Global News Headlines 09/26

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Sunday, September 26, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) 09/25 Climate, Trade Among Island Concerns By NICOLE  WINFIELD UNITED
NATIONS (AP) -- Small islands are getting a  chance to highlight the
problems that threaten their very  existence with a two-day
conference this week that will  focus debate on climate change, toxic
waste and trade. The  conference Monday and Tuesday is intended to
review ...

2) The Ottawa Citizen September 25, 1999 Final News A6 
Environmentalists lobby Martin for `green taxes': Finance 
minister discusses budget ideas BY Andrew Duffy Canadian 
environmentalists want Finance Minister Paul Martin to 
impose ``green taxes'' on polluters and energy gluttons. 
Mr. Martin met with representatives from 10 environmental ...

3) FED: Australian greenhouse gases 3 per cent above Kyoto 
target BODY: CANBERRA, Sept 25 AAP - Australia's greenhouse 
gas emissions are getting worse and are exceeding 
international targets, a new report shows. The Australian 
Greenhouse Office (AGO) said emissions have increased by 11 
per cent this decade in all sectors other than land use - ...

4) New York Times Sept 26, 1999, Late Edition -Final SECTION: 
14LI; Page 20; Column 1; Long Island Weekly Desk HEADLINE:  Unnatural
Forces Preying on the Island's Future Geography  BYLINE: BRUCE
LAMBERT BODY: WHAT a difference 14,000 years  makes! Back when the
last ice age was ending, the ocean was  300 feet lower than it is
now. Long Island was not even an ...

 ENERGY 

5) ENERGY-MALAWI: SEEKING ALTERNATIVES TO DWINDLING ...
LILONGWE, (Sep. 23) IPS - Eugine Lazaro is never sure where 
she will find the next bundle of wood to cook for her 
family. As in many countries, gathering firewood in Malawi 
is a tedious, backbreaking exercise, which entails walking 
farther and farther from home as traditional forest ...

 FORESTS 

6) Vancouver Sun September 25, 1999 Final Business D1 / FRONT 
MacBlo-Weyerhaeuser deal losing some allure: MB shares have 
lost the premium the sale was expected to bring. U.S. 
investors are * ditching forest companies as lumber prices 
fall. BY Gordon Hamilton, Sun Forestry Reporter MacMillan 
Bloedel investors are questioning the deal that would turn ...

7) The San Francisco Chronicle SEPTEMBER 25, 1999, FINAL 
EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A21; BAY AREA REPORT HEADLINE: 
SAN FRANCISCO; Court Clears Way For Earth First Bombing 
Lawsuit BODY: Almost a decade after Judi Bari and another 
environmentalist were injured by a car bomb, a federal 
court removed the last roadblock to trying their suit ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

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8) 09/26 GM GIANT MONSANTO HOLDS TALKS WITH THE SOIL  ASSOCIATION By Tim
Moynihan and Padraic Flanagan, PA News  US biotech giant Monsanto is
in talks over the controversial issue of genetic modification, the
company confirmed today.  It was in discussions with organisations
such as the Soil  Association and hopes further dialogue will take
place, it ...

9) 09/26 UK Protesters Dressed As Cows Tell Blair: No GM  BOURNEMOUTH,
England (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters  opposed to genetically
modified foods marched to the annual  conference of Britain's ruling
Labor party Sunday dressed  as cows and chickens, with one message
for the government  -- "say no to GM."...

10) 09/26 U.S. Denies Any Plan For Biotech Food Labels By Doug  Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clinton administration  officials Friday
quickly shot down a suggestion the United  States will offer a
proposal in upcoming world trade talks  for labeling food products
made from genetically modified  crops. "That is absolutely not the
case," Peter Scher, ...

11) NATIONAL NEWS: Restaurants 'flout law on GM food 
labelling' BIOTECHNOLOGY CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION SURVEY 
FINDS MANY EATING ESTABLISHMENTS DO NOT KNOW IF THEY ARE 
USING ALTE: Financial Times ; 25-Sep-1999 Nearly a week 
after rules on the labelling of genetically modified 
ingredients came into force, many restaurants and caterers ...

 MILITARY 

12) 09/25 DJ Russian Apprehended In Ukraine With Radioactive  Material
KIEV (AP)--A resident of the restive Russian  region of Dagestan was
apprehended in the western Ukrainian  city of Uzhhorod with two
containers of radioactive  strontium, officials reported Saturday.
The man from  Dagestan, site of the recent fighting between Islamic ...

13) Destruction of former nuclear test site nears end ALMATY, 
Sept 25 (Reuters) - A controlled explosion on Saturday at 
the former Soviet nuclear test site of Semipalatinsk in 
Kazakhstan destroyed some of the last remaining underground 
infrastructure there, a Kazakh official said. "The 
explosion took place earlier today, and there were no ...

14) The Washington Post September 25, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: A; Pg. A11 HEADLINE: Weaknesses Found in Nuclear 
Safeguards; Energy Dept. Report Urges Improvement in U.S. 
Protection of Russian Stockpile BYLINE: Bradley Graham, 
Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: A five-year-old U.S. 
program to help safeguard nuclear bomb-making material in ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

15) EBRD to rule on financing Chernobyl power plant ...
KIEV, September 24 (Itar-Tass) - The European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development will take a decision on the 
financial support to the halt of the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in November. The matter was discussed at a meeting of 
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk and his Finnish ...

16) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 27, 1999 
HEADLINE: Environment minister says nuclear project needs 
revising SOURCE: Text of report in English by the Turkish 
news agency Anatolia Thessaloniki, 24th September: 
Environment Minister Fevzi Aytekin said on Friday [24th 
September] that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project ...

17) The New York Times September 26, 1999, Late Edition- Final 
SECTION: Section 14CN; Page 3; Column 1; Connecticut Weekly 
Desk HEADLINE: Buyers Showing Interest in Millstone Plants 
BYLINE: ROBERT A. HAMILTON BODY: FOR sale: used nuclear 
plant. Frequently could not be started. Numerous fines for 
safety violations, but should pass inspection. Serious ...

18) The Washington Post September 25, 1999, Final Edition 
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A15 HEADLINE: WHAT ON EARTH?; A 
WEEKLY LOOK AT TRENDS, PEOPLE AND EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD 
BODY: Nuclear Power's Surge Sags Nuclear power, once known 
as the energy source of the future, is no longer as popular 
as it was two decades ago. Total nuclear energy production ...

 TOXICS 

19) 09/26 Floyd-Hogs By EMERY P. DALESIO BEULAVILLE, N.C. (AP)  -- About
a dozen of Rabon Maready's neighbors and corporate  partners donned
rubber boots and waded into belly-deep  water to gather the rotting
corpses of hogs swept from  their pens by Hurricane Floyd's flooding.
Nearly all of the  1,000 pigs Maready kept at this backwoods site
drowned when ...

20) 09/24 DJ EPA Discloses Proposal To Limit Chemicals In  Great Lakes
MILWAUKEE (AP)--Areas in the Great Lakes where  chemicals, such as
mercury and PCBs, are dumped and diluted  with water, would be
prohibited under a proposal announced  Friday by the Environmental
Protection Agency. "We believe  that when we protect the environment
of the Great Lakes, we ...

21) 09/25 Fire Out Of Control At Toxic Georgia Landfill  THOMSON, Ga.
(Reuters) - An underground fire at a Georgia  landfill where
industrial waste and toxic materials were  dumped for nearly 50 years
burned out of control Friday,  environmental authorities said. The
120-acre site in  Thomson, Georgia, about 100 miles east of Atlanta,
consists ...

22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: China confronted by major 
challenges in next millennium BYLINE: Elisabeth Zingg 
DATELINE: BEIJING, Sept 26 BODY: Weighed down by 
overpopulation, pollution and reform of the welfare state, 
China's communist rulers are confronted by major challenges 
which threaten to undermine their traditional powerbase. ...

23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Beluga whale population up 
in Canada's St Lawrence DATELINE: QUEBEC CITY, Sept 24 BODY:
Beluga whales in the St Lawrence river, once driven to the 
brink of extinction by hunting and pollution, may be on the 
increase, according to a report released Friday. 
Information on the small, white whales gathered by the ...

24) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) September 25, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Record-high dioxin levels found in national survey
BYLINE: Yomiuri BODY: The Environment Agency has detected 
record-high amounts of dioxin pollution in some cities, 
although average levels of dioxin have fallen, according to 
its first comprehensive national survey on dioxin pollution ...

25) The Toronto Star September 25, 1999, Edition 1 SECTION: 
SPECIALS HEADLINE: WHAT WE HAVE IS ALL THERE IS BYLINE: 
Nicolaas van Rijn BODY: SCARCE RESOURCE: The United Nations 
says half a billion people across the globe lack adequate 
access to fresh water. A Johns Hopkins University report 
adds that it is important to act now to slow the growth in ...

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