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Global News Headlines 01/25
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, January 25, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
(GREENPEACE)
1) 01/25 FEATURE-Milan: capital of style, money ... and muck By Claudia
Parsons MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - Milan may rank alongside Paris and
New York as a haunt of the rich and chic, but Italy's style and
finance capital is struggling to shed a more dubious reputation as
one of its most polluted cities. Milan has long been Italy's
economic ...
2) Globe & Mail (Canada) Online Martin scales back
global-warming budget Plan for initial spending of
$500-million falls far short of ministers' request ANNE
McILROY Parliamentary Bureau Chief Tuesday, January 25, 2000
Ottawa -- Finance Minister Paul Martin is planning to
announce at least $500-million in the coming budget for ...
ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
3) Brazil's oil giant races to contain huge Rio slick By
Jeremy Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's
state petroleum giant, facing mounting criticism over a
huge spill in Rio's scenic bay, has hired teams of foreign
experts and imported extra equipment to stop oil coating
the city's famed beaches. Petrobras said Monday it had ...
4) Irish wind power firm says to undercut ESB price DUBLIN,
Jan 25 (Reuters) - A new Irish power joint venture was
launched on Tuesday offering wind-generated electricity to
Ireland's small and medium enterprise companies.
Eirtricity, owned by National Toll Roads and Future Wind
Holdings Ltd, said customers would be able to make savings ...
(GREENPEACE)
5) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Petrobras fine minuscule
compared to environmental damage: official DATELINE: RIO DE
JANEIRO, Jan 24 BODY: A Brazilian governor on Monday
blasted the size of the fine Petrobras faces for an oil
spill in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay nearly one week
ago, saying it did not compare to the amount of ecological ...
(GREENPEACE)
6) AP Worldstream January 24, 2000 DATELINE: RIO DE JANEIRO,
Brazil BODY: Environmental protesters chained shut the
doors of Brazilian government-owned petroleum company
Petrobras on Monday, as a massive oil spill near Rio de
Janeiro spread through mangrove swamps and moved closer to
the open sea. Security guards cut the chains, and the ...
FORESTS
7) FOCUS-UK waste strategy a flop - group By John O'Callaghan
LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Environmentalists said on Monday
that Britain will have to set up dozens of new waste
incinerators to compensate for a failed recycling strategy.
"The government has failed to plan for enough recycling of
waste. The result is that new incinerators will be needed ...
8) LOGS DRAGGED THROUGH LOOPHOLE IN BOLIVIAN FOREST LAW By
Mike Ceaser LA PAZ, Bolivia, January 24, 2000 (ENS) -
Three years ago Bolivia passed a new forestry law,
supported by environmentalists, intended to ensure that all
logging was done sustainably. But some environmentalists
fear a "one-time" exception approved by the Supreme Court ...
9) WA: Two arrested in forest protest BODY: Karri (Carried
Earlier) PERTH, Jan 25 AAP - Two environmental activists
who chained themselves to logging machinery in an effort to
prevent the woodchipping of a karri forest in a south-west
West Australian national park were arrested overnight.
Senior Constable Wayne Suttie of Pemberton police said ...
10) THE JAKARTA POST January 25, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE:
Illegal poachers threaten Ujung Kulon national park BODY:
UJUNG KULON, West Java (JP): The Ujung Kulon National Park,
Java's main sanctuary for biodiversity and endangered
species, is bearing the brunt of a severe lack of security.
An estimated 80 percent of the coral reefs in Ujung Kulon ...
11) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
January 25, 2000, SECTION: Opinion; Pg. 6 HEADLINE:
Indonesia's Forests Are Vanishing Faster Than Ever BYLINE:
Thomas Walton and Derek Holmes; International Herald
Tribune DATELINE: JAKARTA BODY: Indonesia's forests are
disappearing even faster than studies a few years ago ...
12) 01/25 More work needed for healthy U.S. forests-USFS chief SAN
FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief of the U.S. Forest Service said
Tuesday the nation must be willing to lose money in order to
preserve the health of America's 192 million acres of national
forests and grasslands. "We need a policy that pays greater
attention to what we leave on ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
13) 01/25 Protesters Target Canada House In London LONDON (Reuters) - A
group of environmental protesters said Monday they were targetting
the London embassies of the Miami group of countries which export
genetically modified products. "The protest focuses on the Miami
Group of GMO exporting countries (the US, Canada, Australia, Chile, ...
14) 01/24 Activists Seek Hldr Votes On Genetically Modified Food By
Phyllis Plitch NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The debate over genetically
modified organisms could surface at annual meetings across the
nation this spring, as investor activists take up the controversial
cause. That is, if any of the shareholder proposals sent to a
cross-section of U.S....
15) Financial Times Online January 25 2000 Comment / Leaders
Genetic seeds of discord Growing worldwide controversy
about the use of biotechnology, particularly in
agricultural production, is creating an urgent need to
develop globally agreed policies on the issue. Regrettably,
this week's UN-sponsored negotiations on a biosafety ...
16) Financial Times ; 25-Jan-2000 WORLD NEWS: TRADE: Accord on
GMO protocol 'vital' BIODIVERSITY CHAIRMAN OF MONTREAL
TALKS DELIVERS WARNING: Countries must set aside their
differences and conclude a new protocol to regulate trade
in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or risk serious
damage to international efforts to protect biodiversity, ...
(GREENPEACE)
17) Group wants gene-altered food labeled OTTAWA, Jan. 25
(UPI) -- Hundreds of demonstrators marched On Parliament
Hill Tuesday demanding that the Canadian government
introduce labeling for genetically altered food. The
demonstration was one of several held by environmental
groups as a U.N.-sponsored conference on trade in ...
18) 01/25 2117 Progress Reported in Biosafety Deal By MATT CRENSON
Associated Press Writer MONTREAL (AP) -- Negotiators made progress
Tuesday toward resolving some of the issues that have blocked a
treaty on international traffic in genetically modified organisms,
delegates to a U.N. conference said in Montreal. "The sun may just
be ...
19) Mowlam tells UK biotech firms to defend products LONDON,
Jan 25 (Reuters) - Britain's biotechnology industry must
step up the public relations battle on the safety and
potential benefits of products like genetically modified
foods, Cabinet Office Minister Mo Mowlam said on Tuesday.
After facing nightmare publicity last year condemning GM ...
(GREENPEACE)
20) CANOE , Online, January 25, 2000 Natural health group
brings petition to Ottawa calling for labelling of
genetically modified food OTTAWA (CP) -- Natural
health-food retailers want the federal government to force
companies to label genetically modified food. The Canadian
Health Food Association, a trade organization, collected ...
NUCLEAR POWER
21) AP Worldstream January 25, 2000 HEADLINE: French nuclear
reactor starts up following shutdown during fierce storm
DATELINE: PARIS BODY: France's Nuclear Safety Authority on
Tuesday said that a nuclear reactor that had been shut down
after being flooded during fierce storms last month could
be restarted. The Nuclear Safety Authority said that ...
22) Financial Times ; 25-Jan-2000 NATIONAL NEWS: Sellafield
seeks to reheat ties with Japan: A planned sell-off and
opening of a new plant pivot on repairing relations after a
quality control disaster. Matthew Jones reports The Lake
District can be a dark and brooding place at this time of
year. But the cloud hanging over Sellafield, British ...
OCEANS
(GREENPEACE)
23) N.Z. prime minister hits back at Japan in whaling row
SYDNEY, Jan. 25 (Kyodo) -- By: Jackie Woods New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark urged Japan on Tuesday to get
its whaling facts right in the latest episode of what
appears to be becoming a high-level diplomatic row between
the two countries. "I would advise (the Japanese ...
24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Some bird species face
extinction after French tanker disaster: expert DATELINE:
PARIS, Jan 25 BODY: Some rare seabird species may face
extinction after a tanker foundered off the French Atlantic
coast last month, disgorging thousands of tonnes of oil,
the environment ministry said Tuesday. In a newsletter to ...
(GREENPEACE)
25) Aberdeen Press and Journal January 24, 2000 SECTION:
Business:Utilities:Oil, Pg.13 HEADLINE: Oil companies gear
up for Atlantic campaign New drill sector jobs may be in
pipeline BYLINE: By BODY: OIL companies appear to be
quietly taking the wraps off their next Atlantic Frontier
campaign that could see six operators starting at least six ...
(GREENPEACE)
26) GREENPEACE ALLEGES 'PIRATE FISHING' BY SPANISH SHIP Buenos
Aires, Jan 25, 2000 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Greenpeace
environment protection group complained Tuesday that the
Spanish fishing vessel "Coalsa Segundo" had evaded
satellite control by covering its antenna with a can.
Greenpeace, which has photos "to prove the crime," called ...
(GREENPEACE)
27) Activists intensify whaling protest Yomiuri Shimbun,
Online, 01/26/00 The Greenpeace environmentalist
organization used radical measures to escalate its protests
against Japan's scientific research whaling in the
Antarctic Ocean, Japanese whaling sources said Tuesday.
The 13th research whaling fleet, which consists of the ...
OZONE
28) The Hindustan Times Online India blamed for release of
ozone-killing substance Sweden, January 24 THE FAILURE of
China and India in phasing out dangerous chemicals
threatens the progress made in healing the earth's
protective ozone layer, according to the man who discovered
the ozone hole over Antarctica. ...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
29) The Canberra Times January 25, 2000, Tuesday Edition
SECTION: Part A; Page 7 HEADLINE: 'DISASTROUS' SEASON FOR
PENGUINS MOST CHICKS STARVED IN THEIR NESTS AT THE COLONY
ON MONTAGUE ISLAND; PB PICTURE: NICK KLOMP BYLINE: LAURELLE
PACEY BODY: MONTAGUE ISLAND'S Little Penguins have had a
second disastrous breeding season. Most chicks starved in ...
30) USA TODAY January 25, 2000, FIRST EDITION SECTION: LIFE;
Pg. 9D HEADLINE: Defusing the carbon dioxide threat
Maneuvers on land, sea could cool global trend BYLINE: Dan
Vergano BODY: Imagine a continent made out of Styrofoam,
about the size of North America, floating in the South
Pacific. Covering about 10% of Earth's surface, something ...
TOXICS
31) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Shanghai faces drinking
water shortage as pollution worsens DATELINE: SHANGHAI, Jan
25 BODY: Despite being surrounded by rivers, Shanghai faces a
shortage of drinking water due to worsening pollution and growing
demand, the Shanghai Star reported Tuesday. "Water is abundant, but
drinking water sources are decreasing ...
32) Asahi News Service January 25, 2000, SECTION:
International news HEADLINE: MAKERS TO ABANDON HARMFUL
SUBSTANCE DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: All nine major
manufacturers of vinyl chloride wrapping film will stop
using a chemical compound in the product because it poses a
risk to reproductive organs, sources said on Jan. 24. The ...
33) THE HINDU January 25, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: India-
Industries banned from letting effluents into Yamuna BODY:
NEW DELHI, JAN. 24. The Supreme Court today imposed with
immediate effect a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana
from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the
river Yamuna in Delhi. A Bench comprising Mr. Justice B.N. ...
34) Kanagawa doing 'best' to stop dioxin pollution at U.S.
base DATELINE: YOKOHAMA, Jan. 25 Kyodo BODY: Kanagawa Gov.
Hiroshi Okazaki said Tuesday Kanagawa is doing 'its best'
to cope with dioxin pollution by an industrial waste
disposal facility near the U.S. Navy's Atsugi base. 'We are
having a company install a particle-collecting filter on ...
35) 01/25 Environmentalists Sue Tosco Over Dioxin Discharges SAN
FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two environmental groups have sued the Tosco
Corp (TOS.N)., alleging that its Avon, Calif., refinery discharges
illegal amounts of the dangerous chemical dioxin into San Francisco
Bay, a group spokesman said Tuesday. Communities for a Better ...
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