Global News Headlines 09/01

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Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) MOZAMBIQUE: DANISH AID AGENCY FAULTED IN WASTE MAPUTO, (Aug. 30) AIA/GIN
- The Danish development agency Danida is urging the Mozambican government
to get rid of 900 tons of obsolete pesticides stored in the town of Matola,
15 kms from Maputo. Continued storage is dangerous to humans and the
environment, Danida says. But the pesticides were stored in Matola
through a...

(GREENPEACE)
2) AP August 31, 1999, SECTION: State and Regional HEADLINE: Mossville
delegation hopes to speak to U.N. negotiators BYLINE: The Associated Press
BODY: David Prince moved to Louisiana 18 years ago so his wife could take
care of her dying mother. In the past few years, the Princes and their four
children all have developed major ailments. They blame dioxin pollution from...

3) Reuters Caspian ecology endangered, Iranian expert warns IRAN: September
1, 1999 RASHT - The Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland sea,
faces a potential ecological disaster due to heavy pollution,
overfishing and public indifference towards the environment, an
Iranian expert said. Shaaban-Ali Nezami, the top environmental
official in Iran's coastal Gilan...

4) INTERVIEW-Portugal calls for EU food safety agency By David Brough LISBON,
Sept 1 (Reuters) A senior Portuguese official has called for the creation
of an EU food safety agency to set uniform standards in the 15-nation bloc
and prevent a repetition of crises like mad cow disease and the Belgian
dioxin scare. Food safety will be one of the biggest challenges  facing...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
5) AP Worldstream September 01, 1999 HEADLINE: Protest over transport of
nuclear waste ends DATELINE: DAENIKEN, Switzerland BODY: A protest against
the transfer of radioactive waste from a Swiss power station ended
peacefully Wednesday after police sawed through rail tracks to remove
campaigners who had chained themselves to an iron block. Ten people were...

(GREENPEACE)
6) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US nuclear non-proliferation policy in
North-East Asia "a failure" DATELINE: SEOUL, Sept 1 BODY: Environmental
group Greenpeace on Wednesday attacked US nuclear non-proliferation policy,
accusing Washington of double standards by allowing Japan to stockpile
plutonium while denying it to other countries in Asia. The group accused...

(GREENPEACE)
7) Slovene police detain 16 Greenpeace activists LJUBLJANA, Sept 1 (Reuters)
Slovenian police detained 16 activists of the environmental group Greenpeace
for delaying the road transport of a huge steam generator to a nuclear power
plant at Krsko, 100 km (60 miles) southeast of Ljubljana.  A police
spokesman said all those held were from Austria.  The demonstrators...

(GREENPEACE)
8) Brazil says its nuclear power plants Y2K ready By Jeremy Smith RIO DE
JANEIRO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Brazil has completed compliance tests to ensure
its controversial nuclear power plants are not floored by the Y2K millennium
bug, senior industry officials said on Tuesday. All the tests have been
completed," said Everton Carvalho, institutional relations co-ordinator for...

9) Parliamentary committee slams Aust govt over Lucas Heights  BODY:
LUCAS CANBERRA, Sept 1 AAP - A Senate committee today slammed the federal
government's decision to build a new  nuclear  reactor at Lucas Heights as
premature and ill-considered and called for another public inquiry. But
the government rejected further scrutiny of its decision, saying Labor was...

10) TASS HEADLINE: Russia never to dump radioactive waste in Sea of Japan
BYLINE: Vladimir Solntsev DATELINE: TOKYO, September 1  BODY: Russia will
never dump liquid  radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan, Yevgeny
Nazdratenko, visiting governor of the Far Eastern Primorye territory, told
Itar-Tass on Wednesday. Nazdratenko arrived in Tokyo to attend a session of...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

11) The Toronto Star September 1, 1999, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE:
WALKING AWAY FROM WAR DAMAGE BODY: Jim Trautman Vietnam. The Gulf War.
Yugoslavia. Once the bombing stops, who is responsible for the environmental
cleanup? Twenty-four years after the war in Vietnam, one-seventh of the land
and water areas are scarred with the destructive effects of large-scale use...

12) 09/01 Police arrest six trying to sell uranium alloy VLADIVOSTOK,
Russia (AP) Six people were arrested for trying to sell highly
radioactive uranium alloy stolen from military facilities, police
said Wednesday. The alloy, a mix of uranium-238 and nickel, was
stolen from defense factories and facilities belonging to Russia's
Pacific Fleet, police  said. Among the...

13) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Russia to sell China nuclear-powered
submarines: report DATELINE: BEIJING, Sept 1 BODY: China has reached
agreement with Russia to buy two nuclear - powered submarines to deter any
US presence in the Taiwan Strait as relations between Beijing and Taipei
worsen, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Wednesday. The Hong Kong Standard,...

 OCEANS 

14) 09/01 MORATORIUM DEMANDED ON EXPANSION OF SALMON FARMING By Amanda
Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News Wildlife campaigners today
called for a moratorium on any further growth of the salmon farming
industry in a bid to save wild fish species. Scottish Environment
LINK, an umbrella body of 39 voluntary organisations with an interest
in the environment, have written to...

15) 09/01 Australia To Clamp Down On Illegal Fishing CANBERRA (Reuters)
Australia Wednesday announced a crackdown on illegal foreign fishing
in its waters, citing concerns that some valuable species were under
too much pressure. Agriculture Minister Warren Truss and his
spokesman said the government was drafting legislation that would
double fines and give...

16) 09/01 Dennis Washes Away Sea Turtle Nests KURE BEACH, N.C. (AP) --
The high surf kicked up by Hurricane Dennis washed away dozens of sea
turtle nests during what had been one of the state's best nesting
seasons on record. The state's primary nesting turtles are
loggerheads, which he government classifies as a threatened species.
The size of the loss was still unclear...

17) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: International maritime body urges adherence
to marine  pollution  laws BYLINE: Lara Parpan DATELINE: SINGAPORE, Sept 1
BODY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Wednesday urged
tighter observation of regulations by the shipping and oil industries to
prevent marine  pollution  amid inadequate compliance with existing rules...

 OZONE

(GREENPEACE)
18) ENVIRONMENT:  U.S. LAWMAKERS SEEK CUTS IN OZONE ... WASHINGTON, (Aug. 30)
IPS - Environmentalists have sounded alarm bells over attempts by Republican
lawmakers to end U.S. financial help for more than 100 developing nations to
phase out the use of ozone-depleting chemicals.  If Republican policymakers
successfully block congressional support for the Multilateral Ozone Fund,...

19) 09/01  UN: Ozone Hole Will Be Twice The Size of Europe This Year
GENEVA (AP) The "ozone hole" over the Antarctic is expected to grow
this year to around twice the size of Europe, although depletion is
weaker than last year because polar winds have eased, a United
Nations expert said Wednesday. Last year was the biggest and the
strongest ozone depletion in Antarctica," said...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
20) 09/01 GREENPEACE LAUNCHES OIL FIELD REFERENDUM ON INTERNET By Paul
Hunter, PA News Environmental campaigners opposed to the development
of new oil fields off Scotland's west coast today launched an
Internet referendum on the controversial issue. Greenpeace is asking
members of the public to decide whether they want the Government to
allow oil exploration in the...

21) 09/01 MINISTER INSPECTS PIONEERING `GREEN' GENERATOR By Rebecca
Allison, PA News Michael Meacher, Minister for the Environment, was
today becoming the first visitor to climb the 300 steps of the
world's most powerful and efficient wind turbine. The minister was
climbing inside the vast E-66 wind turbine, based in Swaffham,
Norfolk, which is the most technologically...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

22) Hundreds rally outside Boral against woodchipping  BODY: NSW: HUNDREDS
RALLY O ASX Codes: BOR SYDNEY, Sept 1 AAP - Hundreds of protesters have
gathered outside the Sydney office of energy company Boral Ltdf to rally
against woodchipping in old growth forests. The protesters want industry to
use plantation forests as their source.  According to protester Natalie...

23) BusinessWorld September 1, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Senate body okays
30-year total ban on logging in RP BYLINE: Norman P. Aquino BODY: The
Senate environment committee has approved a bill that seeks to impose
a 30-year total ban on commercial logging. Sixteen senators signed
the committee report on substitute Senate Bill No. 1695 or the
proposed Sustainable...

24) The Vancouver Sun September 01, 1999, FINAL SECTION: Business; H1 / Front
HEADLINE: Public may lose access to ancient Douglas fir: Interfor seeks
bubble zone to counter protesters, who have suspended themselves from trees
in Elaho Valley. BYLINE: Gordon Hamilton, Sun Forestry Reporter BODY: One
of Canada's oldest Douglas fir trees could be off-limits to the public say...

25) The Times (London) September 1, 1999 SECTION: Home news HEADLINE:
Desperate farmers 'ready to abandon the land' BYLINE: Valerie Elliott,
countryside editor BODY: Vast tracts of remote rural Britain are likely to
be abandoned by farming families unless the Government takes urgent action
to halt the agriculture crisis, farmers' leaders said yesterday. The spectre...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

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26) The Toronto Star September 1, 1999, Edition 1 SECTION: BUSINESS HEADLINE:
ACTIVISTS TO CHEW OVER GENE-ALTERED FOOD FIGHT BODY: Stuart Laidlaw
Activists from across Canada are meeting in Ottawa today to work out a
strategy to fight genetically modified foods.  ''It's the first time there's
been a national summit of groups concerned with genetic engineering to talk...

27) 09/01 World Bk Adviser Sees Future For GMO Pdts; Need For Care
CANBERRA (Dow Jones) The use of genetically modified organisms in
food production could have major long-term benefits for world
agriculture, Thomas Lovejoy, chief bio-diversity adviser for the
World Bank, said Wednesday. But he warned that care must be taken in
the uptake of these products, particularly...

28) Transgenic food rules spark market upheaval in Asia By Michael Byrnes
SYDNEY, Sept 1 (Reuters) New rules to govern genetically modified organisms
(GMO) in Asia's US$1,000 billion a year food market have begun to threaten
exports worth billions of dollars from the United States and elsewhere. The
spread of a now- global battle over the use of GMOs to Asia, the biggest...

29) 09/01 ADM/GMO Crops -2: Says Consumers Demand Unaltered Food CHICAGO
(Dow Jones)--U.S. agriculture processing firm Archer Daniels Midland
Co. (ADM) sent a notice to suppliers this week urging them to
segregate genetically- altered products from traditional crops. ADM,
based in Illinois, sent the notice in response to increasing consumer
concerns about food products made...

30) Japan food maker to drop gene-altered soybeans TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters)
Japan's largest maker of soybean protein food products, Fuji Oil Co Ltd,
said on Wednesday the group will stop using genetically modified (GM)
soybeans by next April due to consumer concern over the safety of
bioengineered crops. Fuji Oil will start switching to non-GM soybeans in the...

 OTHER 

31) WSJ(9/1): THE WALL STREET JOURNAL/NORTHWEST: Activists Brace For The
Worst As Green Study Is Prepared By Rachel Zimmerman Staff Reporter of The
Wall Street Journal / Northwest A conservative Olympia think tank is
preparing a report on environmental education in public schools in
Washington -- and green activists are gearing up to attack it. The report
won't be published...

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