Global News Headlines 09/23

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Thursday, September 23, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: "Car-free day" leaves 
French divided DATELINE: PARIS, Sept 23 BODY: An ambitious 
"car-free day" that temporarily freed up France's city 
streets left the public divided Thursday and sparked press 
accusations that the scheme was a gimmick that did not 
resolve traffic problems. An opinion poll published by the ...

2) The Christian Science Monitor September 23, 1999 SECTION: 
WORLD; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: 'Buying' oxygen is polluted 
countries' latest remedy BYLINE: Ruth Walker , Staff writer 
DATELINE: TORONTO HIGHLIGHT: Last week, Canada and Honduras 
agreed to ex-change debt pardons for BODY: In a bid to 
scrub its environmental scorecard - if not its own skies ...

 ENERGY 

3) 09/23 Canadian Utils Fear Proposed U.S. Policies On  Renewables
TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Elements of some proposed  U.S. electricity
restructuring bills, if passed, would  unfairly discriminate against
Canadian energy sales to the  U.S., the Canadian Electricity
Association told federal and  provincial energy ministers at a recent
meeting. Of several ...

4) 09/22 Ads by Ecuadoran plaintiffs accuse Texaco of racism  By Grant
McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ecuadoran rainforest  Indians suing
Texaco Inc. for allegedly polluting their  water and land with oil
and waste, Thursday began a  newspaper, TV and radio ad campaign in
the U.S. charging  the company with racism. A spokeswoman for the
White ...

5) Africa News September 23, 1999 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS & 
COMMENTARY HEADLINE: Nigeria; Strife flares in oil-rich 
delta BYLINE: Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) BODY: 
Johannesburg - Violence is posing a threat to Nigeria's 
chief source of income. John Vidal reports from Port 
Harcourt on the fight for the country's oil wealth The ...

(GREENPEACE)
6) WORLD ENERGY 4 NORTH SEA OIL: Siren of the north: WHITE 
ZONE by Robert Corzine: The former no-man's land is 
enticing the oil giants Financial Times ; 23-Sep-1999 The 
current fashion in the oil industry is to focus on 
exploiting existing reserves in the long-established main 
producing countries of the Middle East and elsewhere. But ...

 FORESTS 

7) The Guardian (London) September 23, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Art Pages; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: The price of life; Life on earth 
is something you can protect by throwing money at it, 
writes Tim Radford. Why should we pay up? Because it's worth
it. BODY: Scientists at Cambridge today argue that it would 
cost a mere $ 320bn a year to protect the diversity of life ...

8) The Times (London) September 23, 1999 SECTION: Home news 
HEADLINE: Prince's wildlife 'pressure' BYLINE: Nick 
Nuttall, environment correspondent BODY: Pressure on the 
Prime Minister to support a wildlife Bill intensified 
yesterday when the Prince of Wales called for stronger 
safeguards to protect wildlife and countryside. ...

(GREENPEACE)
9) September 22, 1999 Demands for special prosecutor to probe 
attack on environmentalists VANCOUVER (CP) -- Supporters of 
eight environmentalists who say they were beaten by forest 
company workers want a special prosecutor to investigate 
the company's role in the attack. "The entire episode makes 
me angry and disgusted," Craig Jones, president of the B.C. ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

10) WSJ(9/23): DuPont's Chief Sings The Praises Of 
Biotechnology By Susan Warren Dow Jones Newswires BOSTON -- 
DuPont Co. Chief Executive Charles Holliday took the 
offensive in the controversy over genetically modified 
plants and foods, declaring, "we can do wondrous things" 
for mankind with biotechnology. DuPont, based in ...

11) Farm issues key to WTO talks, US official says By Doug 
Palmer WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - This autumn's world 
trade talks could founder if countries are unwilling to 
significantly reform their agricultural policies, U.S. 
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said on Wednesday. In 
remarks to the President's Export Council, Glickman said ...

12) Health ministers set to approve tough GM food policy BODY: 
GENETIC SYDNEY, Sept 23 AAP - Health ministers are set to 
approve a hardline labelling regime for genetically modified
food, even if they contain only minute traces of GM 
ingredients. All packaged GM food will have to be labelled 
and wholly modified foods will have to be identified in ...

13) The Guardian (London) September 23, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Home Pages; Pg. 6 HEADLINE: Commons caterers serve up GM 
embarrassment for Blair BYLINE: Nicholas Watt Political 
Correspondent BODY: Nicholas Watt Political Correspondent 
Tony Blair's efforts to encourage the development of 
genetically modified food suffered a setback yesterday with ...

(GREENPEACE)
14) Chemical News & Intelligence September 21, 1999 HEADLINE: 
Monsanto Brazil halts GM soy seed for now SOURCE: Chemical 
News & Intelligence BYLINE: Alastair Stewart DATELINE: SAO 
PAULO BODY: Monsanto Brazil (MTC) has given up hope of 
selling its genetically-modified (GM) Round Up Ready 
soybeans here for the 1999-2000 harvest, CNI learned ...

15) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE , More specialty U.S. soybeans on the 
way - USB SINGAPORE: September 23, 1999 SINGAPORE - A 
myriad of new soybean varieties is being developed by the 
U.S. seed industry to meet specific needs of customers, 
Criss Davis, farmer-director of the U.S. United Soybean 
Board (USB) said yesterday. ...

 MILITARY 

16) 09/23 Pakistan-Nuclear-Economy By KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD,  Pakistan
(AP) -- While South Asian rivals Pakistan and  India threaten to wage
a costly nuclear arms race, most of  the 1.3 billion people in the
region remain mired in  poverty, said a U.N.-sponsored report
released today. The  annual Development in South Asia report
criticized India ...

17) 09/23 Albright Urges Nuclear Test Ban By BARRY SCHWEID  NEW YORK (AP)
-- On the eve of the third anniversary of  President Clinton's
signing of a treaty to ban all nuclear  weapons tests, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright  appealed Thursday to the Senate to join the
45 nations that  have approved the pact. Speaking at the Association
of the ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

18) 09/23 DJ Peco-Unicom Merger Would Create Nuclear Power  Leader >PE By
Heesun Wee NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The proposed  merger of utility
companies Unicom Corp. (UCM) and Peco  Energy Co. (PE) sheds a
national spotlight on nuclear  power, the likes of which had yet to
be seen in the U.S.  energy market, according to industry watchers.
If the ...

19) The Independent (London) September 23, 1999 SECTION: NEWS; 
Pg. 9 HEADLINE: ANGER IN JAPAN OVER SELLAFIELD SHIPMENT 
BYLINE: Paul Lee And Steve Boggan BODY: ANGER WAS mounting 
in Japan yesterday over the arrival of mixed- oxide nuclear 
fuel from Britain, after revelations in The Independent 
over "fabrications" of safety records at Sellafield in ...

20) The Times (London) September 23, 1999 SECTION: Home news 
HEADLINE: Chernobyl fall-out scare BYLINE: Roger Boyes in 
Berlin BODY: Unusually high levels of radioactivity have 
been found in the wild game of Bavarian forests 13 years 
after the Chernobyl meltdown sent clouds of fall-out 
gusting across Europe. Wild boar caught by hunters have ...

21) Greens offer new deal on German nuclear shut BERLIN, Sept 
23 (Reuters) - Germany's ecologist Greens, junior partners  in
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government, have offered  industry a
new deal in an effort to agree on a timetable  for the closure of the
country's 19 nuclear plants. Juergen  Trittin -- the environment
minister and one of three Greens ...

 OCEANS 

22) U.S. offers help to Asians in shrimp-turtle row GENEVA, 
Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it 
had offered to help Asian countries in ensuring that their 
fishermen did not kill endangered sea turtles when catching 
shrimp. But so far only Pakistan and Thailand of four 
countries involved in a dispute with the United States at ...

(GREENPEACE)
23) Anchorage Daily News September 22, 1999, FINAL EDITION 
SECTION: BUSINESS, Pg. 2F HEADLINE: JUDGE REJECTS MOVE TO 
BLOCK POLLOCK FISHING BYLINE: Wesley Loy; Daily News 
Reporter BODY: A Seattle judge has denied a request by 
environmental groups to further curtail pollock fishing off 
Alaska to protect the endangered Steller sea lion. The ...

24) The Courier Mail, Online, Mining controls blocked by Parer 
By MARK LUDLOW 24sep99 FEDERAL Environment Minister Robert 
Hill's push to extend mining restrictions near the Great 
Barrier Reef last year was blocked by former resources 
minister Warwick Parer. Documents obtained under the 
Freedom of Information Act showed Senator Hill actively ...

 TOXICS 

25) Mound of 7 million tires ablaze WESTLEY, Calif., Sept. 23 
(UPI) -- A six-story high mountain of 7 million scrap tires 
is burning near California's main north-south freeway, 
sending a cloud of black smoke over a rural area south of 
the state capital and a haze over much of the San Francisco 
Bay Area. Local officials declared a state of emergency and ...

26) The Ottawa Citizen September 23, 1999 Final News A1 / FRONT
Lake toxins cause human infertility: Study finds 
`gender-bender' effects from doses once thought to be safe 
BY Tom Spears ``Gender-bender'' chemicals in the Great 
Lakes that mimic human hormones are derailing women's 
menstrual cycles and making couples infertile, a new ...

27) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Taiwanese firm wants to 
ship controversial waste to France DATELINE: PARIS, Sept 23 
BODY: A Taiwanese petrochemical giant which caused uproar 
after it tried to send mercury-tainted waste to Cambodia is 
now trying to send the controversial load to France for 
disposal, a government official said here Thursday. Formosa ...

28) Birmingham Post September 23, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 25 
HEADLINE: MPS GET CALL TO HEAD OFF NEW TAX ON PESTICIDES 
BODY: Landowners and farmers have called on MPs to help 
them fight off the threat of a new tax on pesticides which, 
they say, would be bad for farming and potentially bad for 
the environment. The Country Landowners' Association in ...

29) The Daily Yomiuri September 23, 1999, Thursday SECTION: 
Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Shops switch wrapping after consumer concern
BYLINE: Yomiuri BODY: An increasing number of retail 
grocery stores are choosing to use nonchloride wrapping 
material in a switch from vinyl chloride wrap--which is 
thought to emit dioxin when incinerated--apparently in ...

30) AUSTRIA TO CONTROL ECO-IMPACT OF MEDICINES VIENNA, 
Austria, September 22, 1999 (ENS) - The Austrian 
environment agency has called for a comprehensive 
evaluation of the environmental impact on water of human 
and veterinary medicines and animal feed additives. In a 
report published this week, the agency calls for action by ...

 X-OTHER-X 

31) The Guardian (London) September 23, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Leader Pages; Pg. 22 HEADLINE: Ploughing them into the mire;
Small farmers are destroyed to benefit big 
agro-industrialists BODY: Every autumn for the last three 
years, the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food has 
released some tens of millions of pounds of emergency ...

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