Global News Headlines 09/22

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Wednesday, September 22, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) Global Fund on Energy Resources, Environment Protection 
Urged HARARE (Sept. 22) XINHUA - An international network 
of non- governmental organizations, EarthAction, Wednesday 
called for the creation of a global fund to finance 
renewable energy and the protection of forests in 
developing countries. EarthAction's international ...

2) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Air pollution 'cut 
dramatically' in Rome on car-free day DATELINE: ROME, Sept 
22 BODY: Air pollution and noise levels dropped  dramatically in Rome
Wednesday as Italians along with  citizens in two other European
countries staged a "car-free  day" aimed at fending off an auto
invasion of their cities. ...

3) Newsweek September 27, 1999, U.S. Edition SECTION: NATION; 
Pg. 18 HEADLINE: Floyds Watery Wrath BYLINE: By Sharon 
Begley and Thomas Hayden; With Erika Check HIGHLIGHT: The 
big storm lost some of its punch, but new hurricanes are 
brewing--and there may be more of them. BODY: There's 
nothing like a monster bigger than Florida to throw a scare ...

4) FLOYD FLOODS CONTAMINATE EAST COAST WATER WASHINGTON, DC, 
September 21, 1999 (ENS) - Flood waters from the aftermath 
of Hurricane Floyd have claimed at least 35 lives in North 
Carolina, and thousands more are still unable to reach 
their homes. Drinking water supplies have been contaminated 
with raw sewage and rotting animal carcasses, and officials ...

 ENERGY 

5) WSJ(9/22): Harassment Of Whistle-Blowers Persists At 
Alyeska By Jim Carlton Staff Reporter of The Wall Street 
Journal The Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. says it has found 
that internal problems, including harassment and 
intimidation of whistle-blowers who point out problems in 
its pipeline operations, persist despite the organization's ...

6) BusinessWorld September 22, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 25 HEADLINE: 
Businesses urged to become eco-efficient BODY: With more 
business and industries contributing to the amount of 
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere resulting mainly from 
the use of fossil fuels, eco-efficiency becomes a must for 
businesses. To help industry cut back the generation of, ...

 FORESTS 

7) WSJ(9/22): EPA Proposals Worry Industry And Agencies By 
Janet I. Tu Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal / 
Northwest Northwest timber officials fear that clean-water 
rules recently proposed by the Environmental Protection 
Agency could prove too tough to meet. They may not have 
anything to worry about, though -- state environmental ...

(GREENPEACE)
8) Vancouver Sun September 22, 1999 Final Business D4 Canfor 
abandons Forest Alliance of B.C. BY Gordon Hamilton, Sun 
Forestry Reporter Canfor Corp. will leave the Forest 
Alliance of B.C., the second major forest company to leave 
the industry lobby group within a year. Alliance official 
Sarah Goodman says Canfor has told the alliance it intends ...

9) Times Colonist (Victoria) September 22, 1999 Final News A1 
/ FRONT Time honours couple called B.C. enemies BY Gerard 
Young A UVic student and her husband once branded by former 
premier Glen Clark as among the enemies of B.C. are now 
being hailed as Canada's future leaders. Environmentalist 
Karen and Ian McAllister, both 30, are among 27 Canadians ...

10) The Province September 22, 1999 Final News A45 Elaho 
old-growth fire accidental: Interfor: `They're cutting fast 
as they can' on proposed park land: Enviro group BY Keith 
Thirkell Interfor admitted yesterday a fire that destroyed 
standing and felled old-growth timber in the Elaho Valley 
started during logging operations. Conservationists want ...

11) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Cut in government subsidies 
could save world's biodiversity: report DATELINE: PARIS, 
Sept 22 BODY: If governments spend only a fraction of the 
money they lavish on environmentally -harmful subsidies, 
the world's biodiversity could be saved, according to a 
study published Thursday. Researchers at the University of ...

12) THE JAKARTA POST September 22, 1999 SECTION: News LENGTH: 
703 words HEADLINE: Deforestation ruins Jambi's rich  medicinal
heritage BODY: SOROLANGUN, Jambi (JP):  Deforestation in Jambi and
Riau is not only depriving  jungle tribespeople of their natural
habitat, but also  destroying plant species with potential medicinal
value. A ...

13) BANGKOK POST September 22, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE: 
PULP PROJECT- Pressure groups up in arms against eucalyptus 
scheme: Prime minister urged to review 'raw deal' BODY: 
Uamdao Noikorn The deal to allow Chinese interests to grow 
400,000 rai of eucalyptus for a planned pulp and paper  plant will
aggravate environmental degradation and poverty, ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

14) St. Louis-Based Corn Association Cautions Growers on 
Careful Crop Preparation By Robert Steyer, St. Louis 
Post-Dispatch Sep. 22--The nation's largest corn trade 
group warned farmers Tuesday to prepare crops carefully for 
market, in light of growing opposition to bioengineered 
foods in Europe and Asia. The National Corn Growers ...

15) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: INDIA FORMULATING STAND ON 
GENETICALLY -MODIFIED FOOD, SEED DATELINE: NEW DELHI, Sept 
22 BODY: India is formulating its stand on allowing imports  of
genetically -modified food and seed in the face of a  global row over
use of such commodities. "We have not taken  any view so far on
genetically modified seed. It is at the ...

(GREENPEACE)
16) Journal of Commerce September 21, 1999 SECTION: WORLD 
TRADE; Pg. 19 HEADLINE: Discussions break off, to resume in 
January BYLINE: JULIA FERGUSON DATELINE: VIENNA BODY: 
Global talks on regulating the multibillion-dollar trade in 
genetically altered foods and crops have ended without 
resolution, but both industry and environmentalists on ...

 MILITARY 

17) 09/22 Mood turns ugly in East Timor, peacekeepers expand  ... By
GEOFF SPENCER DILI, East Timor (AP) -- With the mood  turning ugly,
international peacekeepers expanded their  presence in East Timor on
Wednesday, sending troops into  the territory's second-largest city
even though the force ...

18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: ASEAN parliamentarians call 
for ban on nuclear weapons in region DATELINE: MANILA, Sept 
22 BODY: Lawmakers from the Association of Southeast Asian  Nations
(ASEAN) meeting here on Wednesday adopted a  resolution calling for
the enforcement of a ban on the use  or production of nuclear weapons
in Southeast Asia. ...

19) THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) September 22, 1999, Wednesday 
Edition 1 SECTION: REGIONAL NEWS, Pg. 15 HEADLINE: War 
rages over nuclear signs BODY: SIGNS which inform visitors 
to a former coal mining stronghold that they are entering a 
nuclear -free zone are to stay in place despite a move to 
consign them to the dustbin of history. Labour council ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
20) 09/22 Japan landing of MOX ship postponed by storm By  Elaine Lies
OHKUMA, Japan, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Bad weather  postponed the landing
on Wednesday of a nuclear fuel  shipment to Japan that has sparked
protests around the  world, but a small band of anti-nuclear
activists braved  the storm to make their point. A spokesman for one
of the ...

21) 09/21 WSJ(9/22): THE WALL STREET JOURNAL / CALIFORNIA:  Ward Valley
Project Looks Headed For The Scrap Heap By Marc  Lifsher SACRAMENTO
-- A 16-year-old controversy surrounding  California's efforts to
build a low-level radioactive waste  dump in the Mojave Desert looks
like it's about to end,  finally. Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management, ...

22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Taiwan's reactors undamaged 
by huge quake, says agency DATELINE: TAIPEI, Sept 22 BODY: 
Taiwan's three nuclear power plants escaped damage from 
Tuesday's devastating earthquake, a spokesman for TaiPower 
said Wednesday. "There was absolutely no effect. There was 
no damage at all," he said. The three plants each have two ...

23) AP Worldstream September 22, 1999 HEADLINE: Russia's 
environment chief advocates taking in foreign nuclear waste 
DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: Russia must accept nuclear waste 
from abroad so it can pay for the safekeeping of its own 
spent nuclear material, the country's top environmental 
official said Wednesday. Russia ''has accumulated an ...

(GREENPEACE)
24) Asahi News Service September 22, 1999 HEADLINE: NEW SAFETY 
SCANDAL ENGULFS JAPAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM BYLINE: PETER MCGILL
DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: A safety inspection scandal in the 
British manufacture of potentially hazardous uranium- and 
plutonium -mixed oxide (MOX) fuel rods for use in Japanese 
reactors has created a new nightmare for the nation's ...

(GREENPEACE)
25) The Independent (London) September 22, 1999 SECTION: TITLE 
PAGE; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: NOW SELLAFIELD ADMITS TO 22 FAKED 
NUCLEAR SAFETY CHECKS BYLINE: Steve Connor And Steve Boggan 
BODY: BRITISH NUCLEAR Fuels has admitted that it has 
discovered twice as many faked safety checks on its highly 
dangerous mixed- oxide fuel as previously thought. The ...

 OCEANS 

26) Times Colonist (Victoria) September 22, 1999 Final Canada 
C5 Conservationists search Atlantic for lost fishing gear 
BY Michelle MacAfee ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. -- A Newfoundland 
conservation group is quickly earning a name for itself as 
the Ghostbusters of the Atlantic. But there's nothing 
paranormal about their prey. Instead, they've been combing ...

27) The Christian Science Monitor September 22, 1999 SECTION: 
USA; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Floridians worry that fish traps may 
work too well BYLINE: Warren Richey , Staff writer 
DATELINE: MIAMI HIGHLIGHT: Scientists say the devices could 
deplete crucial reef fish stocks. Opponents want traps 
banned by 2002. BODY: Producing more for less is a ...

 TOXICS 

28) 09/22 EU lifts mandatory testing for dioxin in Belgian beef BRUSSELS,
Belgium (AP) -- The European Union decided to lift Belgium's
obligation to test beef for cancer-causing dioxin  contamination
before export, but maintained the measure for  pork and poultry,
officials said Wednesday. The EU executive Commission is now expected
to formally adopt the necessary ...

(GREENPEACE)
29) The Guardian (London) September 22, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Foreign Pages; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Belgian warning on meat 
farmed near factories BYLINE: Stephen Bates in Brussels 
BODY: Stephen Bates in Brussels Belgium yesterday warned 
the European Union that tests carried out on meat for 
export as a result of the country's animal feed ...

30) Plastics News September 20, 1999 Page 1 GM banishing PVC 
in auto interior panels By Joseph Pryweller PLASTICS NEWS 
STAFF Warren, Mich--General Motors Corp. plans to become 
the first carmaker to eliminate PVC on all its interior 
panels worldwide. 
By 2004, the Detroit-based carmaker expects to use non-PVC ...

 X-OTHER-X 

31) 09/22 FEATURE-Y2K disaster message dims; doubts remain By  Neil
Winton LONDON (Reuters) - Some millennium computer bug  prophets of
doom are having second thoughts, but other  Cassandras are still
insisting that the world faces chaos  at midnight on Dec. 31, 1999.
Computer industry consultant  Peter de Jager has spent more than six
years traveling the ...

32) GAZETA MERCANTIL ONLINE September 22, 1999 HEADLINE: 
Environmental protection will create 1.6 million jobsx 
DATELINE: Brasilia, 09/22/99 BODY: On ratifying the 
Environmental Crimes Law, President Fernando Henrique 
Cardoso said that, in the next few years, 1.6
million jobs will be created in the shpere of environmental...

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