Global News Headlines 08/29

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Sunday, August 29, 1999
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 TOXICS 

1) New York Times Aug 29, 1999, Late Edition-Final SECTION: 1; Page 1; Column
2; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: DDT, Target of Global Ban, Finds Defenders
in Experts on Malaria BYLINE: SHERYL GAY STOLBERG DATELINE:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 BODY: It has been 27 years since the United
States banned the pesticide DDT, and the payoff is undeniable. The
peregrine falcon, once pushed to the brink...

2) Dutch Ahold chain claims dioxin damages ZAANDAM, Netherlands, Aug 28
(Reuters) - Supermarket group Ahold's Dutch flagship chain Albert Heijn said
on Saturday it was claiming several million guilders from suppliers for
damages incurred as a result of the Belgian dioxin crisis. A spokesman said
the chain had withdrawn some 90 products from its shelves during the food...

3) 08/28 Pollution Hurts Surfing Mecca By CHELSEA J. CARTER HUNTINGTON
BEACH, Calif. (AP) On a typical trek to "Surf City, USA," visitors
would see well- oiled bodies spread out towel-to-towel in the sand,
swimmers frolicking in the water and board-toting surfers hitting the
waves. But the usual party atmosphere at Huntington Beach has been
crashed by something new surfing in...

4) 08/29 CHEMICAL SCARE PARENTS TO MEET HEALTH BOSSES By Brian Farmer,
PA News Health officials are due this week to meet parents of
children at a primary school at the centre of a chemical scare. 
Scientists who have carried out tests around St Edmund's Primary
School in King's Lynn, Norfolk after parents became worried about
health problems say they have found high...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

5) Observer Aug 29, 1999 Nuclear safety review tainted by firm's links Antony
Barnett, Public Affairs Editor The government is to re-examine the safety of
transporting nuclear waste around Britain, after a firm it appointed to
undertake an 'independent' survey turned out to have close links with the
nuclear industry. Earlier this year Nukem Nuclear Ltd gave the all-clear to...

6) Observer Sunday August 29, 1999 by Oliver Morgan, Industrial Correspondent
[Pounds] 1.5bn BNFL sell-off at risk Whitehall fears environmental report on
nuclear reprocessing will bring plant's finances into question  A row over
an investigation ordered by the Government into the environmental impact of
nuclear fuel reprocessing could jeopardise  plans for the £1.5 billion...

7) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: French PM promises wide-ranging debate on
nuclear power DATELINE: LA ROCHELLE, France, Aug 29  BODY: French Prime
Minister Lionel Jospin pledged Sunday to hold "a wide-ranging scientific and
democratic debate" on the issue of nuclear power. In a concession to the
Greens, government partners of Jospin's Socialists, the premier said a draft...

8) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Chernobyl: tourists travel to  nuclear  no
man's land BYLINE: Philippe Coumarianos DATELINE: KIEV, Aug 29 BODY: "Just
one day in the Chernobyl radiated zone will leave you with fond memories,"
brags a tour operator in Kiev as if he was selling a trip to the Caribbean.
Don't think twice, go for it!" he urges. The damaged Chernobyl plant, symbol...

9) HEADLINE: VIC: Anti-uranium protesters "party" at businessman's home  BODY:
MELBOURNE, Aug 29 AAP - A handful of anti-uranium protesters today converged
on the home of the chairman of the firm behind the Jabiluka mine proposal,
for what they described as a rave party. From 8am today, the group of about
20 protesters played amplified music outside the home of North Ltd
chairman...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

10) 08/29 Radioactive Ooze Found Outside Plant WASHINGTON (AP)Federal
officials confirmed that a radioactive black ooze found seeping
outside the fence of a Kentucky uranium enrichment plant led workers
to a burial ground for radioactive debris. Contract workers chanced
upon the material near an unused sanitary landfill at the Gaseous
Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Ky., The...

11) 08/29 NKorea-US By KYONG-HWA SEOK SEOUL, South Korea (AP) An upcoming
meeting between the United States and North Korea is expected to
serve as a "turning point" in resolving Cold War tensions on the
divided Korean peninsula, a South Korean government official said
Sunday. Unification Minister Lim Dong-won made the remarks after
returning from a weeklong trip...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
12) Australia, NZ hail UN order on Japan fish quota SYDNEY, Aug 28 (Reuters)
A United Nations' order for Japan to restrict its southern bluefin tuna
catch was a victory for not only Australia and New Zealand but also the
environment, Australia said on Saturday. This is a great win for Australia
and New Zealand, but more importantly a win for the southern bluefin tuna,"...

13) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 28, 1999 HEADLINE: Japan regrets court order
against experimental tuna fishing DATELINE: Tokyo BODY: Japan expressed
regret Saturday over an international court's interim ruling Friday against
its "experimental" fishing of southern bluefin tuna. "It is regrettable that
Japan's views were not fully understood," said Japanese Foreign Minister...

14) The Vancouver Sun August 28, 1999, FINAL SECTION: Editorial; A19 HEADLINE:
Are we loving whales to death?: Watching and photographing the great orca is
not the benign industry many perceive.  One expert has identified boat
traffic as one of the causes in the decline of the killer whale population.
BYLINE: Calvin Sandborn BODY: Are Georgia Strait's killer whales  following...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

15) AP Worldstream August 29, 1999 HEADLINE: Beijing to ease smog by shutting
factories for 50th National Day DATELINE: BEIJING BODY: Beijing will give
its 12 million people a break from heavy smog for the nation's 50th National
Day on Oct. 1 by temporarily slowing production at the city steel works and
other top polluters. The Capital Iron and Steel Co., coal-burning power...

16) 08/28 Northeast Considers Smog Compromise ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) After
demanding for years that the Midwest drastically cut the floating
pollutants that acidify Northeastern rain and sully air with smog,
Northeastern leaders are considering a compromise. While the plan put
on the table last week would still require lower emissions from power
plants and factories than those...

17) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) Aug 29, 1999, SECTION: Pg. 15 HEADLINE:  Climate
change 'hits tourism' BYLINE: CATHERINE ELSWORTH BODY: A HOLIDAY "brochure"
that would inhibit even the most hardened of tourists has been produced by
weather experts at a leading climatic research centre on behalf of the
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). According to the guide, trips to holiday...

18) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 28, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Nation
warming up to 'green electricity' BYLINE: Kakuya Ishida Daily Yomiuri Staff
Writer; Yomiuri BODY: Tomen Corp. a general trading company, in October will
begin testing electric power plants that use computer-controlled wind
turbines in the coastal town of Tomamaecho, Hokkaido. Power will be...

19) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 28, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Japan
struggling to honor energy conservation target BYLINE: Mikiko Miyakawa Daily
Yomiuri Staff Writer; Yomiuri BODY: Most environmental issues are
inseparable from the problem of energy consumption. Global warming, acid
rain, air pollution, desertification and depletion of the ozone layer--these...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

20) 08/28 Forced Labor Common in Amazon By MICHAEL ASTOR GUARAI, Brazil
(AP) These days, Lazo Martins dos Santos and his son know better than
to accept offers of easy money clearing Amazon rain forest. They did
last year, and had to be rescued by federal agents. Not all their
companions were so lucky. Six men tried to escape and only three were
ever seen again," says Santos'...

21) QLD: Beattie calm on RFA process despite poll results BODY: TIMBER QLD
NIGHTLEAD BRISBANE, Aug 29 AAP - Premier Peter Beattie said he would not be
rushed into a decision on the Regional Forestry Agreement RFA) process
despite research showing most Queenslanders did not want timber workers to
lose their jobs. A poll released today by UMR Research found "overwhelming...

22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: New fires destroy huge swathe of Indonesian
forest DATELINE: JAKARTA, Aug 28 BODY: Fires which have resumed in
Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan regions have ravaged at least 5,561
hectares (13,735 acres) of forest and scrub in the past month, a report said
Saturday. The National Environmental Impact Management Agency said fires in...

23) 08/29 RARE UK BIRD ON VERGE OF EXTINCTION, EXPERTS WARN By Amanda
Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News. The UK's rarest crow is
extinct in England and has vanished from many other areas, experts
have warned. The chough (pronounced `chuff') is now confined to the
cliffs and islands of the West and North Wales, Northern Ireland and
some Hebridean islands, according...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

24) New York Times Aug 29, 1999, Late Edition - Final Section:1; Page 1;
Column 1; National Desk HEADLINE: New Trade Threat For U.S. Farmers BYLINE:
MELODY PETERSEN DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 BODY: American farmers paid
premium prices this spring to sow many of their fields with genetically
engineered corn and soybeans, but now as the fall harvest nears, more of the...

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