradesh
HIGHLIGHT: India needs power; activists vow they'll die to stop big dams
BODY: In Domkhedi, a village of 500 in western India, residents await...
21) The Irish Times August 23, 1999, CITY EDITION SECTION: HOME NEWS; SCIENCE
TODAY; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Irish companies set to ride wave of energy BYLINE:
DICK AHLSTROM BODY: Cross-border efforts are under way to develop a large-
scale generator that produces electricity from waves. The plan calls for a
working prototype and a pilot plant before the end of next year. If the...
22) ENS August 20 PAKISTAN GREEN GROUPS TAKE ON OIL INDUSTRY By Ahmar Mustikhan
KARACHI, Pakistan, August 20, 1999 (ENS) - Pakistan's eleven premier
environmental protection and sustainable development organizations have
jointly expressed their concern over approval of an Environmental Impact
Assessment for oil and gas exploration in the protected Kirthar National...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
(GREENPEACE)
23) Green groups slam world governments over logging LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters)-
Environmental groups criticised governments around the world on Monday for
failing to control commercial timber logging which they said devastated
precious rainforests and wildlife. Government inertia and hollow promises
made by the timber industry have failed to control unsustainable logging,...
24) Business Week August 30, 1999 SECTION: 21 IDEAS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY --
ENVIRONMENT; Number 3644; Pg. 102 HEADLINE: 8: What If the Forests Were
Silent? BYLINE: John Carey HIGHLIGHT: Conservationists believed they had
succeeded in safeguarding the forests. but although trees and land have been
secured, the animals are disappearing. More than a quarter of all...
25) Korea Economic Weekly August 23, 1999 SECTION: BUSINESS; No. 553 HEADLINE:
Heacho to exploit forest in South Pacific island BODY: Heacho PNG Ltd., a
wholly-owned Papua New Guinean subsidiary of domestic lumber developer
Heacho Co., announced on August 13 that it has embarked on logging
2,545,000 hectares of forest in the Southern Pacific island state.
Under...
26) AP Worldstream August 23, 1999 HEADLINE: Fires damage large tracts of land,
leave thousands homeless BYLINE: PETE McFARREN DATELINE: SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia
BODY: Wind-fueled fires destroyed at least 140,000 hectares (345,000 acres)
of farm land and at least 500 homes, leaving most of the lowlands covered
with smoke, the government reported Monday. Farmlands and forests burnt...
27) BusinessWorld August 23, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Temporary total log
ban mulled BYLINE: Cathy Rose A. Garcia BODY: If both legal and illegal
logging continues unabated, the country would have no more forest cover 37
years from now, Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. warned in a statement
yesterday. Mr. Villar said the House of Representatives should contribute to...
28) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 23, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 04 HEADLINE:
Bats thrive as trust bans cowpat drug BYLINE: Charles Clover, Environment
Editor BODY: A BAN imposed by the National Trust on an animal drug which
makes cowpats toxic has caused an extraordinary boom in endangered wildlife,
including one of Britain's rarest mammals, the greater horseshoe bat. Bats,...
29) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Organic products seen becoming mainstream in UK UK:
August 23, 1999 LONDON - Organic products are shaking off their minority
appeal in Britain and becoming increasingly mainstream, industry experts
told Reuters. Our research indicates that almost three quarters of the
population are sympathetic to the idea of buying organic products and there...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
30) The Times (London) August 23, 1999 SECTION: Features HEADLINE: Seeds of a
political revolution BYLINE: Doug Parr BODY: The GM food debate has profound
implications, says Doug Parr Only the naive believe GM tests are scientific
New Labour on genetically modified crops looks remarkably like the Tories on
BSE - it is struggling to deal with public concern, while making soothing...
(GREENPEACE)
31) The Times (London) August 21, 1999 SECTION: Overseas news HEADLINE:
Farmers protest at US crops 'plot' BYLINE: Charles Bremner in Paris BODY: A
platoon of angry French farmers descended on a McDonald's restaurant in
Normandy this week and gave a clear warning to bio-tech companies who are
threatening to shift their gene-modified trials across the Channel from...
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