Global News Headlines 09/24

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Friday, September 24, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

(GREENPEACE)
1) September 24, 1999, HEADLINE: FEATURE: Icebergs off 
Argentine coast beg question of global warming BYLINE: By 
Stefan Fuhr, dpa BODY: Buenos Aires (dpa) B10A a 
1,750-square kilometre iceberg has been rotating for nearly  six
weeks some 700 kilometres off the southern coast of  Argentina near
Tierra del Fuego. The huge mass of frozen ...

2) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 25, 1999, 
SECTION: Part 3 Asia-Pacific; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; FE/D3649/C 
HEADLINE: Rising sea levels threaten islands off 
Bougainville BODY: Text of report by Radio Australia on 
22nd September Papua New Guinea has been urged to resettle  hundreds
of inhabitants from atolls off Bougainville ...

3) The Christian Science Monitor September 24, 1999, SECTION: 
WORLD; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: 20,000 lightpost filters scrub 
Mexico City's dirty air BYLINE: Howard LaFranchi , Staff 
writer of The Christian Science Monitor HIGHLIGHT: World's 
most- polluted city is installing outdoor air filters to 
make BODY: The notion that technology should be able to ...

4) The Irish Times September 24, 1999 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 4 HEADLINE: ESB bill 'tariff' set to boost 
renewable energy Customers may pay extra for 'greener' 
generation of electricity BYLINE: By KEVIN O'SULLIVAN, BODY:
ESB customers from next year will have an opportunity to 
display their "green" credentials by agreeing to pay a small...

5) The Northern Echo September 24, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 6 
HEADLINE: COUNCIL DELAYS VOTE ON TURBINES BYLINE: Andy Lee 
BODY: RESIDENTS of a quiet village, who are furious about 
plans to build three wind turbines within walking distance 
of their homes, have won a stay of execution. The people of 
East Hedleyhope, near Cornsay, in Derwentside, are angry at ...

6) REUTERS Australia should not back Kyoto plan - Woodside CEO
AUSTRALIA: September 24, 1999 PERTH - John Akehurst, chief 
executive of the Australian oil and gas company, Woodside 
Petroleum Ltd, has made his strongest call yet for 
Australia to not ratify the Kyoto greenhouse gas protocol. 
Akehurst told a meeting of the Committee for the Economic ...

7) REUTERS UK's poor suffering more from pollution - study 
UK: September 24, 1999 LONDON - Environmental campaign 
group Friends of the Earth said poor communities suffered 
most from environmental pollution, saying the disparity 
with wealthy living conditions stunted efforts for a 
greener Britain. ...

 ENERGY 

8) The New York Times September 24, 1999, Late Edition -Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 16; Column 1; National Desk 
HEADLINE: Oil Company to Pay For Alaska Pollution DATELINE: 
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 23 BODY: A subsidiary of the 
British-American oil giant BP Amoco agreed today to pay $22 
million to settle charges that a contractor illegally ...

9) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Bomb may have caused 
pipeline blast in Nigeria: report DATELINE: LAGOS, Sept 24 
BODY: A bomb may have caused a blast which destroyed an oil 
pipeline in southeast Nigeria causing a major fire, an oil 
company official told Friday's Nigerian press. The blast 
occured in the early hours of Saturday at Ekpapamre, near ...

(GREENPEACE)
10) HEADLINE: QLD: Greenpeace uncover oil mining plans on reef 
BODY: GREENPEACE BRISBANE, Sept 24 AAP - Greenpeace claimed 
today it had obtained federal government documents showing 
a major oil company is determined to begin mining 
operations in the Great Barrier Reef. Southern Pacific 
Petroleum's (SPP) refusal to relinquish oil shale deposits ...

 FORESTS 

(GREENPEACE)
11) South China Morning Post September 24, 1999 SECTION: News; 
Pg. 18 HEADLINE: Activists lost in woods over native logging
BODY: Political activists in Vancouver have a number of 
trendy causes to support, from protecting the environment 
to supporting natives in treaty talks. But sometimes the 
choices are not so obvious. What happens, for example, when ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

12) 09/24 U.S. Plans Labels On Genetically Modified Foods By  Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies  have agreed to
develop a labeling plan for food products  made from genetically
modified crops, a key demand of the  biotech-wary European market, an
industry consultant said  Friday. Consultant Charles Benbrook said
the decision was ...

13) UK brewers say no GM maize in British beer LONDON, Sept 24 
(Reuters) - British brewers have done their utmost to make 
sure no genetically modified maize is used in beermaking, 
an industry spokesman said on Friday after a third big 
Japanese brewer said it was going GM-free . "As far as I'm 
aware no British brewer actually uses genetically modified ...

14) Anti-GM lobby to march on Labour dressed as cows LONDON, 
Sept 24 (Reuters) - Hundreds of protestors against 
genetically modified (GM) foods, dubbed "Frankenstein 
foods" by the media, will march on ruling Labour's party 
conference on Sunday dressed as chickens and cows. The 
procession of farm yard animals will take place on the eve ...

15) AP Worldstream September 24, 1999; HEADLINE: Head of 
French National Assembly critiques profit- driven farming 
DATELINE: PARIS BODY: French National Assembly President 
Laurent Fabius said Friday that his country's government 
should take a stand against profit-driven agriculture 
practices at November's World Trade Organization ...

16) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: TRADE: SEED COMPANIES HAULED 
INTO COURT BYLINE: By Mario Osava and Gumisai Mutume 
DATELINE: MEXICO CITY, Sep. 24 BODY: Activists from 30 
countries have taken action against the world's biggest 
life science companies by taking them to court over the 
question of genetically -modified food which, they say, ...

17) THE RUSSIAN BUSINESS MONITOR September 24, 1999, Friday 
SECTION: EX-OFFICIO HEADLINE: RUSSIAN SPECIALISTS OK EATING 
GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS SOURCE: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 
September 20, 1999 BODY: "There are no adverse health 
impacts from eating genetically modified plants," reported 
Victor Tutelyan, Director of the Food Institute and ...

18) REUTERS Australasian health group considers GM food labels 
September 24, 1999 SYDNEY - Australian and New Zealand 
health authorities said yesterday they were looking at 
issues such as stringent labelling laws on genetically 
modified foods and would present a report to the two 
governments by the end of October. ...

19) REUTERS Biotech industry says gene maize research flawed 
September 24, 1999 BRUSSELS - Europe's biotechnology 
industry said yesterday a recent study suggesting pollen 
from genetically modified (GM) maize killed caterpillars 
was flawed and had distorted the debate about gene crops. 
Europabio, a trade association which speaks for ...

 MILITARY 

20) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 25, 1999, 
SECTION: Part 3 Asia-Pacific; NIUE; FE/D3649/C LENGTH: 151 
words HEADLINE: President warns conference not to interfere 
in politics BODY: Text of report by Radio Australia on 22nd 
September The president of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse, 
has reportedly warned the current Nuclear -Free and ...

21) BusinessWorld September 24, 1999, Friday SECTION: Pg. 31 
LENGTH: 1242 words HEADLINE: WEEKENDER; US and Indonesia vs 
East Timor BYLINE: Leandro Natividad BODY: One of the most 
downplayed aspects in the East Timor, issue is the role of 
the United States in bringing about the present 
catastrophe. World media reports show an upset President ...

22) The Guardian (London) September 24, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Leader Pages; Pg. 23 HEADLINE: Small arms under fire; With 
500m weapons in circulation worldwide, disarmament is  imperative.
But the five biggest arms sellers make up the UN security council
BYLINE: Richard Norton-Taylor BODY:  Richard Norton-Taylor The vast
majority of people who have ...

23) The Guardian (London) September 24, 1999 SECTION: Guardian 
Foreign Pages; Pg. 18 HEADLINE: UN despairs of detente for 
Pakistan and India BYLINE: Ian Black in New York BODY: Ian 
Black in New York Hope of a rapprochement between India and 
Pakistan after their fighting over Kashmir has been blown 
away by furious verbal clashes between the nuclear -armed ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

24) Ukraine sees no New Year repeat of Chernobyl blast By 
Christina Ling KIEV, Sep 24 (Reuters) - Ukrainian officials 
said on Friday the former Soviet republic's nuclear power 
network had passed tests for the millennium bug and ruled 
out any New Year Day recurrence of a disaster akin to the 
1986 Chernobyl explosion. "You can write it in block ...

(GREENPEACE)
25) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 24, 1999, Friday 
SECTION: Part 3 Asia-Pacific; INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS; 
FE/D3648/D HEADLINE: North's radio condemns South's steps 
to purchase plutonium BODY: Text of commentary from 20th 
September edition of 'Nodong Sinmun' entitled: 
"Accelerating self-destruction" , broadcast by North Korean ...

 OCEANS 

26) Xinhua HEADLINE: pollution threatens marine fisheries in 
bay of bengal DATELINE: dhaka, september 24; ITEM NO: 
0924219 BODY: massive pollution in the bay of bengal is  threatening
the stock of marine fisheries, and the volume  of fishing in
bangladesh has declined alarmingly in the  last few years, the
official bss news agency reported ...

27) The London Free Press September 24, 1999, Final EDITION 
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A10, CANADA DIGEST HEADLINE: LAKES FISH 
THREAT TO FERTILITY BYLINE: FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES BODY: 
Chemicals in fish from the Great Lakes that mimic human 
hormones are derailing women's menstrual cycles and making 
couples infertile, a new Canada-U.S. report says. "The ...

28) Broadcast News Friday, September 24, 1999 Navy-Radioactive 
Slugs HALIFAX -- The navy says it will put its money where 
its mouth is when it comes to radioactive slugs in Nova 
Scotia waters. The navy is offering to pay for testing in a 
fishing ground containing six tonnes of the radioactive 
ammunition. The slugs were fired from ships during training....

 TOXICS 

29) The New York Times September 24, 1999, Late Edition -Final 
SECTION: Section B; Page 5; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk 
HEADLINE: Hunting Industrial Hazards Carried Off by Flood 
Waters BYLINE: By RONALD SMOTHERS DATELINE: MIDDLESEX 
BOROUGH, N.J., Sept. 23 BODY: Cleanup crews trawling for 
hazardous materials set adrift in the overflowing Raritan ...

(GREENPEACE)
30) HEADLINE: Greenpeace protests waste dumping on Lebanese 
coast BODY: BEIRUT, Sept 24 (AFP) - Greenpeace activists 
held a protest on the Beirut waterfront Friday against the 
establishment of waste dump sites in the Mediterranean, and 
plans to import a waste incinerator from the United States. 
About 20 of the enironmental protection group's members ...

31) TASS HEADLINE: Ecology of unique Khanka Lake deteriorating 
BYLINE: By Marina Shatilova DATELINE: VLADIVOSTOK, 
September 24 BODY: In expert opinion, the ecological 
situation around the unique Khanka Lake in the Maritime 
Territory of Russia is unfavourable. This lake lies on the 
border with China and is known for its very rare animal ...

32) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: 70 pc of dioxin in fish 
is highly toxic PCBs DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept. 24 Kyodo BODY: 
On average 70% of the dioxin detected in samples of fish and
other marine life is coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls 
(PCBs), among the most toxic PCBs, accoding to a government 
survey revealed Friday. The samples contained 30 picograms ...

(GREENPEACE)
33) Greenpeace protests waste dumping on Lebanese coast; = 
(PICTURE) = BEIRUT, Sept 24 (AFP) - Greenpeace activists 
held a protest on the Beirut waterfront Friday against the 
establishment of waste dump sites in the Mediterranean, and 
plans to import a waste incinerator from the United States. 
About 20 of the enironmental protection group's members ...

34) Contamination Spreads in North Carolina Floodwaters By 
Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Sep. 
24--WILMINGTON, N.C.--The Cape Fear River spat the foul  remains of
Hurricane Floyd into the Atlantic on Thursday.  Trails of foam
separated the light-green ocean water near  Bald Head Island from the
chocolate-brown flowing ...

35) SOAPY SOUP FROM SRI LANKA SPILL KILLS FISHERY By Ravi 
Prasad COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, September 23, 1999 (ENS) - The 
massive oil and fertilizer spill from last month's 
shipwreck off Sri Lanka's southern coast has triggered a 
grave ecological and humanitarian crisis. The impact of the 
original pollutants and those used in the cleanup could ...

 X-OTHER-X 

36) 09/24 WRAPUP-Indonesia says to hand over Timor soon (adds  details of
Dili sweep, Geneva talks) By Terry Friel DILI,  East Timor (Reuters)
- Indonesia will hand over control of  East Timor to a multinational
force soon but 4,500 troops  will remain for up to a month,
Indonesia's military  commander in the territory said Friday. The
announcement ...

37) ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 23, 1999 
INCREASING POPULATION, VANISHING WATER The Worldwatch 
Institute, a Washington, DC based nonprofit research 
organization that analyzes global environmental and 
development issues, says Earth's population is in danger of 
running out of water. As the United Nation's predicted Day ...

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