Global News Headlines 01/16

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Sunday, January 16, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) 01/16 Study: No Mount St. Helens Repeat By WILLIAM McCALL PORTLAND,
Ore. (AP) -- The Cascade Range is pouring tons of  carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere, although another  volcanic eruption like Mount
St. Helens is unlikely  anytime soon, according to a new study. Large
amounts of  the greenhouse gas have been found in the cold springs
that ...

2) Japan reconsiders nuclear power stance TOKYO, Jan. 14 
(UPI) -- Three and half months after a leak of radioactive 
materials at a Japanese nuclear materials processing plant, 
an official from Japan's energy agency said Thursday that 
the government will promote the use of environmentally 
friendly fuel cells as an alternative to nuclear power. ...

3) 01/16 0848 Record pollution drives traffic from Milan  streets By
Jennifer Clark MILAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) -  Streets were empty of
traffic in Milan's historic city  centre on Sunday after record
levels of air pollution  forced the regional government to ban all
cars and  motorbikes for the first time in 25 years. Milan, Como and ...

4) GLOBAL WARMING "UNDOUBTEDLY REAL" BLUE RIBBON PANEL FINDS  
WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2000 (ENS) - The warming of the 
Earth's surface is "undoubtedly real," according to the 
findings of researchers studying the issue under the 
auspices of the National Academies of Sciences. Surface 
temperatures in the past two decades have risen at a rate ...

5) The Ottawa Citizen January 15, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
A4 HEADLINE: Global warming upsetting wildlife, in far 
North, Sierra Club warns BYLINE: Tom Spears BODY: Arctic 
ice is melting and the permafrost is no longer as perma, 
the Sierra Club of Canada says in a public service 
announcement that it will send to TV stations across the ...

 ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
6) BUSINESSWORLD (PHILIPPINES) January 20, 2000 SECTION: 
Business HEADLINE: Greenpeace launches campaign vs Negros 
coal power plant BODY: BACOLOD CITY - Environmentalist 
group Greenpeace International has launched a campaign to 
stop the coal-fired power project in Pulupandan in Negros 
Occidental. Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros, Greenpeace ...

7) The Toronto Star January 16, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: WAB 
HEADLINE: LET'S THINK BIG ON BALLARD FUEL CELL BODY: YOU 
HAVE to wonder whether we as Canadians are capable of 
launching a big national project, developing the vision, 
making the commitment and allocating the resources to see 
it through. The Americans did this when they decided to put ...

8) HEADLINE: Fed: Oil tanker master charged over Victorian oil
spill BODY: Oil (Carried Earlier) CANBERRA, Jan 15 AAP - 
The master of international oil tanker Sylvan Arrow has 
been charged in an investigation into an oil spill off the 
southern Victorian coastline last month. A joint operation 
by the Australian Federal Police and the Australian ...

9) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
January 15, 2000, Saturday SECTION: Opinion; Pg. 6 
HEADLINE: Adapting Energy Use for the Future BYLINE: By 
Jose Goldemberg; DATELINE: SAO PAULO BODY: The key physical 
ingredient of economic growth in the modern age has been 
energy. Without coal, oil, natural gas and other forms of ...

 FORESTS 

(GREENPEACE)
10) Times Colonist (Victoria) January 15, 2000 EDITION Final 
News PAGE A4 Boycotts spark test of forest certification  
VANCOUVER (CP) -- The B.C. government announced Friday it is
preparing to apply environmental certification programs to 
a large swath of Crown-managed forest. 
The decision comes as the government is faced with renewed ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
11) 01/15 ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: CONCERN OVER CONTRABAND OF ... RIO DE
JANEIRO, (Jan. 14) IPS - Farmers in southern Brazil  who participate
in or benefit from the smuggling of  genetically modified soya seeds
from Argentina are  actually acting against their own interests,
according to  environmentalists. Doubts as to whether Brazil is able
to ...

12) 01/15 Us Says Biosafety Pact Should Not Supersede Wto   By Doug
Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to craft an  international
Biosafety Protocol later this month in  Montreal should focus on
protecting biological diversity  without unduly restricting trade in
genetically modified  crops, U.S. and industry officials said. ...

13) Calgary Herald January 15, 2000 EDITION Final News PAGE B7 
Study disputes output of modified canola The Canadian Press 
Farmers won't necessarily get higher yields by growing 
costly genetically modified canola, a new Agriculture 
Canada study suggests. 
The two-year study indicated herbicide-tolerant canola ...

14) The Washington Post January 16, 2000, Final Edition 
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A02 HEADLINE: EPA Restricts 
Gene-Altered Corn in Response to Concerns; Farmers Must 
Plant Conventional 'Refuges' to Reduce Threat of Ecological 
Damage BYLINE: Rick Weiss, BODY: The Environmental 
Protection Agency has placed new restrictions on the ...

15) The Ottawa Citizen January 16, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
A3 HEADLINE: Altered corn no threat to monarch butterflies: 
Guelph research refutes study at Cornell BYLINE: Laura 
Landon BODY: Reports that genetically modified corn means 
the death of the monarch butterfly are alarmist and untrue, 
says a University of Guelph researcher. The corn poses ...

16) XINHUA HEADLINE: Ghana Checks Influx of Genetically 
Modified Food DATELINE: NAIROBI, January 14 BODY: Ghanaian 
Minister of Environment, Science and Technology Cletus 
Avoka Friday assured the nation that his ministry is doing 
everything possible to check the influx of genetically 
modified (GM) foods on the market. Avoka, who was answering ...

(GREENPEACE)
17) Newsday (New York, NY) January 16, 2000, ALL EDITIONS 
SECTION: NEWS; Page A46 HEADLINE: A FOOD FIGHT ON U.S. 
FARMS / SAFTEY, FUTURE OF GENETICALLY ALTERED FOOD AT 
ISSUE IN SUIT BYLINE: By Kathleen Kerr. BODY: A crusade 
against the alleged dangers of "Frankenstein foods"-the 
genetically altered farm products that spurred European ...

 MILITARY 

18) Obstacles remain to global nuclear disarmament, UN  
United Nations (United Nations, January 14, 2000) - The 
world has made progress in recent years in fulfilling some 
of the global nuclear disarmament agenda but the challenges 
ahead are still formidable, UN Under-Secretary-General for 
Disarmament Affairs, Jayantha Dhanapala, said Wednesday. ...

19) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) January 16, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 31 
HEADLINE: International: Alarm over North Korea's secret 
deal for Congo uranium BYLINE: by CHRISTINA LAMB BODY: 
NORTH Korea is believed to be obtaining uranium for its 
secret nuclear weapons programme in return for providing 
military training to the Congo. For several months North ...

20) TASS HEADLINE: US. pacifists protest against anti-missile 
defence project. BYLINE: By Yuri Kirilchenko DATELINE: NEW 
YORK JANUARY 15 BODY: The coalition of U.S. anti-military 
organisations is planning to stage on January 18 a protest 
at the Vandenberg airforce base in California, where one 
more test, needed to build up a limited anti-missile ...

(GREENPEACE)
21) The Evening Post (Wellington) January 14, 2000 SECTION: 
NEWS; NATIONAL; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Atoll cracks could cause 
tsunami - French admiral BODY: The commander of French 
forces in Polynesia says that cracks in Mururoa Atoll's 
coral reef could cause a tsunami. After French nuclear 
officials last year declared that no long-term damage had ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
22) The Ottawa Sun Saturday, January 15, 2000 EDITION Final 
News PAGE 6 NUKE WAR TAKES FLIGHT OVER ONTARIO; PLUTONIUM 
SECRETLY FLOWN TO CHALK RIVER BY SEAN DURKAN, PARLIAMENTARY 
BUREAU PLUTONIUM from U.S. nuclear warheads was secretly 
flown in to Ontario's Chalk River plant yesterday, avoiding 
threatened protests. ...

(GREENPEACE)
23) The New York Times January 15, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 8; Column 5; Foreign Desk 
HEADLINE: Panama Steps Up Security For Ship With Atomic 
Waste BYLINE: By ELIZABETH BECKER BODY: Bowing to renewed 
concerns about terrorist attacks, Panama authorities said 
today that they were beefing up security to protect a ...

(GREENPEACE)
24) The Evening Post (Wellington) January 14, 2000 SECTION: 
NEWS; NATIONAL; Pg. 2; BRIEF LENGTH: 138 words HEADLINE: 
Nuclear fuel shipment monitored BODY: Greenpeace was 
"jumping the gun" by suggesting a nuclear fuel shipment was 
about to be sent through the Tasman Sea from Japan, the 
Government said last night. Acting Foreign Affairs Minister ...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
25) New Zealand News from The Press - Friday, January 14, 
2000, Activists put lives on line by Rachel Walsh An  inflatable boat
with two Greenpeace activists aboard was  dragged half way up the
stern ramp of a whaling ship, as  the environmental group continued
its efforts to stop the  Japanese whaling. ...

(GREENPEACE)
26) New Zealand News from The Press - Saturday, January 15, 
2000, Japanese whalers vow to continue by Seth Robson   Condemnation
by the New Zealand Government has failed to  move Japanese whalers
who have vowed to continue  "scientific" whaling indefinitely.  Prime
Minister Helen Clark has asked the Foreign Affairs ...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

27) 01/16 African elephant poachers ignore ivory ban,  environ... LONDON
(AP) -- Elephant poaching continues to flourish in  Africa despite a
10-year-old international ban on the ivory  trade, Britain's
Environmental Investigation Agency said  Sunday. Between April and
December, 1999, EIA information ...

28) GOVERNMENT RETURNS VAST TRACT IN UTAH TO NATIVE AMERICANS  
FORT DUCHESNE, Utah, January 14, 2000 (ENS) - Energy 
Secretary Bill Richardson today announced an agreement for 
the largest voluntary return of land to Native Americans in 
the lower 48 states in more than a century. The Department 
of Energy also announced plans to clean up and remove 10.5 ...

 TOXICS 

29) 01/14 Dow Chemical Agrees to Pay Fine MIDLAND, Mich.  (AP) -- Dow
Chemical Co. has agreed to pay an $82,834 fine  and perform two
community service projects to resolve an  Environmental Protection
Agency complaint alleging four  chemical leaks, Dow and EPA officials
said Friday. The EPA  said Dow failed to notify emergency authorities
about four ...

30) The Washington Post January 16, 2000, Final Edition 
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. B06 HEADLINE: A Win for the 
Environment BODY: THE SUPREME Court gave a welcome lift to 
enforcement of environmental law last week in deciding the 
case of Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental 
Services. Over the past several years, the court has sought ...

31) The New York Times Final SECTION: Section A; Page 18; 
Column 1; National Desk HEADLINE: National News Briefs; 
Cruise Line Will Pay $3.5 Million to Alaska DATELINE: 
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 14 BODY: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines 
has agreed to pay Alaska $3.5
million for dumping toxic chemicals and oil-contaminated ...

32) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) January 15, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 3 
HEADLINE: Govt, industry not ready for anti-dioxin law BODY:
Local governments and waste disposal companies have 
expressed concern that they may be unable to fully comply 
with a new law, to be enacted Saturday, concerning the 
emission of dioxin and other harmful substances. Though the ...

(GREENPEACE)
33) Bangkog Post, January 16, 2000, Online, ENVIRONMENT  
Officials deny Greenpeace toxic charges Incinerators will 
not result in pollution Two senior officials have 
countered the Greenpeace anti-garbage incinerator campaign 
by maintaining that the disposal method did not produce 
highly toxic dioxin as alleged. ...

 X-OTHER-X 

34) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Attack on congress hall in 
Davos ahead of World Economic Forum DATELINE: DAVOS, 
Switzerland, Jan 16 BODY: Police said Sunday they suspected 
activists hostile to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) 
were behind an attack using fireworks on a congress centre 
in the Swiss resort of Davos in which the prestigious ...

35) AP January 15, 2000, HEADLINE: Environmentalists see Earth 
going bust as economy booms BYLINE: By PAULINE JELINEK, 
BODY: The rise of the Internet and soaring stock markets 
threaten to obscure "real-world" troubles such as crises in 
water supplies and other resources, an environmental group 
said Saturday. "Global economic trends during the 1990s ...

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