Global News Headlines 09/12

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Sunday, September 12, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) The New York Times Sept 11, 1999, Late Edition-Final 
SECTION: A; Page 11; Column 1; Editorial Desk HEADLINE: An 
Inadequate Arsenal for the Insect Invasion BYLINE: Mark L. 
Winston, a professor of biological sciences at Simon 
Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, is the 
author of "Nature Wars: People vs. Pests."...

 ENERGY 

2) 09/10 DJ Senator Offers $2.5B Bill On Govt Oil, Gas Revenue
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., introduced a
bill Friday that would use $2.5 billion in  government revenue from
offshore oil and gas production to  preserve environmentally
sensitive areas. The bill would use existing federal revenue from
offshore continental shelf ...

3) 09/11 German Utility Giants May Merge BERLIN (AP) --  German utility
giants Veba and Viag have worked out a  merger proposal and expect to
complete the deal within  weeks, according to media reports Saturday.
Both companies'  chairmen have drafted a roughly 20-page accord that
would  merge their energy and chemical businesses and also include ...

4) The Edmonton Sun September 12, 1999, Final EDITION 
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. 1 HEADLINE: FARMER FEARFUL AFTER HUGE 
PIPELINE FIRE BYLINE: MARIA MCCLINTOCK, EDMONTON SUN BODY: 
A St. Albert farmer battling a company over a natural gas 
pipeline looked in horror at black smoke spewing from an oil
pipeline blaze more than 70 km away. Joe Bokenfohr, locked ...

5) The Washington Post September 12, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: A; Pg. A03 HEADLINE: Attempts to Revive Fish 
Stocks Clash With Other Interests; Threat to Snake River 
Dams Stirs Passions BYLINE: Tom Kenworthy, Washington Post 
Staff Writer DATELINE: LEWISTON, Idaho BODY: Tamed a 
generation ago by four federal dams, the lower Snake River ...

 FORESTS 

6) ENVIRONMENT: FRESHWATER SPECIES IN DRAMATIC DECLINE 
WASHINGTON, (Sep. 10) IPS - Nearly one-half of the world's 
freshwater species -- including fish and frogs -- were 
declining dramatically worldwide, a new report by the World 
Wildlife Fund (WWF) revealed today. On average, all species 
in lakes, rivers and wetlands have declined by about 45 ...

(GREENPEACE)
7) September 11, 1999 Westbank band gains support for logging 
KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - The Okanagan Nation is taking over a 
protest logging operation the Westbank Indian band began 
Tuesday. ``The Westbank band is not withdrawing from the 
operation, but there's a change happening,'' Penticton band 
chief Stewart Phillip said Friday. One reason for the ...

(GREENPEACE)
8) Environmentalists lament illegal timber harvests in 
Brazilian Amazon by Beatriz Lecumberri MANAUS, Brazil, Sept 
11 (AFP) - Hundreds of tons of tropical timber have been  confiscated
by the Brazilian Institute of Environmental  Studies (IBAMA) in the
Amazon from in the first eight  months of this year. Some three
million cubic feet (90,000 ...

9) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 12, 1999, Sunday 
SECTION: Pg. 19 HEADLINE: Olympics highlight decline of 
platypus BYLINE: OLIVER TICKELL BODY: THE duck-billed 
platypus, adopted as the mascot for the 2000 Olympic Games 
in Sydney, is struggling to survive as deforestation and 
agriculture destroy its habitat. Research from the ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
10) 09/10 DJ US Corn Growers Chide Novartis For Gerber GMO  Decision
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--The National Corn Growers  Association is
blasting the decision by Novartis AG to  eliminate biotech
ingredients from its Gerber baby food  line, according to a letter
obtained by Dow Jones  Newswires. Gerber, attempting to address food
safety ...

11) Jiji Press Ticker Service HEADLINE: Restaurants Moving to 
Ease Concern on Gene-Modified Foods DATELINE: Tokyo, Sept. 
11 BODY: Japanese restaurant chains are studying how to  ease
consumer worries about genetically modified foods  before food makers
are required from 2001 to indicate their  use of such foods. The
Skylark Co. group will begin in ...

12) The Washington Post September 12, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: A; Pg. A01 HEADLINE: Food War Claims Its 
Casualties; High-Tech Crop Fight Victimizes Farmers BYLINE: 
Rick Weiss, Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: As the 
crucial fall harvest season approaches, many U.S. farmers 
and other agricultural workers are in a near panic because ...

 MILIT 

13) US, Japan, South Korea unite against feared North Korea 
missile BYLINE: Kazuhiro Shimamura AUCKLAND, Sept 12 (AFP) 
- US President Bill Clinton agreed in a critical summit 
Sunday with Japan and South Korea to unite against a 
widely-feared North Korean ballistic missile test, Japan's 
premier said. "We agreed to work closely to prevent another ...

 MILITARY 

14) RIGHTS-BRITAIN: ARMS TRADE WITH INDONESIA UNDER ...
LONDON, (Sep. 10) IPS - Britain is one of the main 
exporters of weapons to Indonesia and several other 
countries accused of human rights abuses and/or involved in 
international conflicts, an independent audit released here 
today says. The report, produced by Saferworld, an ...

15) The Washington Times September 12, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: PART C; NATION; Pg. C5 HEADLINE: Celebrities add 
clout to protest of nuclear site; Rural Western ranchers 
weary of dump sites BYLINE: Valerie Richardson; THE 
WASHINGTON TIMES DATELINE: DENVER BODY: DENVER - For 
decades, Westerners have chafed over their role as the ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

16) New Belgian government in nuclear export accord By Gerrard 
Raven BRUSSELS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Belgium's new coalition 
government avoided a crisis on Friday by reversing a ban on 
the sale of equipment to a Pakistani nuclear plant. The row 
over the export of surveillance equipment to the Kanupp 
plant had threatened to expose deep fissures in the ...

 OCEANS 

17) Plan to protect Alaskan beluga whales roils waters By 
Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The 
National Marine Fisheries Service plans to list the beluga 
whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet as a depleted population, an 
official said on Friday, but the designation pleases 
neither environmentalists nor industry representatives. The ...

(GREENPEACE)
18) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 12, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 29
HEADLINE: International: Britain faces wrath of Spain's tuna
fishermen Quota deal breached, says minister BYLINE: by 
JUSTIN WEBSTER in Barcelona BODY: SPAIN will attempt to 
turn the tables in its long-standing fishing war with 
Britain tomorrow by accusing British fishermen of flouting ...

19) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Cousteau team barred from 
Canadian gulf for "harassing whales" DATELINE: TADOUSSAC, 
Canada, Sept 11 BODY: A research team associated with the 
illustrious French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau has been 
barred from Canada's Gulf of Saint Lawrence for reportedly 
mistreating the waterway's wales. Canadian officials were ...

 TOXICS 

20) ENVIRONMENT: DISAPPEARANCE OF AMPHIBIANS, A ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Sep. 9) IPS - Amphibians are dying all 
over the world, even in protected areas -- a living gauge 
of the extent of pollution, says the annual World Wildlife 
Fund International (WWF) report released today in this 
Brazilian city. Freshwater systems like rivers, lakes and ...

21) 09/12 U.N. Works To Ban 12 Chemicals By ALEXANDER G.  HIGGINS GENEVA
(AP) -- Negotiators from 115 nations have  reached tentative
agreement on key elements of a global  treaty aiming to ban a "dirty
dozen" of dangerous chemicals  including DDT, officials said
Saturday. In six days of  talks that ended Saturday, general
agreement was reached ...

22) 09/10 DJ UN Team Says Main Pollution In Serbia Not Caused  By NATO
SOFIA (AP)--A U.N. team sent to Yugoslavia to gauge  the
environmental impact of North Atlantic Treaty  Organization
airstrikes found nearly three-quarters of the  pollution pre- dates
the air campaign, the team's leader  said Friday. "Seventy percent of
the pollution in Serbia ...

(GREENPEACE)
23) NSW: Greenpeace gives Olympics thumbs up BODY: SYDNEY, 
Sept 12 AAP - Greenpeace has given the Sydney Olympics its 
approval because of what it says is organisers' adherence 
to tough environmental guidelines. The Sunday Telegraph 
said the environmental watchdog has given the Games a seven 
out of 10 in a report card due out tomorrow. "There have ...

 X-OTHER-X 

24) FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: "GREEN" BANKERS OFF TO A CHICAGO, 
(Sep. 10) IPS - Top U.S. bankers held talks in Chicago this 
week on "New Roles for Finance in the Race to 
Sustainability" but it seemed that many had stumbled at the 
starting gate. Fundamental questions remained unanswered at 
the fifth annual International Roundtable on Finance and ...

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