Global News Headlines 01/11

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Tuesday, January 11, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) The Irish Times January 11, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 5 HEADLINE: Scientist warns on climate change
BYLINE: By KEVIN O'SULLIVAN, Environmental and Food Science 
Correspondent BODY: The world should wake up to the reality 
that climate could change dramatically in the course of a 
lifetime, according to a leading expert who has spent ...

 ENERGY 

2) INDONESIA HAS VAST UNTAPPED GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ...
JAKARTA, Jan 11, 2000 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Indonesia 
has not fully exploited its large geothemal power potential 
of 20 GW or 40% of the world's total potentials, experts 
said. So far Indonesia had only been able to put 525 MW of 
its geothermal power potential into use. "With the ...

3) PHILIPPINES TO CUT DEPENDENCE ON OIL MANILA, Jan 10, 2000 
(AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- President Joseph Estrada has 
expressed confidence that the Philippines will 
substantially cut its dependence on imported oil when the 
country starts to tap alternative and cleaner sources of 
power and energy next year. The President said the ...

4) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Erika captain gave warning 
of corrosion on stricken tanker DATELINE: PARIS, Jan 11 
BODY: The Indian captain of the oil tanker Erika, which 
sank off the French coast a month ago sparking a major 
pollution crisis, told the ship's operators in November 
there were signs of corrosion in the hold, his lawyer said ...

5) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: International team battles 
to save oiled seabirds BYLINE: Eric Thomas DATELINE: THEIX, 
France, Jan 11 BODY: An international team is fighting to 
save some of the 200,000 seabirds hit by an oil slick from 
the Maltese-registered Erika tanker that broke in half 
south of the Brittany port of Brest on December 12. The ...

6) Deutsche Presse-Agentur January 11, 2000 HEADLINE: Author 
Arundhati Roy arrested for anti-dam protest in India 
DATELINE: New Delhi BODY: Internationally acclaimed author 
Arundhati Roy and scores of others was arrested Tuesday in 
a central Indian town for protesting against erecting a dam 
and power plant, reports said. The private Star News ...

7) The Christian Science Monitor January 11, 2000, SECTION: 
USA; AUTO TRENDS; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: First fleet of 'green' 
cars about to hit the road BYLINE: Eric C. Evarts, Staff 
writer of The Christian Science Monitor DATELINE: DETROIT 
HIGHLIGHT: Ford and GM unveil cars that get 80 miles per 
gallon - a milestone for BODY: At last, Detroit seems to ...

(GREENPEACE)
8) Journal of Commerce January 10, 2000, SECTION: MARITIME; 
Pg. 13 HEADLINE: Oil spill sullies image of industry 
BYLINE: BY PAUL BERRILL DATELINE: LONDON BODY: The oil 
spill that is 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. ...

 FORESTS 

9) The Gazette (Montreal) January 11, 2000, Tuesday, FINAL 
SECTION: News; A5 HEADLINE: Lubicon supporters picket 
Daishowa BODY: Daishowa Inc. faces another consumer boycott 
if it appeals a court decision allowing protesters to 
picket the paper company's customers, supporters of 
Alberta's Lubicon Cree said yesterday. About 40 protesters ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

10) 01/10 Montreal GMO Talks Likely To Be Difficult By Doug  Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.N.-sponsored talks in  Montreal later this
month aimed at regulating the flow of  genetically modified crops and
other organizms across  borders will be difficult, a U.S. Agriculture
Department  aide said Monday. After last month's spectacular failure
in ...

11) Financial Times Online January 11 2000 World News / Europe 
EU: New regulation on GM food labelling By Michael Smith in 
Brussels Food companies will have to provide labels on 
food if any ingredient contains 1 per cent or more of 
genetically modified (GM) soya or maize under a regulation 
approved on Monday by the European Commission. ...

12) New Straits Times (Malaysia) January 11, 2000 SECTION: 
National; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Consumer bodies take cue from 
Penang NGO on food security DATELINE: Penang BODY: PENANG, 
Mon. - Keep saying "No" to genetically -modified foods. 
This global call for food security initiated by the 
Penang-based non-governmental body Third World Network last ...

 MILITARY 

13) 01/11 GOVERNMENT TO STOP GUARANTEEING THIRD WORLD ARMS  LOANS By
Gavin Cordon, Whitehall Editor, PA News The  Government will no
longer underwrite loans to Third World  countries in order to enable
them to buy British arms,  Chancellor Gordon Brown will announce
tonight. He will say  that in future export credit guarantees will no
longer be ...

14) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: French army to quit Pacific 
atoll nuclear testing bases DATELINE: PAPEETE, Jan 11 BODY: 
A French army regiment is withdrawing after 37 years from 
two South Pacific atolls used for nuclear testing, with the 
future of the fragile areas remaining uncertain. The 
commander of the French forces in Polynesia, Admiral Jean ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

15) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Man tries to blow up site 
of Japan nuclear accident DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan 11 BODY: A 
Japanese man tried to blow up himself and a uranium 
processing plant where a massive radiation leak struck last 
year, police said Tuesday. But the 39-year-old man, who was 
arrested Tuesday, failed to get entry to the plant run by ...

16) Asahi News Service January 11, 2000, HEADLINE: TEPCO 
POSTPONES NEW NUKE FUEL PLAN DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: Tokyo 
Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has postponed the use of a new 
nuclear fuel at a plant in Fukushima Prefecture because of 
forged inspection documents on similar fuel by a British 
company and growing concerns about nuclear safety, ...

17) Asahi News Service January 11, 2000 HEADLINE: IT'S TIME 
FOR NATION TO TALK ABOUT SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL BODY: Asahi 
Shimbun said in an editorial: The pair of plans that 
comprise the plutonium -thermal project, in which plutonium 
fuel was to be used in ordinary nuclear reactors, are about 
to be postponed. The plans-one by Kansai Electric Power Co. ...

(GREENPEACE)
18) The Vancouver Sun January 11, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
A11 HEADLINE: Genetically modified foods feed unrest in the 
global village: A researcher for Greenpeace argues the 
public is right in distrusting the claims of agribusiness 
proponents who back GM foods to profit themselves, not the 
consumers. BYLINE: Miranda Holmes, Greenpeace BODY: Henry ...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
19) 01/11 NEW WHALING PROTEST AS JAPANESE MINISTER ARRIVES By  Amanda
Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News Greenpeace  today raised
the stakes in the row over whaling by Japan,  on the eve of talks in
London between the country's foreign  minister Yohei Kono and Foreign
Secretary Robin Cook. Mr  Kono is on a brief European tour and is set
to discuss ...

20) 01/11 BRUSSELS GETS TOUGH OVER SEA CLEAN-UP AT RESORTS By  Geoff
Meade, Europe Editor, PA News Britain could face  hefty fines for
failing to clean up the sea off Blackpool  and Southport beaches, the
European Commission warned today. The two north-west resorts were in
the firing line for the  second time as Brussels stepped up its
campaign to force ...

21) AP Worldstream January 11, 2000; HEADLINE: Fishermen to 
receive compensation payment for Angola oil spill DATELINE: 
LUANDA, Angola BODY: The Cabinda Gulf Oil Company is to pay 
compensation to some 160 fishermen for losses suffered as a 
result of an oil spill in northwestern Angola, the 
government said Tuesday. A statement issued jointly by the ...

22) QLD: Fisherman anger at Greens trawling ban BODY: Trawling 
BRISBANE, Jan 11 AAP - Up to 20,000 jobs would disappear if 
trawling was banned near the Great Barrier Reef, the 
commercial fishing industry said today. Queensland 
Commercial Fishermen's Organisation president Ted Loveday 
said conservationists calling for the ban were "beating up" ...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

23) 01/10 25 Species of Apes Said Endangered WASHINGTON (AP)  -- Not one
species of primates has been lost in the past  century, but now 25
species of apes, monkeys, lemurs and  other primates are imperiled
and may soon disappear,  experts warned Monday. "As we enter the new
millennium, we  risk losing our closest living relatives in the
animal ...

24) BBC Online Sci/Tech 10 January, 2000, Soil problems 
prompt farming ban call Soils in parts of Britain are too 
fragile for continued arable farming By Alex Kirby, News 
Online Environment Correspondent and presenter of Costing 
the Earth A prominent UK agricultural scientist says some 
soils are now too fragile to grow arable crops. ...

25) THE JAKARTA POST January 11, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: 
Grasshoppers swarm W. Kalimantan BODY: PONTIANAK, West 
Kalimantan (JP): Crop-eating grasshoppers (Locusta migrata) 
have swarmed much of the province, triggering fears of a 
food shortage there this year. Pak Bayer, 40, a farmer in 
Desa Tanjung, Jelai Hulu subdistrict, Ketapang regency, ...

 TOXICS 

26) 01/11 Toy makers urged to change softeners, HONGKONG  STANDARD TOY
manufacturers should switch to using citrate  esters as plastics
softeners because it is much safer, a  chemistry expert said
yesterday. Plasticisers are normally  used as a softening agent in
the production of plastic toys  and infants' products, such as
teethers and pacifiers. ...

27) WSJ(1/11): Cargill, Dow Chemical To Make `Natural Plastic' 
By Susan Warren Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 
Cargill Inc. and Dow Chemical Co. said they are ready to 
launch full-scale commercial production of a new kind of 
"natural plastic" made from plants, such as corn or wheat, 
instead of petroleum. The plans mark the companies' leap to ...

(GREENPEACE)
28) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Dangerous waste returns to 
Japan DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan 11 BODY: Thousands of tonnes of 
hazardous waste which had been illegally exported to the 
Philippines arrived back at a Tokyo port Tuesday, 
government officials said. Japan's government chartered a 
ship to retrieve the 122 containers of waste, because the ...

29) The Ottawa Citizen January 11, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
D12 HEADLINE: U.S. targets Great Lakes pollution hot spots: 
$80M in matching funds planned for 31 problem sites BYLINE: 
Katherine Rizzo DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: WASHINGTON -- 
The U.S. government plans to ask for $50 million in next 
year's budget to try and clean up the contaminated muck ...

30) The Toronto Star January 11, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS 
HEADLINE: SAFETY OF NEWFOUNDLAND'S WATER SUPPLY IN DOUBT 
BYLINE: Michael MacDonald BODY: Chemical found in high 
levels ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. - More than one third of 197 
public water supplies tested in Newfoundland since 1985 
contained high levels of potentially dangerous chemicals, ...

 X-OTHER-X 

31) BANGKOK POST January 11, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: Call 
for world body on the environment BODY: Somporn Thapanachai 
Organisation would work with the WTO An American academic 
has called for the establishment of a World Environment 
Organisation (WEO) to specifically deal with global 
upgrading of environmental standards. However, Thai ...

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