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Global News Headlines 09/28
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, September 28, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Scientists See Host of Ecological Threats from Greenhouse
Effect By Mark Jaffe, The Philadelphia Inquirer Sep.
28--CASTRIES, St. Lucia--When Tropical Storm Iris swept across the
Caribbean back in 1995 it severely rattled this island and destroyed
20 percent of the valuable banana crop. "When one banana tree goes
down, it takes those around it, ...
2) EPA plans new curbs on truck pollution By Patrick Connole
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Large trucks will face
tighter emissions and diesel fuel standards under new U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency rules to be announced next
month, clean air advocates said Monday. The agency is
expected to also close a loophole which now allows ...
3) The Independent (London) September 28, 1999 SECTION: NEWS;
Pg. 12 HEADLINE: WEATHER OF EXTREMES BRINGS MONSOON SPRINGS
AND ARID SUMMERS TO BRITAIN BYLINE: Charles Arthur BODY:
THE BRITISH climate is moving towards monsoon-like springs
and autumns, with hot dry summers - which will put
increasing strain on water supplies in England and Wales in ...
4) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Diesel pollution causes
9 pc of lung cancer deaths DATELINE: TSU, Japan, Sept. 28 Kyodo
BODY: Emissions from diesel-powered vehicles account for a little
over 9% of annual lung cancer deaths in Japan, just over 4,000
people, according to a report given at a scientific conference
Tuesday. The report was compiled ...
ENERGY
5) 09/28 DJ Shell Intl Studies Forming Alliances In South America By
George Orwel NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--As part of a plan to expand its
business in the Western Hemisphere, Shell International Ltd is
exploring joint ventures with oil, gas and chemical companies in
South America and the Caribbean, according to company officials and
an industry ...
6) Africa pipeline protester scales World Bank building BODY:
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (AFP) - A lone protester scaled the
World Bank headquarters here Monday in a demonstration
against an African oil pipeline the bank plans to help
finance. Harold Linde of San Francisco -- a member of the
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) -- used cables forming part ...
7) OIL GIANT BP AMOCO GUILTY OF ALASKA HAZWASTE DUMPING
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, September 27, 1999 (ENS) - BP
Exploration Inc.'s Alaska branch pleaded guilty Thursday to
the illegal disposal of hazardous waste on Alaska's North
Slope, and agreed to spend $22 million in civil and
criminal penalties. The company must establish an ...
8) Canada's largest windmill unveiled MATANE, Quebec, Sept 28
(Reuters) - An independent power consortium officially
unveiled on Tuesday a 100 megawatt windmill farm in eastern
Quebec. Hydro-Quebec, the provincial power utility, has
already agreed to buy electricity for 25 years from the
farm on the blustery north coast of the Gaspe Peninsula in ...
FORESTS
9) Maine wrestles with salmon protection SEARSPORT, Maine,
Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Maine is wrestling with how to protect
the last wild salmon in the eastern United States and
prevent the federal government from declaring the fish an
endangered species. The U.S. fisheries services are expected
to decide shortly whether to take such a step. Should the ...
10) 09/27 Brazilian government studies rainforest preservatio...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The Brazilian government is studying a
United States proposal which would allow it to swap part of its
foreign debt in exchange for investing in rainforest preservation
projects, environmental officials said Monday The Environment
Ministry's press ...
11) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: INDIA SEEKS FUNDS FOR US$ 30 BLN
FORESTATION PROJECT DATELINE: NEW DELHI, Sept 27 BODY:
India has asked international donor agencies to fund its
ambitious US$ 30 billion forestry program to be implemented
over the next 20 years. "We require 32 billion dollars for
this massive programme," the Minister for Environment and ...
12) THE SAIGON TIMES DAILY September 28, 1999 SECTION: News
HEADLINE: Vietnam- Strong measures needed for forest
protection BODY: (SGT-HCMC) Vietnam will have to take
strong action to prevent more forest destruction and, at
the same time, develop new forests, Deputy Prime Minister
Nguyen Cong Tan has said. He points out in an article in ...
13) The Vancouver Sun September 28, 1999, FINAL SECTION:
Special Section; E8 HEADLINE: One coast logger's cautious
cutting offers an alternative to clearcuts: Merve
Wilkinson's environmentally - sensitive logging show treats
the forest like a garden. BYLINE: Douglas Todd DATELINE:
LADYSMITH BODY: LADYSMITH -- Walking with bent back among ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
14) 09/28 DJ Japan Seeks Discussion On Modified Food Rules - Nikkei
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries plans to suggest that a comprehensive discussion on the
creation of international rules on genetically modified (GM) foods
be held at the next round of WTO negotiations in 2000, The Nihon
Keizai ...
15) Developed world agricultural heavyweights to meet By Doug
Palmer WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Agriculture
Secretary Dan Glickman will meet on Friday with farm
ministers from the European Union, Japan, Canada and
Australia in a session that will help prepare for the world
trade talks beginning in two months. With farm issues ...
16) BANGKOK POST September 28, 1999 SECTION: News HEADLINE:
Activists decry weak bio-safety controls BODY: Post
Reporters GM cotton detected in other farmland Environment
activists have accused the government of lax bio-safety
controls, resulting in the alleged spread of genetically
-modified cotton to the open environment. Witoon ...
(GREENPEACE)
17) The Globe and Mail, Online, 09/28/99, Protesters target
stores selling genetically engineered food, HEATHER
SCOFFIELD Antibiotechnology activists kicked off a campaign
against genetically modified foods yesterday, staging a
demonstration outside a Loblaws store in downtown Toronto.
Greenpeace and the Council of Canadians want Loblaws to ...
(GREENPEACE)
18) INTERVIEW-Brazil GM soy ban cultivates seed smuggling By
Robert S. Elliott BUENOS AIRES, Sept 28 (Reuters) -
Genetically-modified (GM) soybeans illegally sown in Brazil
are being smuggled from Argentina and the United States as
farmers crave their cost- cutting advantages, a leading
official said Tuesday. "In Brazil there are transgenetic ...
MILITARY
19) Russian general gives nuclear arsenal eight years MOSCOW,
Sept 28 (Reuters) - A senior Defence Ministry official said
on Tuesday Russia had at the most eight years to replace
its ageing nuclear arsenal before it becomes obsolete,
Interfax news agency reported. Colonel-General Anatoly
Sitnov was speaking to reporters as the State Duma, the ...
20) Ratification falls short in nuke test ban treaty UNITED
NATIONS, Sept 28 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan has officially called for a conference on the nuclear
test ban treaty, a requirement if the accord failed to go
into force three years after it was open to signature, the
United Nations said. The meeting, chaired by Japan, is to ...
21) U.S., Russia working on Y2K "hotline" glitches By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The United States and Russia
have found potential Year 2000 glitches in all but one of
seven Cold War-era "hotlines" and are rushing to correct
them, a top Pentagon official told Congress on Tuesday.
Assistant Secretary of Defense Edward Warner, together ...
NUCLEAR POWER
22) FOCUS-Austria rejects Slovak nuclear closure plan By Mark
Thompson VIENNA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The European Union
said on Tuesday Slovakia's plan to begin shutting unsafe
nuclear reactors in 2006 removed a major obstacle to its
ambition to join the EU but Austria rejected the timetable
and urged talks. Slovakia is pushing hard to be promoted to ...
23) Y2K bug may affect Russian reactors By ASHLEY BAKER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Aging Chernobyl-style Soviet
nuclear power reactors are 100 times more likely to
experience core meltdowns than American reactors, a
Department of Energy official is expected to tell a Senate
committee. While U.S. officials don't expect a nuclear ...
24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: German government puts off
making decision on dropping nuclear energy DATELINE:
BERLIN, Sept 28 BODY: The German government has pushed back
until at least the end of the year a decision on a
timetable for abandoning nuclear energy, one of the
centre-left administration's main promises when it came to ...
25) THE KOREA HERALD September 28, 1999 HEADLINE: Government
to introduce periodic safety reviews on nuclear plants
BYLINE: Hwang Jang-jin Staff reporter BODY: The government
will enhance safety regulations on local nuclear power
facilities by introducing a new periodic check system early
next year. The Ministry of Science and Technology said ...
26) 09/28 RADIATION LEAK INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED By Allan Smith, PA News
The Environment Agency was tonight investigating whether radioactive
material leaked into the Bristol Channel after a fault at a nuclear
power station. It said that the discharge followed a fault in the
filtration process at the Hinkley Point A station, near ...
OCEANS
27) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Caribbean islands say
theirs is the most endangered sea BYLINE: Robert Holloway
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27 BODY: Island leaders
asked the UN on Monday to support a resolution recognizing
the Caribbean as the most endangered sea, and designating
it a special area for sustainable development. The deputy ...
(GREENPEACE)
28) The Associated Press. September 27, 1999 HEADLINE: Report:
commercial fishing regulations not tough enough BYLINE: By
LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: BOSTON
BODY: A coalition of conservation groups criticized the
federal government Monday for not upholding laws designed
to replenish dwindling fish stocks. In a report, the Marine ...
TOXICS
29) INTERVIEW-India heading for ecological disaster By Sunil
Kataria NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - India's failure to
take effective measures to curb its runaway population
could lead to an ecological disaster, Environment and
Forests Minister Suresh Prabhu said. He told Reuters in an
interview there was an urgent need to generate awareness ...
30) EU urges wider monitoring of dioxin in animal feed
BRUSSELS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - European Food Safety
Commissioner David Byrne said on Monday Belgium's dioxin
crisis had highlighted the need to monitor levels of the
cancer-causing chemicals in animal feed across the European
Union. Byrne told a meeting of EU farm ministers a white ...
31) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 28, 1999 HEADLINE:
FEATURE: Cambodia awash in dangerous pesticides BYLINE: By
Kay Johnson, dpa DATELINE: Phnom Penh BODY: Like many
Cambodian farmers, 22-year-old cabbage grower Som Sochea
saw pesticides as "medicine" for his crops, keeping insects
from destroying his only means of income. But last year, ...
32) The Irish Times September 28, 1999 SECTION: CITY EDITION;
HOME NEWS; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: EU farm ministers urged to back
testing of beef, fish for dioxins BYLINE: By PATRICK SMYTH
DATELINE: BRUSSELS BODY: The Irish Commissioner for Food
Safety, Mr David Byrne, called yesterday on EU farm
ministers to back the systematic testing of beef and fish ...
33) Japan Economic Newswire September 28, 1999 HEADLINE: Gov't
aims to half landfill waste by FY 2010 DATELINE: TOKYO,
Sept. 28 Kyodo BODY: The government decided Tuesday it will
set up guidelines to reduce the amount of the nation's
landfill waste to half the fiscal 1996 level by fiscal 2010
and to cut incinerated waste by some 20% to curb dioxin ...
34) The New York Times September 28, 1999, Late Edition-Final
SECTION: F; Page 8; Column 1; Health & Fitness HEADLINE: A
Debate Over Safety Of Softeners For Plastic BYLINE: By
HOLCOMB B. NOBLE BODY: They are called phthalates, and
their job is to make plastic flexible so it can be used in
tubes for blood transfusions, intravenous feeding and other ...
X-OTHER-X
35) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: After financial crisis,
challenge is to fight poverty: Wolfensohn DATELINE:
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 BODY: World Bank President James
Wolfensohn on Tuesday warned that the international
community was falling behind in the fight against global
misery and called for a fresh campaign that puts "poverty ...
36) The New York Times September 28, 1999, Late Edition -
Final SECTION:A; Page 1; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk
HEADLINE: Outbreak of Virus in New York Much Broader Than
Suspected BYLINE: By JENNIFER STEINHAUER BODY: Health and
wildlife officials said yesterday that nearly twice as many
people in the New York region as had previously been ...
(GREENPEACE)
37) The Age, Online, 09/29/99, Going green a growing thing By
CLAIRE MILLER ENVIRONMENT REPORTER Australian
conservation groups are enjoying a revival, with most
reporting dramatic increases in membership. The Australian
Conservation Foundation has reached record membership
levels, while other groups are reporting a surge in support ...
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