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Global News Headlines 09/16
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Friday, September 17, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Canada/Yukon Government ...
SEP 17, 1999, M2 Communications - Whitehorse -- Yukon
residents will soon learn more about the possible impacts
of climate change on their environment thanks in part to
the Government of Canada's Climate Change Action Fund
(CCAF). Environment Canada Minister David Anderson and ...
2) AP Worldstream September 17, 1999; Friday LENGTH: 180 words
HEADLINE: Court clears way for car-less Sunday in Amsterdam
DATELINE: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands BODY: An Amsterdam court
on Friday cleared away the last challenge to this weekend's
''Auto-Free Sunday,'' an effort by environmental groups to
call attention to pollution and congestion by banning ...
3) New Scientist September 18, 1999 SECTION: Comment:
Editorial, Pg. 3 LENGTH: 248 words HEADLINE: If at first
you don't succeed . . . BODY: WHO knows what tomorrow will
bring ? As a sentiment, that would do well in a dictionary
of platitudes. Not, however, in a report from the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Yet the panel, ...
4) New Scientist September 18, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 5
LENGTH: 484 words HEADLINE: All bets are off BYLINE: Fred
Pearce HIGHLIGHT: Can we still make simple predictions
about climate change ? BODY: CLIMATE scientists have ripped
up their old forecasts of greenhouse gas emissions in the
next century, warning that they could be much too ...
5) New Scientist September 18, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 12
LENGTH: 257 words HEADLINE: Killer on the loose BYLINE:
Kurt Kleiner BODY: HEALTH officials in the US say they
still don't know why New York City has suffered an outbreak
of deadly encephalitis. Some scientists blame global
warming for the spread of the disease, which is transmitted ...
6) New Scientist September 18, 1999 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 13
LENGTH: 554 words HEADLINE: The comeback killer BYLINE:
Debora MacKenzie HIGHLIGHT: Malaria is taking hold again in
Europe's mosquitoes BODY: EUROPE faces "a serious risk of
an uncontrollable resurgence of malaria", warns the WHO in
a new report. Drainage, drugs and insecticides eradicated ...
7) The Guardian (London) September 17, 1999 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages; Pg. 11 LENGTH: 419 words HEADLINE: Nature
reserves begin to feel heat; Warming may make rare species
move north BYLINE: Paul Brown Environment Correspondent
BODY: Paul Brown Environment Correspondent Concern that
Britain's nature reserves may turn out to be all in the ...
ENERGY
8) Interfax Russian News September 17, 1999, Friday LENGTH:
211 words HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENTALISTS ACCUSE OKIOC OF POLLUTING
CASPIAN SEA BODY: ASTANA. Sept 17 (InterfaxKazakhstan)- Kazakh
environmentalists have accused the Offshore Kazakhstan International
Operating Company (OKIOC) of polluting the Caspian Sea. The Atyrau ...
FORESTS
9) The Ottawa Citizen Friday, September 17, 1999 Early News A5
Loggers blamed in attack VANCOUVER -- Squamish RCMP are
investigating the alleged assault of eight
environmentalists in the Elaho Valley by up to 100 loggers.
``These people allege they were assaulted, vehicles were
damaged and property was burned,'' said Const. Dan Seward. ...
10) REUTERS INTERVIEW - Story by Noriko Yamaguchi Raytheon
homes in on Brazil's Amazon BRAZIL: September 17, 1999 SAO
PAULO - U.S. defence giant Raytheon Co. said it will help
fight the shrinking of the rainforest in Brazil through its
key role in setting up a $1.4 billion surveillance project
on the health of the Amazon. ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
11) 09/17 Farmers Say No Law Broken On US GMO Corn To Russia By Daniel
Rosenberg CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--U.S. grain experts were both
irritated and perplexed this week by a Greenpeace statement accusing
the U.S. of unlawfully sending genetically engineered corn to
Russia. Greenpeace said in Vienna Thursday that samples it obtained
and had analyzed ...
(GREENPEACE)
12) OTC 09/17 1232 Monsanto accused of violating biotech safety
rules Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Sep. 17, 1999 (Resource News
International via COMTEX) -- Biotech giant Monsanto exported
Canadian genetically engineered (GE) potatoes to Ukraine,
ignoring the domestic laws which require environmental
impact assessment, according to a Greenpeace report ...
(GREENPEACE)
13) Russia denies knowledge of GM maize imports MOSCOW, Sept
17 (Reuters) - Russian authorities expressed surprise on Friday at a
report by environmental campaigners Greenpeace that the country had
imported genetically modified maize. "No genetically modified foods
can cross the border without a license," said the head of the food
division of the State ...
14) UK restaurants to start GM labelling Sunday LONDON, Sept
17 (Reuters) - Regulations requiring all restaurants to identify
dishes containing genetically modified ingredients come into force
on Sunday, a Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food spokeswoman
said on Friday. The regulations which also apply to pubs, canteens
and other ...
15) PA 09/17 1751 UNLAWFUL FRANKENSTEIN CROP TRIALS MUST BE
DESTROYED' _ By Michael Clarke, Deputy Political Editor, PA
News Jubilant green campaigners said tonight they would ask
a judge to order the latest wave of genetically modified
crop trials to be dug up, following a Government legal
climbdown. Environment minister Michael Meacher admitted ...
16) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 300 words HEADLINE: US calls
for open debate on genetically modified foods DATELINE:
BRUSSELS, Sept 17 BODY: Washington favors an open debate
among scientists, politicians and the public on genetically
modified foods, a sore point in US-European trade, US Under
Secretary for Trade David Aaron said Friday. Aaron said at ...
(GREENPEACE)
17) September 17, 1999, Friday LENGTH: 248 words HEADLINE:
TAS: Trade opportunities from GE-food backlash; Greens BODY:
GENETIC HOBART, Sept 16 AAP - A huge European consumer
backlash against genetically modified foods provides an
unrivalled opportunity for clean and organic Australian
food, Tasmanian Greens MP Peg Putt said today. Ms Putt urged...
(GREENPEACE)
18) The Toronto Star September 16, 1999, Thursday, Edition 1
SECTION: BUSINESS LENGTH: 657 words HEADLINE: U.N. TALKS
SET STAGE FOR MODIFIED FOOD FIGHT BYLINE: Stuart Laidlaw
BODY: United Nations talks this week in Vienna on the trade
of genetically modified foods are shaping into a dry run
for world trade talks later this year in Seattle. ''It is ...
(GREENPEACE)
19) September 16, 1999 Opponents of biotech food to lobby
public By Barry Wilson Ottawa bureau When health and
environmental activists began planning an autumn public
relations assault against food containing genetically
modified material, farm lobbyist Sally Rutherford was
hardly surprised. ...
MILITARY
20) UK anti-arms campaigners urge greater scrutiny By Dominic
Evans LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Anti-arms trade
campaigners urged the British government on Friday to open
up controversial weapons sales to public scrutiny after a
storm of criticism over arms exports to Indonesia. They
said parliament should have greater powers to vet sales by ...
21) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Supplied by
BBC Worldwide Monitoring September 17, 1999, Friday LENGTH:
209 words HEADLINE: RUSSIA DENIES NUCLEAR TESTS ON ARCTIC SITE BODY:
Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow,
16th September: The Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy today refuted
US media reports of nuclear ...
22) The Toronto Star September 17, 1999, Friday, Edition 1
SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 539 words HEADLINE: ACTIVISTS CALL
FOR YEAR-END ATOMIC SAFETY 'HOLIDAY' BYLINE: Jim Wolf BODY:
WASHINGTON - Environmentalists and arms control activists
call it a modest proposal - a kind of Year 2000 insurance
policy for the world. Power down the 433 nuclear reactors ...
NUCLEAR POWER
23) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 17, 1999, Friday, BC
Cycle LENGTH: 732 words HEADLINE: Chernobyl safe from
millennium bug, plant's director claims DATELINE: Kiev BODY:
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe from the year
2000 computer bug, the Interfax news agency reported Friday, quoting
Chernobyl's director Vitaly Tovstonohov. In order ...
24) New Scientist September 18, 1999 SECTION: This Week:
British Association, Pg. 21 LENGTH: 477 words HEADLINE:
Dead and buried BYLINE: Rob Edwards HIGHLIGHT: Sheffield
played host to Britain's annual festival of science.
Memories of surgery, nuclear waste and a wake-up call for
TB were among the highlights BODY: IF YOU bury it deep ...
25) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 180 words HEADLINE: Australia
says no to British nuclear dump plan DATELINE: PERTH,
Australia, Sept 17 BODY: Western Australian Premier Richard
Court has left for London to personally deliver his
government's rejection of a British proposal for a
radioactive waste dump in the remote Australian desert. He ...
26) Baltic News Service September 17, 1999 LENGTH: 328 words
HEADLINE: NUCLEAR ENERGY ASSOCIATION SEES CLOSURE OF
LITHUANIAN NUKE A CRIME DATELINE: VILNIUS, Sep 17 BODY: The
decision by the Lithuanian government to decommission the
first unit of its Soviet-built nuclear plant in Ignalina is
a crime, the Lithuanian Nuclear Energy Association said in ...
27) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 17, 1999, Friday
SECTION: PART 1 Former USSR; FUEL AND ENERGY; NUCLEAR
INDUSTRY; SU/W0606/WA LENGTH: 141 words HEADLINE:
Petersburg firm to build power plant in Jordan BODY: [35]
Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS St
Petersburg, 9th September: The Energomashkorporatsiya ...
28) The Independent (London) September 17, 1999, Friday
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. 18 LENGTH: 418 words HEADLINE: BNFL
POISED TO BUY NUCLEAR DIVISION OF ABB BYLINE: Michael
Harrison Business Editor BODY: BRITISH NUCLEAR FUELS, the
state-owned reprocessing company, is poised to buy the
nuclear division of ABB, the Swedish-Swiss engineering ...
OZONE
29) 09/16 Clinton Proposes Ozone Amendment WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citing
evidence that the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking, President
Clinton on Thursday offered the Senate an amendment to a 1989 treaty
on reducing ozone-damaging chemicals. He urged Congress to fund
initiatives to continue that progress. Clinton offered an amendment
to the Montreal ...
30) ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Environment Minister ...
SEP 17, 1999, M2 Communications - OTTAWA -- Environment
Minister David Anderson today marked International Ozone
Day by highlighting Canadian achievements in addressing
ozone depletion since 1987, when Canada and 23 other
countries signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that ...
TOXICS
31) 09/16 FEATURE-Wyoming town fights incinerator in ... FEATURE-Wyoming
town fights incinerator in another state By Alice Ratcliffe JACKSON,
Wyoming, Sept. 17 (Reuters) - Rich celebrity home owners and scruffy
environmentalists have forged an unlikely alliance in this tiny
community to fight a toxic waste incinerator planned in neighbouring
Idaho. ...
32) 09/17 Chicken Droppings, Manure Help To Clean Up DDT By Patricia
Reaney SHEFFIELD, England (Reuters) - Canadian researchers are using
chicken droppings, cow mature and waste paper in a new technique to
clean up land contaminated with DDT and other dangerous pesticides.
The new technology, which has been tested in Florida, uses ...
33) Birmingham Post September 17, 1999, Friday SECTION: NEWS;
Pg. 6 LENGTH: 529 words HEADLINE: PLEA FOR SAFETY CHECKS ON
FOOD; PESTICIDE FEARS OVER SUPERMARKET FRUIT BYLINE: Bob
Roberts And Mandy Brown Special Correspondents BODY: Food
campaigners have called for new safety checks to be
introduced after fruit and vegetables in supermarkets were ...
34) The Guardian (London) September 17, 1999 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages; Pg. 4 LENGTH: 372 words HEADLINE: Researchers
claim pesticide residues pose no health risks BYLINE: Paul
Kelso BODY: Paul Kelso Government scientists moved
yesterday to calm consumer fears about the levels of
pesticide residues found in food sold at supermarkets as ...
X-OTHER-X
(GREENPEACE)
35) New Scientist September 18, 1999 SECTION: This Week: This
Week - Focus, Pg. 18 LENGTH: 1285 words HEADLINE: To the
virtual barricades BYLINE: Duncan Graham-Rowe HIGHLIGHT:
Forget sit-ins and demos. Now political activists have the
cyberpower to bring down governments BODY: ON 16 August,
two weeks before East Timor's referendum on independence, ...
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