Global News Headlines 09/08

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Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) The Guardian (London) September 8, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Society Pages; Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Spinning out of control; 
World economy expanding, greenhouse gases reducing. Good 
news? Don't you believe it, warn Aubrey Meyer and Richard 
Douthwaite BODY: When BP-Amoco announced at the end of last 
month that the 6.5bn tons of fossil fuel the world burnt ...

 ENERGY 

2) EU's Van Miert sees green light for Exxon/Mobil BRUSSELS, 
Sept 7 (Reuters) - Outgoing European Competition 
Commissioner Karel Van Miert said on Tuesday he expected 
Exxon and Mobil to be able to solve remaining competition 
problems related to the European Commission's review of 
their merger. Speaking to reporters after a chemical ...

3) AGL chief calls for delay in approvals for coal power 
plants BODY: SYDNEY, Sept 8 AAP - The Australian Gas Light 
Co managing director Len Bleasel today called for a delay 
in government approvals for new coal-fired power plants in 
Australia pending an in-depth study of the ramifications of 
different types of electricity generation. Mr Bleasel said ...

4) Calgary Herald September 08, 1999, FINAL SECTION: 
Business: Oil & Gas; C2 HEADLINE: Arctic natural gas may be 
next hot target BYLINE: Stephen Ewart, Calgary Herald BODY: 
Growing demand for natural gas and advances in drilling and 
pipeline technology mean development of the huge resources 
of the Mackenzie Delta and the Beaufort Sea is now ''on the ...

(GREENPEACE)
5) AP Worldstream September 08, 1999 HEADLINE: Repsol plays 
down occupation of oil platform by Greenpeace DATELINE: 
MADRID, Spain BODY: Spanish energy giant Repsol said 
Wednesday that production on an oil platform it operates in 
the Mediterranean was not interrupted by a brief occupation 
by Greenpeace activists. Greenpeace said six of its members ...

 FORESTS 

6) The Vancouver Sun September 08, 1999, FINAL SECTION: 
Business; D2 HEADLINE: Control of timber must be reformed: 
The wave of consolidation in the industry in North America 
makes changes in forest tenure essential. BYLINE: Ken 
Drushka BODY: Years ago, shortly after he became president 
of IWA Canada, Jack Munro looked ahead with anticipation to ...

7) National Post September 08, 1999 Wednesday NATIONAL 
EDITIONS SECTION: FINANCIAL POST; Pg. C06 HEADLINE: MacBlo 
takeover approval may put B.C. in legal bind: Timber 
cutting licences may become issue, hearing told BYLINE: 
Drew Hasselback DATELINE: VANCOUVER BODY: VANCOUVER - 
Environmentalists opposed to the proposed $3.59-billion ...

8) New Scientist September 4, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 12 
HEADLINE: Indonesia primed to go up in smoke BYLINE: Fred 
Pearce BODY: A MONTH of forest fires in Indonesia has 
awakened fears of a repeat of the conflagration of two 
years ago, when a pall of thick smoke stretched from 
Thailand to New Guinea. Last week Lee Yock Suan, ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

9) 09/08 French Farmers Protest U.S. Trade By SUSANNAH PATTON 
DEAUVILLE, France (AP) Movie stars arriving at the annual  American
Film Festival in this Normandy resort town over the weekend heard
more than the usual squealing of fans. On the  chic beach boardwalk,
cow mooed and pigs grunted. The  impetus behind the display: 200
French farmers, all of whom ...

10) Europe whets appetite for U.S. non-GM crops By David Brough
LISBON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The United States could boost 
soybean exports to Europe and resume reduced-levy maize 
sales to Spain and Portugal if suppliers segregated 
genetically modified (GM) from conventional crops, European 
industry sources said. But they warned it was hard to ...

 MILITARY 

11) 09/08 Russia Skips Y2K Step On Military Systems -U.S. By  Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia is skipping a basic  step in readying
its most important military computers for  the 2000 technology
challenge, including some that track  sensitive nuclear stockpiles,
the military arm of the U.S.  embassy in Moscow has reported. At
issue are the most ...

(GREENPEACE)
12) The Washington Times September 08, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: PART A; COMMENTARY; OP-ED; Pg. A19 HEADLINE: Ban 
the test ban; Security depends on credible nuclear deterrent
BYLINE: Helle Bering; THE WASHINGTON TIMES BODY: Displays 
of French arrogance do not usually get rounds of applause 
around here. Yet, there was a moment, back in the fall of ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
13) Fiji condemns Japanese plutonium shipment SYDNEY, Sept. 8 
(Kyodo) -- The Fijian government condemned Wednesday 
Japan's shipment of plutonium through the South Pacific. In 
a statement, Fiji's Foreign Minister Tupeni Baba said the 
Japan-bound shipment is a "significant environmental and 
nuclear risk, " made without prior consultation with ...

14) 09/08 EU Lauds Lithuanian N-Plant Closure Decision By  Andrius
Vilkancas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania Wednesday  set 2005 as the
deadline for decommissioning the first of  two reactors at its
Ignalina nuclear power plant, winning  praise from the European Union
which it wants to join. The  cabinet voted unanimously in favor of
the date, the first ...

15) Westinghouse to ship nuclear fuel to Ukraine in 2004 KIEV, 
Sept 8 (Reuters) - Westinghouse Electric Co of the U.S. 
will supply and test the first load of nuclear fuel for 
Ukrainian nuclear power plants in 2004, Ukraine's nuclear 
energy company Energoatom said on Wednesday. Energoatom 
spokeswoman Nadiya Shumak told Reuters that the fuel would ...

16) 09/08 NRC Says 28 U.S. Nuclear Reactors Need Y2K Fix By  Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Nuclear Regulatory  Commission said
Tuesday that 28 nuclear power reactors in  the U.S. need to upgrade
their computers to avoid possible  Y2K computer problems, though none
of the work still to be  done involves computer safety systems. The
commission said ...

17) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: France faces 
multi-billion-dollar bill to stock nuclear waste DATELINE: 
PARIS, Sept 8 BODY: Nuclear plant operators in France next 
year will have to start developing new sites to stock the 
country's growing piles of radioactive waste, in an 
operation that will cost billions of dollars, a senior ...

18) AP Worldstream September 08, 1999 HEADLINE: Nuclear plant 
shuts down after minor leak DATELINE: BERN, Switzerland 
BODY: A nuclear power station near the Swiss capital shut 
down for 13 hours overnight following a leak of radioactive 
steam, the local power generating authority said Wednesday. 
The generator at Muehleberg stopped automatically at 9 p.m. ...

19) Nuclear dump would hurt Aust wine industry BYLINE: 
Sherrill Nixon BODY: - warning WINE NUCLEAR ADELAIDE, Sept 
8 AAP - The clean, green image of Australia's $1 billion  wine export
industry would take a battering if a nuclear  waste dump was
established in South Australia, the head of  the Winemakers'
Federation of Australia warned today. ...

20) The Christian Science Monitor September 8, 1999 SECTION: 
USA; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Now, the rich tackle pollution BYLINE: 
Todd Wilkinson, Special to The Christian Science Monitor 
DATELINE: JACKSON, WYO. HIGHLIGHT: Jackson Hole's pricey 
battle against a nuclear -waste incinerator could be a call 
to arms for America's well-to-do. BODY: To some, it seemed ...

21) Daily Record September 8, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 3 
HEADLINE: SCOTTISH NUKE PLANTS BRACED FOR MINI-MILLENNIUM 
BUG BODY: SCOTLAND is bracing itself for a mini-Millennium 
Bug due to strike tomorrow. Nuclear plants have been 
alerted and tugs are on standby in case the 9/9/99 Bug 
affects ship computers. It's feared that from midnight, ...

22) The Sudbury Star September 8, 1999 Final News A1 / FRONT 
Council opposes nuclear shipment: Plan to ship nuclear fuel 
across North brings back memories of last year's truck 
blast in Walden BY Terry Pender City council has 
unanimously voted to oppose the trucking of nuclear weapons 
fuel from dismantled American and Russian warheads to the ...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
23) Coastal whaling tradition continues in hard times TOKYO, 
Sept. 8 (Kyodo) -- By: Kazumi Ono and Maya Kaneko Despite 
the international moratorium on commercial whaling that took
effect in Japan in 1988, Japan's coastal whaling tradition 
has not been extinguished, as a result of various measures 
by the government, industry and local communities. The ...

24) 09/08 Cleanup of Calif. Oil Spill Is Slow EUREKA, Calif.  (AP) --
Coast Guard officials have managed to clean up only  a small portion
of about 2,000 gallons of oil that has  leaked into Humboldt Bay from
a dredging vessel. The  oilleak from the ruptured fuel tank of he
Stuyvesant  occurred Monday night after rough seas apparently tossed ...

25) QLD: Fourth dead dugong found on north Qld beach BODY: 
BRISBANE, Sept 8 AAP - A dead dugong has been found on a 
beach near Townsville, the fourth dugong carcass to be 
reported in five weeks on north Queensland beaches. The 
discovery of the mammal at Bowling Green Bay, south of 
Townsville, followed that of a dead baby humpback whale near...

26) Fish-Depletion Concerns Constrain San Francisco-Area 
Restaurants By Carolyn Jung, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. 
Sep. 7--Menlo Park's Flea St. Cafe won't be caught with 
trawl-caught shrimp. Berkeley's Chez Panisse won't touch 
hatchery-raised fish. Menlo Park's Wild Hare stopped 
serving Chilean sea bass. And Whole Foods and Wild Oats ...

27) Scientists, Fishing Industry Worry about Barren Area in 
Gulf of Mexico By Bill Hanna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 
Texas Sep. 5--COCODRIE, La.--Fifteen miles out in the Gulf 
of Mexico, schools of fish -- sheepshead, drum, even a few 
snapper -- make their homes amid the massive steel legs of 
an offshore oil rig. From the deck of the research vessel ...

 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
28) 09/08 Greenpeace boards Rotterdam port dredging vessel  AMSTERDAM
(Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace on  Wednesday said
activists boarded a vessel of the Rotterdam  Port Authority which it
said was dumping toxic sludge in  the North Sea. Twenty campaigners
in protective clothing  boarded the dredging ship "Hein" off the
central ...

29) EU confirms to take Belgium to court over dioxin BRUSSELS, 
Sept 8 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on 
Wednesday it would press ahead with legal action against 
Belgium for belatedly informing the EU executive it 
suspected cancer- causing dioxins had entered the food 
chain. The Commission launched legal proceedings against ...

30) FED: Farm chemical may pose health risk BODY: CANBERRA, 
Sept 7 AAP - Australia's agricultural chemical authority 
may ban a pesticide used on livestock and pastures after a 
British study showed it could harm humans. The 
chlorfenvinphos insecticide is used to control insect pests 
on livestock and in lucerne, mushrooms and potato pastures. ...

31) The Christian Science Monitor September 8, 1999, SECTION: 
WORLD; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Latin America struggles to reduce 
illegal pesticide use BYLINE: James Langman, Special to The 
Christian Science Monitor DATELINE: SANTIAGO, CHILE 
HIGHLIGHT: As agricultural exports boom, the region is slow 
to ban the hazardous BODY: Farmers in the United States now ...

(GREENPEACE)
32) CTK National News Wire HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENTALISTS BLOCK 
INCINERATOR OVER DIOXIN EMISSION BYLINE: RTJ DATELINE: 
PRAGUE, Sept 7 ; (RTJ) BODY: About twenty members of the 
Greenpeace environmenalist organisation today blocked 
access to the incinerator in Prague- Malesice in protest 
against the plant producing a large amount of dioxins. ...

 X-OTHER-X 

33) Green body says WTO rules must support environment By 
Robert Evans GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The World Wide Fund 
for Nature conservation body urged the World Trade 
Organisation on Wednesday to adapt its rules to ensure that 
they did not clash with international environmental 
agreements. The WWF also said that to live up to ...

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