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Global News Headlines 09/14
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) The Canberra Times September 14, 1999, Tuesday Edition
SECTION: Part A; Page 9 HEADLINE: GREENHOUSE CHICKENS
COMING HOME TO ROOST BODY: "THE United States is
stockpiling an environmental debt to the world which will
have terrible consequences on the lives of millions, from
El Nino in Latin America, to famines in the Horn of Africa ...
2) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Dupont sets goal to sharply cut
greenhouse gasses USA: September 14, 1999 WASHINGTON -
U.S. chemical giant DuPont Co. said it would seek to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent from 1990 levels by
2010, taking "early action" even before a global climate change
treaty is enacted. ...
3) 09/14 Floyd Pounds Bahamas, Millions Flee U.S. Coast By Athena
Damianos NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) - Hurricane Floyd, one of the
strongest ever known in the Atlantic, ravaged the Bahamas Tuesday
and sparked an exodus of two million people from parts of Florida
and Georgia where catastrophic damage was feared. The Bahamian
island of ...
4) 09/14 Clinton Releasing Antarctica Images By TERENCE HUNT
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand (AP) -- President Clinton, stressing a need
to protect the world's environment, is releasing previously
classified satellite images of Antarctica to help scientists chart
global climate change. The images include two sets of detailed
pictures from the early 1970s and ...
ENERGY
5) United Press International HEADLINE: UPI Focus) Nigerian
natural gas production starts DATELINE: BONNY, Nigeria,
Sept. 14 BODY: One of Africa's biggest industrial projects
-- a massive liquefied natural gas plant on the Nigerian
coast -- has started production. Situated in the town of
Bonny in the Niger Delta and costing some $3. 8 billion to ...
6) Mobil to be prosecuted over Adelaide oil spill BYLINE: By
Sam Lienert BODY: ADELAIDE, Sept 14 AAP - Mobil is to face
prosecution over a giant oil spill in June near its Port
Stanvac refinery, south of Adelaide. Environment Protection
Authority (EPA) chairman Stephen Walsh said the authority
expected to lay charges within weeks and Mobil could be ...
7) Baltic News Service HEADLINE: ESTONIA, GERMANY CONSIDER
COOPERATION IN WIND ENERGY DATELINE: TALLINN, Sep 14 BODY:
Estonian parliament Deputy Chairman Tunne Kelam and Prime
Minister of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein Heide
Simonis discussed alternative power generation methods at a
meeting in Tallinn Tuesday. Simonis spoke about Germany's ...
8) ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 13, 1999
$230,000 FUNDS RENEWABLE PROJECTS ON TRIBAL LANDS The
Department of Energy (DOE) is funding five renewable energy
projects worth almost $230,000 to help buy renewable energy
systems for schools, medical centers and other facilities
in Native American communities. In addition, the DOE is ...
FORESTS
9) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 14, 1999 HEADLINE: Haze
meeting in Indonesia now in doubt DATELINE: Singapore BODY:
Fires are burning out of control in South Kalimantan but a
planned meeting between ASEAN officials and plantation
owners appears unlikely with Jakarta focusing on the East
Timor crisis, Singapore environmental officials said on ...
10) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: CITES urges Japan to ban
trade in tiger specimens DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept. 14 Kyodo
BODY: The Geneva-based environmental watchdog CITES has
urged Japan to ban domestic trade in tiger parts and
derivatives. A report by the CITES technical mission, a
copy of which was obtained by Kyodo News, said it suspects ...
11) BBC Online Special Report Sheffield 99 September 13, 1999
Rice crop to fight rainforest destruction By BBC Science's
Corinne Podger An isolated rainforest community on the
island of Java in Indonesia is tackling the destruction
caused by slash-and-burn agriculture by planting rice crops
on the same land as fast-growing trees. ...
12) NZ LABOUR PARTY WOULD HALT RAINFOREST LOGGING By Bob
Burton WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 13, 1999 (ENS) -
The New Zealand Labour Party announced Friday that if it
wins government in the election due later this year it will
stop all logging of rainforests on public land on the west
coast of New Zealand's South Island. ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
13) EU pledges united defence of farm policy in WTO By David
Evans TAMPERE, Finland, Sept 14 (Reuters) - European Union
farm ministers on Tuesday presented a united front in
defending the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy in new
global trade talks and recognised they would have to go on
the offensive to counter attacks from the United States and ...
14) 09/09 AFRICA-TRADE: AFRICA AGAINST PATENTING LIFE FORMS MEXICO
CITY, (Sep. 8) IPS - African nations are in the forefront of a
battle with big agribusiness concerns over the companies' attempts
to patent biological materials and plant varieties. Africa is
currently rounding up the support of countries in other areas of the
developing world ...
15) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Genetic food fight heats up
DATELINE: BANGKOK, Sept 14 BODY: Commercial food giant
Monsanto hit out Tuesday at non- governmental and
traditional farming organisations over their reluctance to
embrace genetically modified crops and other biotechnology
advances. Monsanto Asia-Pacific research director Paul Teng ...
16) The Irish Times September 14, 1999 SECTION: CITY EDITION;
HOME NEWS; Pg. 6 HEADLINE: GMO lobbyists say supermarket
promise can't be kept BYLINE: KEVIN O'SULLIVAN,
Environmental and Food Science Correspondent BODY: Claims
by supermarkets that they will be able to supply food that
does not contain genetically modified organisms will not ...
17) National Post September 14, 1999 NATIONAL EDITIONS
SECTION: FINANCIAL POST; Pg. C01 / Front HEADLINE:
Saskatchewan farmer files countersuit against Monsanto
BYLINE: Carol Howes DATELINE: CALGARY BODY: CALGARY - A
Saskatchewan farmer has taken on biochemical giant Monsanto
Co. in what's become a David and Goliath battle over the ...
(GREENPEACE)
18) 09/14 Greenpeace Mexico decries genetically altered food MEXICO CITY
(Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace said in Mexico Tuesday
that genetically modified corn imports from the United States posed
a threat to Mexico's corn crop, a butterfly reserve and public
health. "The policy of (Agriculture Minister) Romarico Arroyo (to
allow imports) ...
MILITARY
19) WRAPUP-UN evacuates 1,500 refugees from East Timor By Nick
Macfie JAKARTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations on
Tuesday closed its compound in the devastated East Timor
capital Dili and evacuated 1,500 East Timorese from the
smouldering city. As the U.N. presence in Dili dwindled to
a mere handful of people because of security worries, the ...
20) The Australian, PEACEKEEPERS MAY SHOOT TO KILL By ROBERT
GARRAN and staff reporters 15sep99 THE East Timor peace
force, now almost certain to be led by Australia with the
first units in place as early as tomorrow, will have orders
to shoot to kill in what has become a much more dangerous
mission than the Government expected. ...
NUCLEAR POWER
(GREENPEACE)
21) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japan nuclear plants to
send inspectors to Britain to check MOX fuel BYLINE: Kiriko
Nishiyama DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept 14 BODY: Two Japanese power
firms said Tuesday they would send inspectors to Britain's
Sellafield nuclear plant after warnings over false
quality-control checks for fuel rods destined for Japan. ...
22) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 14, 1999
HEADLINE: Atomic Energy Corporation decries lack of nuclear
waste policy SOURCE: Text of report by South African news
agency SAPA web site on 4th September South Africa's lack
of a national policy on radioactive waste was hampering the
Atomic Energy Corporation's (AEC) ability to manage the ...
23) The Independent (London) September 14, 1999 SECTION: TITLE
PAGE; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: INSPECTORS SENT IN AS SELLAFIELD
ADMITS TO SERIOUS SAFETY LAPSES BYLINE: Steve Connor
Science Editor BODY: THE NUCLEAR Installations
Inspectorate, the official watchdog on nuclear safety, is
to visit Sellafield today after an admission by officials ...
(GREENPEACE)
24) The Independent (London) September 14, 1999 SECTION: NEWS;
Pg. 3 HEADLINE: INSIDE BUILDING B33, BRITAIN'S MOST RISKY
RECYCLING OPERATION MAY BE GOING WRONG; SELLAFIELD SAFETY
FEARS BNFL REPROCESSES PLUTONIUM AND URANIUM, AND SAYS
'IT'S LIKE MAKING CAKES'. WHY, THEN, HAVE RECORDS BEEN
'FALSIFIED'? BYLINE: Steve Boggan BODY: INSIDE BUILDING B33 ...
(GREENPEACE)
25) The Evening Post (Wellington) September 11, 1999 SECTION:
NEWS; NATIONAL; Pg. 5 HEADLINE: Leaders condemn plutonium
cargoes BODY: Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace
yesterday welcomed demands by Fiji and Vanuatu for
plutonium shipments from Europe to Japan to stop. Fiji's
Minister of Foreign Affairs Tupeni Baba and Vanuatu's Prime ...
26) 09/14 Paducah Plant By JAMES PRICHARD EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) --
Federal investigators at a cleanup site in Kentucky found
shortcomings at a uranium plant but no impending hazards to workers
or the public, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Tuesday. The
Energy Department investigation follows the recent revelation of a
federal ...
OCEANS
27) New Straits Times (Malaysia) September 14, 1999 SECTION:
National; Pg. 9 HEADLINE: Approval for fish rearing in
lagoons to boost production BYLINE: Azura Abas DATELINE:
Besut BODY: BESUT, Mon. - The Government has approved the
rearing of fish in lagoons across the country which will
obviate the need for nets or cages. Agriculture Minister ...
TOXICS
28) Dioxin seen costing Belgium $899 mln - govt source By
Alistair Thomson BRUSSELS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Belgium's
crisis over dioxin contamination in food is set to cost the
country's Treasury an estimated 35 billion Belgian francs
($898.8 million), a government source said on Tuesday.
Budget Minister Johan Vande Lanotte said earlier this ...
29) AP Worldstream September 14, 1999HEADLINE: Study: poisons
leaching from damaged Yugoslav industries DATELINE: BERLIN
BODY: Toxic pollutants from Yugoslav industrial plants hit
during NATO's 78-day bombing continue to leach into the
Danube river, an environmental group said Tuesday. The
study commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature focused...
30) International Herald Tribune September 14, 1999, SECTION:
News; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Treaty Talks Fail to Resolve DDT
Question BYLINE: Elizabeth Olson; International Herald
Tribune DATELINE: GENEVA BODY: Negotiators have reached a
broad agreement to ban most of the ''dirty dozen'' - 12
highly toxic chemicals and pesticides - but were unable to ...
31) BBC Online Special Report Sheffield 99 September 14, 1999
Organic farming can 'feed the world' by BBC Science's
Corinne Podger Organic farming could produce enough food to
feed large populations, according to British scientists at
the Festival of Science in Sheffield. It may be
environmentally friendly, but advocates of modern intensive ...
32) BBC Online Tuesday, September 14, 1999 UK Health Europe to
consider tests on PVC toys Could rubber ducks pose a health
risk to children? The European Commission is to consider
compulsory tests on potentially dangerous chemicals found
in some toys. The Commission will consider on Tuesday
whether there should be a Europe-wide safety test on ...
X-OTHER-X
33) INDIAN ELECTIONS CREATE GREEN WALLFLOWERS By Subir Ghosh
NEW DELHI, India, September 13, 1999 (ENS) - Indian
politicians talk green at seminars and conferences. But
come polling time and the environment makes them see red.
The largest democratic elections in the world in terms of
sheer statistics throw up innumerable issues. But the ...
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