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Tuesday, September 21, 1999
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) Edmonton Journal September 21, 1999 Final Business & Money 
F2 Zero-emission coal production possible: But turning 
carbon dioxide into harmless carbonate rock is costly, 
still far in the future BY Grant Robertson A research 
agreement between the Canadian coal industry and a 
prominent U.S. energy laboratory will attempt to prove ...

2) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: India, France to build 
satellite for tropical climate data DATELINE: NEW DELHI, 
Sept 21 BODY: India and France will jointly develop a new 
satellite for climate and weather applications, the chief 
of India's space programme announced Tuesday. Indian Space 
Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Kasturirangan said ...

3) 09/21 DJ Kyoto Treaty Emission Targets "Too Soon"  -Economist
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The 2008-2012 deadline  window for
industrialized nations to reduce emissions of  greenhouse gases under
the 1997 Kyoto climate treaty is  "too soon," an economist with the
International Energy  Agency said Tuesday. The Organization for
Economic ...

 ENERGY 

4) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Critics seek halt to 
Japanese loans for Philippine dam DATELINE: MANILA, Sept. 
21 Kyodo BODY: Japanese parliamentarians and international 
nongovernmental organizations have slammed the planned  release by
Japan's Export-Import Bank of 400 million  dollars in loans for a
controversial dam project in the ...

5) Korea Times September 21, 1999 HEADLINE: Energy-Related 
Taxes to Be Unified in July 2001 BODY: All the taxes 
imposed on energy, including gasoline and diesel oilm will 
be unified into one, starting in July 2001. A total of 500 
billion won will be set aside to be injected into 
manufacturers who will replace high energy-consuming ...

6) The New York Times September 21, 1999, Late Edition - 
Final SECTION: A; Page 20; Column 1; National Desk 
HEADLINE: Battle Waged In the Senate Over Royalties On Oil 
Firms BYLINE: TIM WEINER DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 
BODY: Oil companies drilling on Federal land have been 
accused of habitually underpaying royalties they owe the ...

7) 09/21 Colombia Allows Oil Exploration By JARED KOTLER  BOGOTA,
Colombia (AP) -- The Colombian government granted  Occidental
Petroleum a license to explore for oil next to  Indian lands Tuesday
-- a step a tribe says could spell  death for its people and culture.
Calling the cultural  threat and the environmental impact minimal,
the government ...

 FORESTS 

8) 09/21 Brazil Forest Tops Global Ecology Concerns By Shasta 
Darlington BARRA DO SAHY, Brazil (Reuters) - Fifteen years  ago,
Brazilians didn't even have a name for the lush,  tropical rain
forest that tumbles from seaside mountains to  the ocean along much
of the country's Atlantic coast. They  came up with a name just in
time. The "Mata Atlantica," or ...

9) The Age, Online, Wednesday 22 September 1999 , Lifting of 
ivory ban brings back the poachers NAIROBI, TUESDAY 
Elephant poaching in Kenya's national parks has soared 
since a ban on the sale of ivory was lifted by the United 
Nations earlier this year because of pressure from southern 
African states. ...

10) 09/21 Wildfires scorch tinder-dry Alabama, Mississippi By  Helena de
Moura ATLANTA (Reuters) - Wildfires Tuesday  scorched drought-
stricken Mississippi and Alabama, where  officials said they feared
winds following on the heels of  Tropical Storm Harvey could cause
the blazes to spread  rapidly. "It's unbelievable," Mississippi
Forestry Service ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
11) Russia open for gene-modified feed imports By Aleksandras 
Budrys MOSCOW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia is open to 
imports of genetically modified animal feed, to which there 
are no legal or other barriers, the country's chief 
veterinarian told Reuters on Tuesday. "We are importing 
feed grains that are commonly used in America and Canada," ...

12) Delaware Firm's Test Quickly Identifies Genetically 
Modified Grain By Andrea Knox, The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Sep. 19--Gerber and Heinz have pledged to remove 
genetically modified soybean and corn products from their 
baby foods. Nestle and other big food companies are phasing 
out the use of genetically modified ingredients in Europe. ...

13) FORBES October 4, 1999 SECTION: Technology; Insights; Pg. 
122 HEADLINE: Greens and genes BYLINE: Peter Huber BODY:  YOU CAN
TRUST THEIR CHEESE or their government, but when it  comes to the
French, you can't trust both. Same with most of their Euro-neighbors,
from Birmingham to Berlin. The French  -- who cheerfully swallow
anything that hops, slithers, ...

(GREENPEACE)
14) The Independent (London) September 21, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; 
Pg. 10 HEADLINE: MELCHETT IS SENT FOR TRIAL ON GM CHARGE 
BODY: LORD MELCHETT, executive director of the environmental
campaign group Greenpeace, was committed to crown court 
yesterday for trial on charges of damaging a crop of 
genetically modified maize. The 51-year-old peer, of ...

 MILITARY 

15) FEATURE-Israeli cancer patients fight nuclear reactor By 
Janine Zacharia JERUSALEM, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Months 
before retiring from work at Israel's top-secret nuclear 
reactor deep in the Negev desert, Aryeh Shpeeler discovered 
he had stomach cancer. A Holocaust survivor who worked at 
the Dimona reactor for 27 years in areas he cannot discuss ...

16) The Washington Post September 21, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: A; Pg. A01 HEADLINE: Radiation Risks Long 
Concealed; Paducah Plant Memos Show Fear Of Public Outcry 
BYLINE: Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: 
Managers of the government's Paducah, Ky., uranium plant 
knew for decades of unusual radiation hazards inside the ...

17) India may sign CTBT after Oct. election NEW YORK, Sept. 21 
(Kyodo) -- By: Kohei Murayama India indicated Tuesday it 
may sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 
nuclear weapons after its general election in early October 
as Japan conveyed its readiness to ease sanctions if the 
nation takes "some positive steps" toward joining the ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

18) Lithuanian parliament to debate on N-plant closure 
VILNIUS, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament next 
week will start a debate on a government energy strategy 
that aims to begin decomissioning the country's 
Chernobyl-style Ignalina Nuclear Plant in 2005, the deputy 
speaker said on Tuesday. Wide-ranging discussions on the ...

19) WSJ(9/21):Unicom-Peco Deal Would Create Nuclear-Energy 
Titan By Nikhil Deogun and Rebecca Smith Staff Reporters of 
The Wall Street Journal A full-blown merger between Unicom 
Corp. and Peco Energy Co. would create a utility-industry 
colossus controlling about 17% of the nation's 
nuclear-energy capacity. People familiar with the situation ...

20) Nuclear fuel cargo ships to arrive in Japan TOKYO, Sept 21 
(AFP) - The first shipment to Japan of highly dangerous 
mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel is due to arrive 
here Wednesday on board two armed cargo ships as protestors 
threaten to hold rallies. The 4,648-tonne Pacific Teal and 
the 5,087-tonne Pacific Pintail are scheduled to arrive in ...

21) AP Worldstream September 21, 1999HEADLINE: Georgia detains 
four nuclear smuggling suspects DATELINE: TBILISI, Georgia 
BODY: Georgian border officials detained four people on 
Tuesday for allegedly trying to smuggle a radioactive 
substance into Turkey, a security official said. The four, 
all Georgian citizens, were halted at the Sarpi border ...

 OCEANS 

22) BUSINESS LINE September 21, 1999 SECTION: Business 
HEADLINE: India- El Nino takes heavy toll on coral reefs 
BODY: Our Bureau KOCHI, Sept. 20 Record sea temperatures 
triggered by El Nino and global warming last year sounded 
the death knell to more than 70 per cent of corals off 
Lakshadweep islands, a US State Department study released ...

 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Greenpeace campaigns 
against ship-breaking in India BOMBAY, Sept 21 (AFP) - 
Global environmental group Greenpeace launched a campaign 
here Tuesday against unsafe and polluting ship-breaking, 
which kills more than 100 Indian scrapyard workers every 
year. "We demand safe ship scrapping practices in India and ...

24) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 21, 1999 SECTION: 
Pg. 05 HEADLINE: Experts split over danger of toxins in 
oily fish BYLINE: David Brown and Aisling Irwin BODY: THE 
safety of oily fish, one of the "miracle health foods" of 
the Nineties, was in dispute yesterday after studies 
revealed that they can contain higher than expected levels ...

(GREENPEACE)
25) The Independent (London) September 21, 1999 SECTION: 
FEATURES HEADLINE: ORGANIC FOODS: A GROWING NEED FOR 
CHANGE?; THE INVISIBLE COSTS OF TRADITIONAL FARMING METHODS 
MAY MEAN IT'S TIME TO RE-ASSESS THE ORGANIC ALTERNATIVE. 
BYLINE: David Nicholson-Lord BODY: Organic farming used to 
be denigrated as "all muck and magic" - a primitive ...

(GREENPEACE)
26) HONG KONG STANDARD September 20, 1999, Monday HEADLINE: 
Group warns of poisoned food imports threat, HONG KONG 
STANDARD BODY: PUMPING water from Dongjiang river to a 
closed water pipe system emptying into the Shenzhen 
reservoir would increase the level of pollution in both 
Dongguan and Shenzhen 20-fold, environmental group ...

27) The Age, Online, Wednesday 22 September 1999 , Mercury the 
toxic killer stalking a dolphin colony By PENELOPE DEBELLE 
ADELAIDE About 30 dolphins thatbspend most of their lives 
in the protected waters of Adelaide's Port River face the 
risk of being poisoned by a highly toxic form of mercury. 
Dr Mike Bossley, head of the South Australian-based ...

28) INTERVIEW-Belgian animal feed free of waste- Farm min By 
Alistair Thomson BRUSSELS, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Belgian 
Agriculture Minister Jaak Gabriels said on Tuesday there 
was no chance that animal feed containing waste from 
abattoirs was still being produced in the country despite 
allegations against a feed producer. Waste-processing firm ...

 X-OTHER-X 

29) EUROPE TOPS BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY INDEX BRUSSELS, 
Belgium, September 20, 1999 (ENS) - Europe is the "clear 
front runner" in a new global Dow Jones index ranking 
companies according to sustainability principles, according 
to one of the organisers if the index. 
Launched earlier this month, and said to be the first such ...

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