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Monday, January 17, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) The Washington Post January 17, 2000, Final Edition 
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. A22 HEADLINE: More Hot News BODY: 
THE LATEST data on global warming should thin the ranks of 
those who deny the evidence for climate change. The data 
were produced by an independent panel organized by the 
National Academy of Sciences and thus have the advantage of ...

2) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) January 17, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 
06 HEADLINE: Danger from traffic fumes 'is overstated'  BYLINE: By
Paul Marston, BODY: GOVERNMENT agencies have  seriously exaggerated
the health dangers posed by  increasing road traffic, according to an
unpublished study  conducted for the Department of Health. The report
suggests ...

3) HEADLINE: UK: London tops air league BODY: UK AIR LONDON, 
Jan 17 AAP - London has come out on top in a survey of the 
air quality in the world's biggest cities, it was reported 
here today. Commissioned by Britain's National Health 
Service, the study rated London as the least affected by 
six commonly agreed pollutants, out of all world ...

4) The Calgary Sun January 17, 2000, SECTION: 
EDITORIAL/OPINION, Pg. 14, HEADLINE: LOST IN THE FOREST 
BODY: Premier Ralph Klein has warned adhering to the Kyoto 
Agreement on global warming will "devastate" our province's 
economy and send ripples of recession all across the nation.
The federal Liberal government -- forgetting how the ...

5) The Guardian (London) January 17, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Home Pages; Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Worst fall ever in quality of 
UK's air BODY: Paul Brown and Keith Harper Air quality in 
the UK during 1999 showed the worst deterioration since 
modern records began, figures today reveal. The fall, 
revealed by Friends of the Earth, will come as an ...

6) The Independent (London) January 17, 2000, Monday SECTION: 
NEWS; Pg. 8 HEADLINE: ON A MURKY DAY IN CAIRO, YOU CAN 
HARDLY SEE THE TOPS OF THE PYRAMIDS BYLINE: Caroline Hawley 
BODY: IT IS more of a taste than a smell. Cairo's acrid 
pollution first hits the back of the throat: a choking mix 
of car fumes and industrial emissions that many Cairenes ...

7) THE KOREA HERALD January 17, 2000, HEADLINE: Air pollution 
in Seoul, other cities doubles since 1990 BYLINE: By Kim 
Ji-soo BODY: The yearly average ozone density in Seoul and 
six other major cities in the nation steadily increased 
over the past decade, the Environment Ministry said. The 
ministry disclosed yesterday the results of its study of ...

8) The Toronto Star January 17, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS 
HEADLINE: WEEK OF DECISION BODY: Our respiratory future - 
affecting everything from asthma to emergency rooms - will 
start to roll out this week. Half of our smog is homemade, 
half from across the border. Ontario Environment Minister 
Tony Clement and federal Environment Minister David ...

(GREENPEACE)
9) Cyprus Mail Online, January 15, 2000 'Rising temperatures 
make desalination an urgent priority' By Martin Hellicar  
AGRICULTURE Minister Costas Themistocleous yesterday 
unveiled statistics showing declining rainfall in a bid to 
press home his campaign for more desalination. 
He said that the Meteorological Service figures proved ...

10) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, US says farm products can reduce 
greenhouse gases USA: January 17, 2000 WASHINGTON - U.S. 
farm and forest industries could greatly reduce greenhouse 
gas emissions this decade by meeting Clinton administration 
goals to build a large bio-energy industry by the year 
2010, the Department of Energy (DOE) said. ...

 ENERGY 

11) XINHUA HEADLINE: Nigeria Warns Oil Firms on Environmental 
Degradation DATELINE: LAGOS, January 17 BODY: The Nigerian 
Federal government Sunday warned some of the oil and gas 
companies operating in the country's Niger delta region to 
abide by the environmental protection rules or face severe 
punishments. Attempts by the oil companies to absolve ...

12) Financial Times Online Monday January 17 2000 Royal 
Dutch/Shell close to healing Nigerian rift By Robert 
Corzine in London Royal Dutch/Shell appears to be on the 
verge of the first "significant breakthrough" in its 
estranged relations with the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria since 
the execution in 1995 of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
13) Montreal Gazette January 17, 2000 EDITION Final Editorial 
/ Op-Ed PAGE B3 Green man's burden: Too many Western 
environmentalists think they know what's best for all 
GREGORY CONKO Long before Kermit the Frog bemoaned that 
``it's not easy being green,'' poet Rudyard Kipling wrote 
about the burden of being white. Kipling, a great apologist ...

14) The Daily Press (Timmins) January 17, 2000 EDITION Final 
Science PAGE 16 U.S. farmers to cut back on genetically 
modified crops HOUSTON - U.S. farmers plan to cut back 
sharply on their plantings of genetically modified 
soybeans, corn and cotton, partly in response to a European 
backlash against bioengineered foods, an informal Reuters ...

15) The Irish Times January 17, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 5 HEADLINE: More malnutrition with genetic 
farming forecast BYLINE: By KEVIN O'SULLIVAN, BODY: The 
"gene revolution", just like the "green revolution", is 
concentrating ownership of the most productive land while 
structural causes of global poverty and hunger remain ...

 MILITARY 

16) BANGKOK POST January 17, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: 
ANALYSIS/MAKING THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE- India, Pakistan 
get ready to sign nuclear test ban BODY: There is a growing 
realisation on the sub-continent that banning nuclear 
testing will have greater long-term benefits than sticking 
to an 'independent' position of arming at all cost. Dinesh ...

(GREENPEACE)
17) The Press Online (New Zealand), 01/17/00, French pull-out 
may leave 'timebomb' by John Henzell and NZPA The French 
may be leaving an environmental timebomb behind when they 
finally abandon Mururoa and Fangataufla atolls. 
The French have announced that after 37 years, they will 
pull their military forces out of the area, including three ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
18) 01/16 Radioactive Cargo Nears Panama Canal PANAMA CITY,  Panama (AP)
-- Administrators of the Panama Canal, which  passed from U.S. to
Panamanian control last month, have  expressed assurances that a ship
carrying radioactive waste  will safely cross the 50-mile-long
waterway. The Pacific  Swan, carrying 44 tons of waste from a French
nuclear plant ...

(GREENPEACE)
19) The Irish Times January 15, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: UK accused of inaction on 
reducing radioactive discharges BYLINE: By KEVIN 
O'SULLIVAN, BODY: A British government report outlining how 
it intends to reduce UK radioactive discharges into the sea 
"lacks substance", it has been claimed. The environmental ...

(GREENPEACE)
20) THE GUARDIAN: TURKISH VILLAGERS MOBILISE AGAINST 
NUCLEAR PLANT PLAN, 15-Jan-2000 Chris Morris in Buyukeceli  
Who's going to want to buy these?", said Mehmet Bey as he 
reached out to pluck lemons from a row of trees heavy with 
the fruit. 'Once people know they come from the nuclear 
village, they'll look elsewhere."...

21) BBC Online, 16/01/00, Reactor accident under investigation 
A grab at Wylfa power station may have 'dropped' a fuel rod 
Managers of the Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey 
will attempt to restart one of the plant's two reactors on 
Tuesday morning after a weekend safety incident. 
Both the station's reactors were shut down on Sunday after ...

 OCEANS 

22) The Ottawa Citizen January 17, 2000 EDITION Final News 
PAGE A11 Farmed-fish genes pose no threat to wild Atlantic 
salmon Yves Bastien As federal Commissioner for 
Aquaculture Development, I am writing in an effort to add 
some perspective to the Jan. 9, 2000 front-page article 
headlined ``Wild salmon face battle for survival -- ...

(GREENPEACE)
23) The Washington Times January 17, 2000, Final Edition 
SECTION: PART A; WORLD; BRIEFING/GLOBAL ISSUES; Pg. A12 
HEADLINE: Greenpeace fights for whales; Raw meat valued as 
a traditional Japanese delicacy BYLINE: Toni Marshall; BODY:
Greenpeace activists say they are determined to stop, even 
at the risk of their lives, Japanese whalers from catching ...

(GREENPEACE)
24) The Press Online (New Zealand), 01/17/00, Whaling damages 
Japan Greenpeace is succeeding beyond expectations in its 
campaign against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. 
The aggressive tactics of the whalers - concentrating 
water cannons on the protesters, not slowing for activists 
in the water, dragging an inflatable up the stern ramp - ...

 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
25) TASS HEADLINE: First commodities marked No Chlorine appear 
in Russia. BYLINE: By Anna Varshavskaya DATELINE: MOSCOW, 
January 17 BODY: The first environmental marking introduced 
in Russia was presented at a press conference at the 
Russian Office of Greenpeace on Monday. The press 
conference was called in connection with the appearance on ...

26) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence January 17, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. B4 HEADLINE: Threat to life brings chemical 
reaction SOURCE: The Age ABSTRACT: A US scientist has 
warned about the 100 or so novel chemicals swirling around 
people's bloodstreams. Director of the W Alton Jones 
Foundation said this makes all people, including children ...

27) The Calgary Sun January 17, 2000, Final EDITION SECTION: 
NEWS, Pg. 4 HEADLINE: TOXIC TRAVEL FEARS BYLINE: NOVA 
PIERSON, BODY: More than 200 truckloads of U.S. toxic waste 
being treated in Alberta could soon be cutting a path 
through Calgary on the Deerfoot Tr. And environmentalists 
and a city alderman say they hope guidelines are enough to ...

28) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Bangladesh faces ecological 
catastrophe BANGLADESH: January 17, 2000 DHAKA - Poor, 
overpopulated and polluted Bangladesh must strike a balance 
between development and nature to avert a likely ecological 
catastrophe, speakers at an environment conference said. 
Air pollution, arsenic contamination of ground water, ...

29) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Group urge action against 
"environmental racism" USA: January 17, 2000 WASHINGTON - 
A coalition of environmental activists charged that 
communities where blacks and other minorities live suffer 
more from pollution and hazardous waste than do 
predominately white neighbourhoods. ...

 X-OTHER-X 

30) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence January 17, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 18 HEADLINE: Reasons for hearing green and 
seeing red SOURCE: The Australian Financial Review ABSTRACT:
The environmental movement has replaced socialism as the 
biggest threat to freedom in the West. In January 2000, it 
would appear that Greenies really want to impose careful ...

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