Global News Headlines 08/24

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Tuesday, August 24, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 TOXICS 

1) The Guardian (London) August 24, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Home Pages; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: Biocidal cotton shirts beat sniff test BYLINE: Tim Radford Science
Editor BODY: US chemists last night announced the ultimate in office wear: a
cotton shirt that kills odour-causing bacteria - and infectious germs -
within minutes. The latest 'biocidal' cotton means that sportsmen and office...

2) Los Angeles Times August 23, 1999, Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Page 3;
Metro Desk HEADLINE: CALIFORNIA AND THE  WEST; AGENCIES AT ODDS OVER DIOXIN
RISK IN BAY; HEALTH: CITING THREAT TO SAN FRANCISCO ANGLERS, EPA ADDS THE
POLLUTANT TO LIST OF CONTAMINANTS. STATE SAYS MOVE WILL MEAN COSTLY AND
UNNECESSARY MONITORING. BYLINE: MARY  CURTIUS, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE:...

3) Exclusion zone declared after collision in Channel BODY: By Henry Meyer
DOVER, England, Aug 24 (AFP) Britain has declared an exclusion zone around a
burning container ship with a "hazardous" cargo in the Channel after a
collision with a US cruise liner early Tuesday, emergency services said. The
cruise liner  Norwegian Dream and the Panamanian-flagged container ship Ever...

4) The Moscow Times August 24, 1999 SECTION: No. 1778 HEADLINE: Baikal Seal
Deaths Puzzle Experts BYLINE: Natalya Shulyakovskaya BODY: BAIKALSK, Eastern
Siberia - It  has been more than a decade since thousands of nerpi, the
unique freshwater  seals of Siberia's Lake Baikal, washed up dead. But the
inexplicable mass seal kills have continued off and on throughout the 1990s,...

5) Mainichi Daily News August 24, 1999 SECTION: Page 2; OPINION/ANALYSIS
BODY: Reduce, reuse, recycle Disposing of the 400 million tons of industrial
waste and 50 million tons of garbage the nation produces every year is not a
laughing matter. Indeed, if nothing is done, the Japanese archipelago really
could disappear under a mountain of garbage in the 21st century. Garbage has...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

6) Water pump failure shuts down Taiwan nuclear reactor TAIPEI, Aug. 24
(Kyodo) A nuclear reactor northeast of Taipei shut down automatically
Tuesday apparently because of a water pump failure, Taiwan's state utility
Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) said. Taipower said the No. 1 reactor of its
nuclear power plant in Chinshan, Taipei County, went off-line around 11 a.m....

7) BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit August 24, 1999 HEADLINE: KAZAKH KHABAR TV
QUESTIONS STATE PLANS FOR NUCLEAR POWER STATION SOURCE: Khabar TV, Almaty,
BODY: Kazakh Khabar TV's weekly "13 minutes" programme on 22nd August
challenged the Kazakh government's plan to build a nuclear power station on
the shores of Lake Balkhash, in the east of the republic, by the year 2005....

8) Exports Call for More Nuclear Power CHINA, August 24, AsiaPort -- Some
100 Chinese experts and leading officials attended a week-end forum
in Beijing sponsored by three domestic research institutions to
discuss China's strategy for developing nuclear power. Some speakers
pointed out that China's  nuclear power output accounts for only 1.3
percent of the country's...

9) Toronto Star Aug 23, 1999 Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: PROVINCIAL
HELP sought to fund emergency plan Stan Josey Some Ontario communities that
host nuclear power plants say they need help implementing a new provincial
emergency plan which aims to prepare for a Chernobyl-style disaster.  While
the province wants municipalities to be ready for anything, officials said...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

(GREENPEACE)
10) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Chelyabinsk schools, hospitals given
radioactive fish: Greenpeace DATELINE: MOSCOW, Aug 24 BODY: Authorities in
Chelyabinsk, in the Urals, have allowed the sale of radioactive fish to
schools and hospitals in the region, ecology activists Greenpeace said
Tuesday. More than two tons of fish from Lake Alabuga, tainted with...

11) The Washington Times August 24, 1999, Final Edition SECTION: PART A; Pg.
A1 HEADLINE: White House plots defense for 21st century; Urges intervention,
cites threats BYLINE: Rowan Scarborough; THE WASHINGTON TIMES  BODY: The
White House has drafted a new global strategy for the next century that
makes the case for U.S. military intervention in a variety of trouble spots...

12) Agent Orange possibly used at bases DALLAS, Aug. 24 (UPI) The Dallas
Morning News, which earlier reported that Agent Orange was tested in the
jungles of Panama in the 1960s and '70s, says the herbicide may have been
sprayed at U.S. military bases in the country. In an interview published
today in The Dallas Morning News, Charles M. Bartlett, a retired Army major...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
13) QLD: Greenpeace to tour Qld with boat to highlight Reef issues BODY:
TIAMA BRISBANE, Aug 24 AAP - Greenpeace activists are to tour the Queensland
coast in a yacht to highlight problems facing the Great Barrier Reef, the
environmental group said today. Greenpeace spokeswoman Alice Leney said the
tour by its yacht Tiama would draw attention to the effects of climatic...

14) 08/24 FEATURE-Ecotourism takes root in Argentina's Patagonia
ByGilbert Le Gras PUERTO MADRYN, Argentina (Reuters) - This
wind-swept Patagonian desert port is turning into fertile ground for
more than tumbleweed as eco-tourism spreads from whale watching to
inland tours of a petrified forest and a new dinosaur museum. What
was a sleepy Patagonian town of 20,000 a generation...

15) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: PHILIPPINES GOVT URGED TO IMPLEMENT FISHERIES CODE
DATELINE: MANILA, Aug 24  BODY: The government has been advised to
immediately implement provisions of the Fisheries Code, including the
formulation of correct resource pricing, aimed at achieving sustainable
development in the fisheries  sector. Early in the game and without wasting...

16) 08/24 UN Panel Reviewing Whale Dispute By ADOLFO GARZA GUERRERO
NEGRO, Mexico (AP) Protesters from both sides have mobilized in
Mexico to tell a visiting U.N. team their opinions on a proposed Baja
California salt plant that environmentalists say would threaten a
large whale breeding ground. Supporters of the project began
gathering Tuesday in Guerrero Negro, another...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

17) 08/24 Pressure on Indonesia mounts as ASEAN ministers to ... By
JASMINA KUZMANOVIC SINGAPORE (AP) -- Environment ministers of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations, who begin a two-day meeting
in Singapore on Wednesday, are likely to put more pressure on
Indonesia to stop clearing land by fire and sending hazy smoke to
neighboring countries, an...

18) Belfast News Letter August 24, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: PLANS
FOR CAR 'RETIREMENTS' TO BE STUDIED BODY: A MOVE to pay drivers to take
their old cars off the road is being "looked at" by a Government task force,
it emerged yesterday. Some European countries are reported to have given
motorists up to pounds 900 to trade in older models to try and clean up the...

19) THE KOREA HERALD August 24, 1999 HEADLINE: Korea, China, Japan team up to
control air pollution BYLINE: Kim Ji-soo Staff reporter BODY: South Korea,
China and Japan have agreed on a five-year project to cooperate on
controlling transboundary air pollutants, including sulfurous gas, which
causes acid rain, and yellow sands, which are dusts blown in from China, an...

20) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Shell to resume operations in troubled
Niger Delta DATELINE: LAGOS, Aug 24  BODY: Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell will
soon resume operations at its flow stations in Nigeria's Niger Delta region,
company officials said Tuesday. Shell shut down the Odidi flow stations in
October last year following threats of disruption by rampaging youths...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

21) New Straits Times (Malaysia) August 24, 1999 SECTION: National; Pg. 13
HEADLINE: Countering anti-tropical timber drive DATELINE: Kuala Lumpur BODY:
KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - Malaysia's programmes on sustainable forest management
will be accessible on the Internet to counter anti-tropical timber campaign,
Deputy Primary  Industries Minister Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein said today....

22) New Straits Times (Malaysia) August 24, 1999 SECTION: National News
analysis; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Transboundary solutions needed to tackle the haze
problem BYLINE: Esther Tan BODY: SIGNS of frustration are apparent as
Southeast Asia is hit by another hazy spell. Singapore's Environment
Minister Lee Yock Suan was reported to have accused Indonesia of not doing...

23) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 24, 1999 HEADLINE: Logging and fires
threaten rainforests, survival of orang-utans DATELINE: Jakarta BODY:
Logging and forest fires are destroying Indonesia's rainforests and the
wildlife they support, government authorities and environmentalists warned
Tuesday. Uncontrolled forest fires - mostly lit illegally to clear logged...

24) 08/24 Thailand seeking billion-dollar paper production pr... BANGKOK,
Thailand (AP) The Thai government is securing rights to large plots
of land in hopes of sealing an agreement with China next month for a
billion-dollar paper production project, a newspaper reported
Tuesday. Fearing China may invest elsewhere, Thailand hopes to have a
proposal written and sufficient...

25) 08/24 Green Group Presses Clinton To Ban Forest Roads WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - President Clinton will be trailed for the rest of his
summer vacation by a $100,000 radio and print advertising campaign
urging him to permanently ban road-building in wild U.S. national
forests, an environmental group said Tuesday. Heritage Forests
Campaign, the conservationist group that booked...

26) 08/24 Louisiana-Pacific To Buy Canada's Evans Forest VANCOUVER
(Reuters) - U.S. forest products producer Louisiana-Pacific Corp.
continued its Canadian expansion Tuesday with an agreement to buy
Evans Forest Products Ltd. for $90 million. The deal to buy the
privately held Evans, which produces lumber products such as plywood,
came less than two weeks after Louisiana-Pacific...

27) Missouri Organic Farmers Struggle to Keep Crops Chemical-Free By Scott
Canon, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Aug. 24--CALHOUN, Mo.--Gary Anson worries
that today's chicken manure isn't what it used to be.  He struggles
mightily to keep his corn, soybeans and wheat pristine -- free of chemicals
and laboratory-tinkered genetics. When he succeeds, his crops earn organic...

28) The Guardian (London) August 24, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Foreign Pages; Pg.
10 HEADLINE: Arrest hardens French action against burger chain
BYLINE: Paul Webster in Paris  BODY: French farmers are to step up
their campaign against McDonald's fast food outlets after their
violent protest over US sanctions against French luxury foods was
supported by the Communist and Green...

29) The Independent (London) August 24, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 8 HEADLINE:
BRITAIN 'FAILING TO PROTECT WILDLIFE' BYLINE: Michael Mccarthy Environment
Correspondent BODY: THE UK is bottom of the international league table of
wildlife protection, with a worse record of safeguarding its
environmentally important areas than many Third World countries, according...

30) Times Colonist (Victoria) August 24, 1999 Final News A4 Canada loses first
round in environment complaint  EDMONTON -- The Canadian government has lost
the opening round in a complaint before NAFTA's environmental watchdog.  The
Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Co-operation has recommended
that Canada be investigated as to whether it is adequately enforcing its...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
31) German minister says EU can't be "island" on food CHICAGO, Aug 23 (Reuters)
- Europe must not be an island standing aloof from world trading rules on
agriculture but consumer concerns must be given adequate weight in food
safety debates, German agriculture minister Karl-Heinz Funke said on Monday.
Funke, speaking to reporters at the start of a week-long visit to the United...

(GREENPEACE)
32) The Toronto Star August 22, 1999 Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: FOOD
FIGHT BYLINE: Thomas Walkom BODY: gives us something to chew on The
Frankenstein food fight has finally crossed the Atlantic. Three years after
genetically engineered foods were quietly introduced into the country's
grocery stores, Canadians are beginning to take notice. And that's making...

33) The Independent (London) August 21, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 7 HEADLINE:
SPREAD OF GM CROPS TREBLES IN ONE YEAR BYLINE: Michael Mccarthy Environment
Correspondent BODY: THE GLOBAL area planted with genetically modified crops
is growing at an explosive rate, almost trebling between 1997 and 1998,
according to the world's leading survey of environmental trends. It shot up...

34) 08/24  DJ Environmentalists Escalate Fight Against Altered Crops
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Environmental pressure group Friends of the
Earth is stepping up its campaign against genetically modified crops
as members of the World Trade Organization prepare to discuss the
controversial issue at this fall's WTO ministerial meeting. FOE sent
letters to 100 of the largest food...

35) 08/24 Consumer Group Urges Labeling Of Modified Foods WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - A leading consumer group called Tuesday for the federal
government to require labels on food products containing ingredients
made from genetically modified crops. Consumers Union said it was
making the recommendation after a survey published in the September
issue of its Consumer Reports magazine...

 OTHERS 

36) 08/24 Turkey Focuses On Survivors, Toll Nears 18,000 By Steve Bryant
GOLCUK, Turkey (Reuters) - As the death toll from last week's
earthquake neared 18,000, Turkey gave up hope of finding more
survivors Tuesday and turned its attention to housing more than
200,000 people left homeless. Thousands of Turks struggled to cope
with life in muddy tent cities, and...

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