Global News Headlines 01/10

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Monday, January 10, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) Hopes dashed for early EU aviation CO2 deal ENDS Daily - 
07/01/00 The European air transport industry has poured  cold water
on hopes of an early voluntary agreement with  the EU on reducing
aircraft carbon dioxide emissions. Firms  say it will be more than a
decade before the sector can  exceed annual 1.1% reductions, an
ambition level already ...

2) Outrage over Spanish renewables support cut ENDS Daily - 
07/01/00 Renewable energy producers and environmental NGOs  have
reacted angrily to a decision by Spain's council of  ministers
announced on 31 December to cut subsidies for  electricity produced
from renewable sources.  The cuts of 5.4-8% will affect all types of
renewable ...

(GREENPEACE)
3) The Toronto Sun January 8, 2000 EDITION Final News PAGE 36 
BAD NEWS FOR BEARS; GROWING THREAT TO SURVIVAL OF CANADA'S 
GREAT WHITES CLOUDS ANNUAL TOURIST GATHERING BY JONATHAN 
HAYWARD, SUN MEDIA In Canada's north, where the Churchill 
River meets Hudson Bay, wanders one of the world's most 
feared animals on earth, the polar bear. ...

4) Calgary Herald January 10, 2000 EDITION Final Letters PAGE 
A11 Global warming: No scientific objectivity Robert H. 
Erickson, I must take issue with Catherine Ford's recent 
column in the Calgary Herald on global warming. 
The global warming issue was grabbed by those with a 
political agenda in the United Nations and some of our ...

5) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence January 10, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. A10 HEADLINE: Whether the weather be good 
SOURCE: The Age ABSTRACT: In January 2000, comments on 
changes in Australia's weather are far removed from 
nostalgic recollections of longer summers. Figures indicate 
that, since the 1940s, the country has been becoming warmer ...

6) The Irish Times January 10, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Sargent warning on global warming
BYLINE: By TIM O'BRIEN BODY: Will we soon see Gerald 
Fleming, Evelyn Cusack and other restored weather 
forecasters report on the weather patterns in Venezuela and 
eastern Europe? Green Party TD Mr Trevor Sargent has called ...

7) The Mirror January 10, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 21 
HEADLINE: FEAR OF TIDAL WAVE HORROR; BOFFIN WARNS OF 
DEVASTATION BYLINE: George Mair BODY: SCIENTISTS fear that 
global warming is making Scotland vulnerable to a repeat of 
a 15-metre tidal wave which devastated the country during 
the Stone Age. Professor David Smith will tell a conference ...

8) The Ottawa Citizen January 10, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
C14 HEADLINE: Warm '90s a sign of weather to come: Hot days 
and low water levels were felt across the country BYLINE: 
Tom Spears BODY: More near-record heat kept Canada's 
climate simmering through 1999, and has given us disturbing 
glimpses of what a permanently warmed climate may look ...

9) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE , France readies tax to fight global 
warming - paper FRANCE: January 10, 2000 PARIS - France 
will unveil an ecological tax this month in a drive to 
reduce greenhouse gases and combat global warming, Le 
Journal du Dimanche reported. 
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's legislative package, to be ...

 ENERGY 

10) The Independent (London) January 10, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; 
Pg. 5 HEADLINE: THEY ARRIVED IN CRATES, SOAKED IN OIL. NOW 
THE GRUESOME WORK BEGINS BYLINE: Terri Judd BODY: EVERY FEW 
hours Paul Kennedy painstakingly rehydrates, feeds and 
nurtures the injured birds in his care, knowing full well 
that they are almost certain to die despite his efforts. He ...

(GREENPEACE)
11) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, ANALYSIS - French spill shows up 
oil's weak spot UK: January 10, 2000 LONDON - The oil 
spill polluting French beaches should be a wake-up call to 
oil companies to sharpen environmental practices and repair 
an arrogant and insensitive image, analysts say. 
The loss of the 25-year-old tanker Erika which broke in ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

12) 01/10 U.S. Unlikely to Require Labels on Biotech Foods   WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - The federal government is not likely  to require U.S.
manufacturers and grocery stores to put  labels on genetically
modified food, U.S. Agriculture  Secretary Dan Glickman said on
Monday. "I, at this stage,  do not see any of what I call mandatory
or regulatory ...

(GREENPEACE)
13) The Ottawa Citizen January 10, 2000 EDITION Final News 
PAGE A1 / FRONT Canada in no rush to label GM products: 
Position dramatically different in Europe, where it's the 
law Last of a series Pauline Tam LONDON, England - 
Squeezed between a row of hungry diners seated at 
cafeteria-style tables, Steve Irvine hunches over his ...

14) The London Free Press January 10, 2000 EDITION Final News 
PAGE A4 MONARCH BUTTERFLIES DEEMED SAFE DESPITE FEARS ABOUT 
GENETIC CORN BY JOHN MINER, The monarch butterfly, an 
annual visitor to Southwestern Ontario, isn't about to be 
wiped out as earlier feared by genetically engineered corn 
grown, new research shows. ...

15) The Ottawa Citizen January 10, 2000 EDITION Final News 
PAGE A4 `We are the experiment': David Suzuki approves of 
GM foods in principle, but opposes the rush to get them on 
shelves Tom Spears In 1961, David Suzuki was a hotshot 
young geneticist with a shiny new PhD from the University 
of Chicago, ready to take on the toughest problems DNA ...

16) The Ottawa Citizen January 10, 2000 EDITION Final News 
PAGE A4 Europeans try to earn public's trust: Labels 
promote the message that genetically altered ingredients 
are safe to eat. The labels are also designed to get young 
consumers used to seeing them. Pauline Tam MUNICH - In the 
bustling convention hall, packets of cookies, individually ...

17) South China Morning Post January 10, 2000 SECTION: News; 
Pg. 5 HEADLINE: GM-free certificates offered BYLINE: ALEX LO
BODY: Food companies are being offered the chance to have 
their products certified free of genetically modified (GM) 
ingredients. The move comes after the new food safety chief 
rejected compulsory labelling. In a global backlash against ...

(GREENPEACE)
18) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Greenpeace still concerned over GM 
corn in feed NETHERLANDS: January 10, 2000 AMSTERDAM - 
Environmental group Greenpeace said it is worried that corn 
gluten in feed probably still contains genetically modified 
(GM) material not approved by the European Union, despite 
assurances from U.S. producers. ...

(GREENPEACE)
19) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, INTERVIEW - UK faces risk of GM 
contamination UK: January 10, 2000 OXFORD - British 
trials of genetically modified crops are almost guaranteed 
to contaminate other crops, the Executive Director of 
Greenpeace UK warned. 
"There is no real chance that we might keep GM ...

 MILITARY 

20) The Washington Post January 10, 2000, Final Edition 
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A14 HEADLINE: No Home on Panama's 
Range; U.S. Left Munitions Scattered Over Canal Training 
Zones BYLINE: Serge F. Kovaleski, BODY: In handing over the 
Panama Canal, the United States also bestowed on the 
Panamanian government something far less ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

21) Environmental activists to be charged with trespassing  
JAN 10, 2000, M2 Communications - It has been decided that 
26 activists who managed to climb the roof of reactor  number one at
the nuclear power plant in Barseback,  southern Sweden in March last
year are to be charged with  trespassing. Three of the activists are
from Sweden while ...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
22) 01/10 PROTESTERS BLOCK JAPAN'S ILLEGAL WHALE HUNT By  Sherna Noah, PA
News Greenpeace protesters erected an  eight-metre wall of water to
stop a Japanese vessel  shooting whales swimming inside an Antarctica
sanctuary, it  was disclosed today. Activists on an inflatable boat 
sprayed water in front of the Japanese catcher vessel ...

23) HEADLINE: International ocean research project to start 
this year DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo BODY: Japan, the 
United States, Australia and the European Union will 
jointly launch a four-year project this year to measure the 
currents, temperature and salinity of the upper 2,000 
meters of the ocean, Japanese government officials said. ...

(GREENPEACE)
24) The Independent (London) January 9, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; 
Pg. 8 HEADLINE: POISON SAVES HUNTED WHALES BYLINE: Geoffrey 
Lean BODY: THE WHALE may finally be saved from hunters - 
through being poisoned. Contamination from the pollution of 
the world's seas appears to be succeeding where 
environmentalists had failed. The people of Japan, the ...

25) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Ireland says sea safe despite UK 
nuclear dumping REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: January 10, 2000  
DUBLIN - An Irish government report into the dumping by 
Britain of radioactive material in the Irish Sea concluded 
that the risk to human and marine life was extremely low 
and did not constitute a health hazard. ...

 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
26) APwo 01/10 1119 Dioxin test on breast milk urged, 
HONGKONG STANDARD THE government is being urged to conduct 
tests on breast milk to assess for possible contamination 
of dioxin-a cancer-causing agent. Speaking at a meeting of 
the Legislative Council's environmental affairs and health 
services panel yesterday, chemistry professor Dr Paul ...

27) 01/10 TOXIC WASTE THREATENS WORLD WATER SUPPLIES By  Amanda Brown,PA
News Raw sewage and toxic waste pouring  into river systems could
threaten world water supplies  during the next millennium, a leading
environmental expert  warned today. Professor Laurence Mee of the
Plymouth  Environmental Research Centre (PERC), based at the ...

28) Prince George Citizen Monday, January 10, 2000 EDITION 
Final Canada PAGE 7 Chemicals lace Nfld. water supply ST. 
JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- The Newfoundland government is 
bracing for a flood of tough questions today after it 
identifies dozens of communities which had high levels of 
potentially dangerous trihalomethanes, known as THMs, in ...

29) HEADLINE: Controversial garbage shipment arrives back in 
Japan DATELINE: UTSUNOMIYA, Japan, Jan. 10 Kyodo BODY: An 
allegedly illegal shipment of Japanese garbage exported to 
the Philippines by industrial waste company Nisso Ltd. 
arrived at Tokyo port Monday. The Japanese government had 
the shipment transported back via the MV Pulsar, a ...

 X-OTHER-X 

30) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: India urges developing 
countries to close ranks against WTO DATELINE: NEW DELHI, 
Jan 10 BODY: Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Murasoli 
Maran on Monday urged developing countries to close ranks 
against the World Trade Organiation's attempts to erode 
their competitiveness with the "threat of sanctions". Maran ...

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