Global News Headlines 09/13

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Monday, September 13, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) WSJ(9/13): US Candidate Bush Builds His 'Green' Credentials
By John J. Fialka Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 
AUSTIN, Texas -- When it comes to air pollution, it's hard 
to beat Texas. To many people in this oil state, a breeze 
with a whiff of sulfur in it is the smell of economic 
success. And cars are sacred. So it shocked almost everyone ...

2) WSJ(9/13): Energy Report: The Producers -- Dirty Dealings 
By Mark Golden When asked what he does for a living, 
Carlton Bartels is direct. "I broker the right to pollute," 
he says. Mr. Bartels, a managing director at the brokerage 
firm Cantor Fitzgerald LP, brings together buyers and 
sellers of "right-to- pollute" credits, formally known as ...

3) BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political September 13, 1999 
HEADLINE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: ISLANDERS' CROPS RUINED BY 
RISING SEA LEVELS SOURCE: Text of report by the 'Papua New 
Guinea Post-Courier' web site on 13th September Islanders 
in the Bougainville area were in desperate need of food, a 
government minister has warned. Some people on the atolls, ...

4) The Scotsman September 13, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 9 HEADLINE: 
BRITAIN'S BIRDLIFE WARMS TO CLIMATE CHANGE BYLINE: 
Christopher Cairns BODY: CLIMATE change may be helping some 
of Britain's best-loved birds to survive. The largest 
survey ever undertaken of the country's most common birds 
has shown a marked improvement in breeding success for many ...

5) The Vancouver Sun September 11, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; 
B2 HEADLINE: Snow, rains kill three in Chile: The 
precipitation brings an end to the country's worst drought 
of this century but rainfall is still below par. DATELINE: 
SANTIAGO BODY: SANTIAGO -- Freak snowstorms and rains have 
killed at least three people in Chile while bringing an ...

 ENERGY 

6) WSJ(9/13): Energy Report:Green Fees:Will Consumers Pay 
More? By Bryan Lee The sticker on the window of John 
Shahabian's coffee shop in Sacramento, Calif., says it all: 
"Greenergy."
The logo tells customers that the store buys its 
electricity from suppliers that don't pollute the ...

7) THE RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS REPORT September 13, 1999 SECTION: 
ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE HEADLINE: ECOLOGISTS CLOSE 
SARATOVNEFTEGAZ OIL DEPOT SOURCE: Finmarket agency, 
September 10, 1999 BODY: For the first time in the Saratov 
Region, environmentalists have shut down the oil collecting 
depot of Saratovneftegaz, located on Zeleny Island in the ...

8) The Times (London) September 13, 1999 SECTION: Business 
HEADLINE: J Sainsbury to unveil 'green store' in Greenwich 
BYLINE: Fraser Nelson and Jenny Carey BODY: J SAINSBURY 
will tomorrow open what it claims is the "world's most 
energyefficient supermarket" in the shadow of the 
Millennium Dome - complete with solar panels, wind turbines ...

9) 09/13 DJ Enron Wind Project In Calif. Deemed Threat To  Condor
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--National Audubon Society  launched a campaign
Monday designed to block a proposed  Enron Corp. (ENE) wind power
project that the group says  threatens the nearly extinct California
condor. The project  is one of five that Enron's wind energy unit has
asked the ...

 FORESTS 

10) BANGKOK POST September 13, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE: 
Editorial- State forest policies are in contradiction BODY: 
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's warning recently to 
provincial governors to curb any illegal logging in areas 
under their control or suffer a setback in their career 
advancement was welcome but unfortunately came too late and ...

11) The Irish Times September 13, 1999 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; SCIENCE TODAY; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Biodiversity 
feeds not just the body but the soul, too BYLINE: By DR 
WILLIAM REVILLE BODY: Biodiversity means biological 
diversity, the range and mix of biological species. Global 
biodiversity is shrinking, and any significant further ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

12) FOCUS-Agribusiness put on defensive by legal threat By 
Jonathan Birt, European pharmaceuticals correspondent 
VIENNA, Sept 13 (Reuters) -- The world's largest 
agricultural businesses on Monday pledged to defend 
themselves against a potential multi-billion dollar 
antitrust suit alleging they are tying up the world market ...

13) European biotech group rejects crop control claims 
RUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A group representing Europe's 
life sciences industry said on Monday there was no evidence 
to support allegations its members unfairly controlled the 
market for genetically modified crops. Industry association 
Europabio was responding to an article in Monday's Financial...

(GREENPEACE)
14) BBC News Online, Monday, September 13, 1999 Greenpeace 
rejects 'secret GM sites' Greenpeace has dismissed hints 
that the government may hide the locations of 
genetically-modified (GM) crop trials if protesters 
continue to attack them. 
The Cabinet Office has said it is up to environment groups ...

15) FOCUS-Planned lawsuit to further debate on biotech crop By 
Julie Vorman WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Two U.S. farm 
and environmental groups said Monday they would file a 
lawsuit seeking billions of dollars in damages from major 
agribusiness companies that have allegedly amassed too much 
control over genetically-modified (GM) seeds. The planned ...

 MILITARY 

16) Jakarta's retreat on E.Timor sparks anger at home By Chris 
McCall JAKARTA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Protesters in Indonesia 
smashed up an Australian office and sparked other 
confrontations on Monday as Jakarta's decision to let U.N. 
troops into East Timor triggered a mix of resignation and 
anti-Western anger. Protesters stormed the representative ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

17) FEATURE - Japan environmentalists battle Y2K bug By Yvonne 
Chang TOKYO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - When Yumi Kikuchi learned 
of the "Y2K" issue, she thought it was a gift from god -- a 
chance to promote her earth-friendly lifestyle. "The Y2K 
issue is a big challenge, but I'm looking forward to it," 
said Kikuchi, a banker-turned-environmentalist. "We can use ...

18) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Russia says aims to export nuclear 
power to Europe UK: September 13, 1999 LONDON - Russia 
hopes to boost its electricity grid capacity to allow it to 
export nuclear power to Europe, Russian Atomic Energy 
Minister Yevgeni Adamov said. 
"We have a good international position to produce ...

19) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: German government and 
energy executives to discuss ending atomic energy DATELINE: 
BERLIN, Sept 13 BODY: German Foreign and Enivronment 
Minister Joschka Fischer and Juergen Trittin, both from the 
Greens ecologist party, are to meet in Berlin Friday with 
energy executives to discuss ending atomic energy in ...

20) 09/14 SAFETY WATCHDOGS VISIT SELLAFIELD IN CHECKING ALERT  By Peter
Walker, PA News Nuclear safety watchdogs were  today visiting the
Sellafield nuclear plant following  allegations of irregularities in
checks on nuclear fuel  destined for export, it was reported today.
Some checks on  uranium and plutonium mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel rods
produced ...

 OCEANS 

21) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE INTERVIEW - Consumers key to 
Argentine fishery ARGENTINA: September 13, 1999 BUENOS 
AIRES - Consumer awareness of unsustainable fishing 
practices is Argentina's best hope for salvaging its 
depleted South Atlantic fish stocks now that the European 
Union wants to renew a fishing agreement there, a leading ...

22) Baltic News Service HEADLINE: FISHING QUOTAS IN BALTIC SEA 
REDUCED FOR 2000 DATELINE: RIGA, Sept 13 BODY: Fishing 
quotas for Latvia in the Baltic Sea have been reduced for 
2000 because the fish stocks have dwindled, Latvian  Fisheries
Research Institute told BNS following the  International Baltic Sea
Fisheries Commission meeting that ...

 TOXICS 

23) 09/13 UN Progress Slow On 'Dirty Dozen' Pollutants Ban  GENEVA
(Reuters) - Negotiators meeting in Geneva under U.N.  auspices have
struck a preliminary deal to ban eight of a  "dirty dozen" of toxic
pollutants in a global pact but have  exempted the harmful
insecticide DDT, officials said Monday. There was also no accord on
the elimination of ...

24) EU to study French use of sewage in animal feed BRUSSELS, 
Sept 13 (Reuters) - European Union experts are expected 
this week to discuss alarming reports that France and other 
countries may be putting human sewage sludge into animal 
feed, EU officials said on Monday. The EU's influential 
Standing Committee for Animal Nutrition (SCAN) will discuss ...

(GREENPEACE)
25) The Globe and Mail, How green is my company PETER COOK 
Monday, September 13, 1999 Brussels -- When Placer Pacific, 
a subsidiary of Canada's Placer Dome Inc., wrote a green 
report two years ago, it was because the Australian Mining 
Code required it and because it had some explaining to do. 
A spill at its Marcopper mine in the Philippines had ...

26) The Times (London) September 13, 1999 SECTION: Home news 
HEADLINE: Kestrels the latest victims of intensive farming 
BYLINE: Nick Nuttall environment correspondent BODY: THE 
kestrel and yellowhammer have become the latest victims of 
intensive agriculture, joining the skylark, linnet and 
bullfinch in suffering steep population declines during the ...

(GREENPEACE)
27) Sacramento Bee September 12, 1999, METRO FINAL SECTION: 
FORUM; Pg. I1 HEADLINE: ANOTHER PHONY HEALTH SCARE BYLINE: 
Gregg Easterbrook BODY: Buried in the back pages of the 
newspapers a week ago were reports that the National 
Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of 
Sciences, had found no proof that synthetic chemicals act ...

 X-OTHER-X 

28) THE SAIGON TIMES DAILY September 13, 1999 SECTION: News 
HEADLINE: Japan to start "Green Aid Plan" in Vietnam BODY: 
(SGT-DANANG) The Green Aid Plan (GAP) - an initiative by the
Japanese government - would be carried out in Vietnam from 
next year, said Toshio Asakura, chief representative in 
Hanoi of the Japan Economic and Trading Promotion ...

29) The Guardian (London) September 13, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Media Pages; Pg. 8 BODY: Somewhere in McDonald's there's 
the person who decided that it would be a good idea to sue 
a bunch of environmental activists who had been leafleting 
restaurants with claims about the company's policies on 
labour and animal welfare. It was a no-lose situation. How ...

30) Los Angeles Times September 13, 1999, Home Edition 
SECTION: Business; Part C; Page 1; Financial Desk HEADLINE: 
CLINTON URGES SAFETY NET FOR WORLD ECONOMY; SUMMIT: 
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENT CONCERNS AND 
CALLS FOR CANDOR TO EASE RESISTANCE TO GLOBAL TRADE. 
BYLINE: MARK MAGNIER, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE: ...

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