Global News Headlines 04/13

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Thursday, April 13, 2000
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 ATMOSPHERE 

(GREENPEACE)
1) AAP NEWSFEED April 13, 2000, LENGTH: 405 words HEADLINE: 
Fed: Government dodging emission targets BODY: - Greenpeace 
Greenhouse By Linda McSweeny and Max Blenkin CANBERRA, 
April 13 AAP - Greenpeace today accused the federal 
government of trying to dodge world greenhouse gas emission 
reduction targets. The accusation came as the federal ...

2) The Independent (London) April 13, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 
14 HEADLINE: AMPHIBIANS 'IN DECLINE FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS'  BYLINE:
Steve Connor Science Editor BODY: THE GLOBAL  decline in frogs and
toads is a genuine phenomenon that  began long before biologists
first suspected it. Scientists  have conducted the biggest study yet
into the drastic fall ...

3) THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/DAILY YOMIURI: CLIMATE CHANGE 
COMMITMENT REAL, G-8 MINISTERS SAY Japan ; 13-Apr-2000 
Climate change commitment real, G-8 ministers say Mikiko 
Miyakawa Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Despite their 
failure to set a unified deadline for the ratification of 
the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, environment ...

 ENERGY 

4) South China Morning Post April 13, 2000 SECTION: News; Pg. 
14 HEADLINE: If your car smells of cheese, that may be the  only whey
to go BYLINE: MICHAEL LEIDIG in Vienna BODY:  Instead of four-star
and unleaded - garage pumps of the  future could be offering full-fat
or skimmed - after German  scientists developed a way of running cars
on milk. Rather ...

(GREENPEACE)
5) Greenpeace crashes BP's party By Andrew Callus LONDON, 
April 13 (Reuters) - Greenpeace claimed a moral victory 
over BPAmoco Plc on Thursday, persuading a large minority 
of shareholders to back its call for the oil giant to stop 
drilling in the Arctic. The environmental group won seven 
percent support at BP's annual meeting in London for its ...

(GREENPEACE)
6) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 324 words HEADLINE: Alaskan 
protestors call on BP Amoco to stop "cultural genocide" 
DATELINE: LONDON, April 13 BODY: Angry Alaskans and 
environmentalists dressed as polar bears protested outside 
oil giant BP Amoco's annual meeting Thursday, urging it to 
scrap a project in the Arctic they said would amount to ...

(GREENPEACE)
7) The Independent (London) April 13, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 
14 LENGTH: 798 words HEADLINE: AMERICA'S ARCTIC WILDERNESS 
THREATENED BY BP BYLINE: Michael Mccarthy Environment  Correspondent
BODY: THE AREA is known as America's  Serengeti - a vast Alaskan
wilderness providing a wildlife  spectacle paralleled only in the
legendary national park in ...

8) The Independent (London) April 13, 2000, SECTION: TITLE 
PAGE; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: SECRET BP PLAN TO DRILL IN PRISTINE 
WILDLIFE SANCTUARY BYLINE: Michael Mccarthy Environment 
Correspondent BODY: BP AMOCO, the company that presents 
itself as the greenest of the oil giants, has lobbied 
behind the scenes for America's greatest wildlife refuge to ...

(GREENPEACE)
9) Financial Times April 12 2000,UK (Online) Energy Exxon 
Mobil reaches deal on Arco assets sale By Hillary Durgin in 
Houston and Richard Wolffe in Washington Published: April 
12 2000 23:53GMT | Last Updated: April 13 2000 17:20GMT  Exxon Mobil
said on Wednesday it had reached an "agreement  in principle" with BP
Amoco, Atlantic Richfield and ...

 FORESTS 

10) HEADLINE: Fed: Democrats urge more protection for forest 
protesters BODY: Forests CANBERRA, April 13 AAP - The 
Australian Democrats today urged the Human Rights and Equal 
Opportunities Commission to investigate reports of loggers 
attacking protesters in the nation's forests. "From the 
Otways and Gippsland in Victoria, to the South-West forests ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
11) The Guardian (London) April 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home 
Pages; Pg. 5 LENGTH: 889 words HEADLINE: Euro vote 'lets GM 
companies off the hook'; Ruling by MEPs rocks environmental 
groups BYLINE: Andrew Osborn in Brussels BODY: Opponents of 
genetically modified food were left reeling yesterday after 
the European parliament ruled that big GM producers, such ...

12) The Ottawa Citizen April 13, 2000, Thursday, FINAL SECTION: 
News; A1 / Front HEADLINE: Canada's GM salmon grow five 
times faster than normal: Fish farmers excited, 
environmentalists alarmed BYLINE: Tom Spears BODY: A 
Newfoundland company will ask the federal government this 
spring to let it start commercial production of transgenic ...

13) XINHUA NEWS AGENCY. HEADLINE: Breakthrough in Detecting 
Transgenetic Products DATELINE: NANJING, April 13 BODY: 
China has made a breakthrough in detecting transgenetic 
products. By using a genetic screening technique called the 
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, the Jiangsu Entry-Exit
Inspection and Quarantine Bureau in east China has ...

14) 04/13 Protesters Destroy Genetically Modified Field  TOULOUSE, France
(Reuters) - Several hundred environmental  campaigners destroyed a
field of genetically modified (GM)  rapeseed in France Thursday as
part of a public awareness  campaign, the Green Party said. Around
400 protesters,  including Green Party activists, took part in the ...

15) UPDATE 1-FAO official sees risks from gene foods By David 
Brough ROME, April 13 (Reuters) - A senior official of the 
U.N.'s world food body has acknowledged "potential risks" 
from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to human health 
and the environment and advised risk assessment on a case 
by case basis. "We do acknowledge that there are potential ...

16) EVENING CHRONICLE (Newcastle, UK) April 13, 2000, Edition 1 
SECTION: BRITAIN TONIGHT, Pg. 6 HEADLINE: Report slams GM 
food benefits BODY: The consumer benefits of the next 
generation of genetically -modified foods are being 
overstated by the biotech industry, claims a report 
published today by the Food Commission and GeneWatch UK. It ...

 MILITARY 

17) The Guardian (London) April 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Foreign Pages; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: US to atone for denying 
nuclear ills BYLINE: Martin Kettle in Washington BODY: 
Martin Kettle in Washington After decades of official 
denial by successive US governments, the Clinton 
administration publicly acknowledged responsibility ...

18) The Guardian (London) April 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Science Pages; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Uranium gets the bullet; 
David Hambling on the controversial tank-busting weapon 
that's back in the news BODY: The use of depleted uranium 
weapons is once more causing concern. The people of Kosovo 
have been alarmed to discover that the conflict there has ...

19) Associated Press. April 13, 2000, HEADLINE: Navy reports 
radioactive leak on nuclear sub at Pearl Harbor DATELINE: 
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii BODY: Radioactive water leaked from a 
pipe within a nuclear - powered submarine's propulsion 
plant but no radioactivity was released, the Navy said. The 
radioactive water was contained in one of the submarine's ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

20) HEADLINE: SA: Nuclear waste ban before SA parliament today 
BODY: Nuclear ADELAIDE, April 13 AAP - A bill aimed at 
banning the establishment of a nuclear waste dump in South 
Australia will be debated in state parliament today. 
Opposition leader Mike Rann said he hoped the government 
would provide bi-partisan support for the private member's ...

21) Financial Times (Online) asia pacific Chen reviews nuclear 
pledge By Mure Dickie Published: April 13 2000 The mood 
among the anti-nuclear activists gathering in a bleak 
fishermen's hall in northern Taiwan's Kungliao township 
seemed strangely subdued for a group whose champion had 
just won power. After all, the campaign to halt nearby ...

22) LEAD: Police to establish case over Tokaimura accident 
TOKYO, April 13 (Kyodo) -- Police have decided to establish 
a criminal case against an unspecified number of managers 
and employees of JCO Co. over the major nuclear accident at 
the company's uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, 
Ibaraki Prefecture, in September last year, police sources ...

23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japan's nuclear plant 
operator facing charges over disaster: report DATELINE: 
TOKYO, April 13 BODY: Japanese police plan to file criminal 
charges against a uranium plant operator and nine officials 
after the nation's worst nuclear disaster last September, a 
report said Thursday. Police are targeting the Tokaimura ...

24) The Independent (London) April 13, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 
2 HEADLINE: BNFL IS ACCUSED OF 'PLOTTING DIRTY TRICKS'  BYLINE: Paul
Waugh, Political Correspondent BODY: BRITISH  NUCLEAR Fuels has been
accused of preparing "dirty tricks"  to undermine its critics and
promote its case within the  Government. A Channel 4 documentary to
be screened tonight ...

(GREENPEACE)
25) The Mirror April 13, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9 LENGTH: 305 
words HEADLINE: ENGLISH NUKE PLANT POLLUTING SCOTLAND; NATS 
WANT SELLAFIELD SHUT BYLINE: Alistair Clay BODY: SELLAFIELD 
reprocessing plant is polluting Scotland's coastline with 
deadly nuclear waste and should be shut down, the SNP 
claimed yesterday. The cancer-causing discharges have been ...

 OCEANS 

26) Qld: OK Tedi mine dismisses PNG concerns over reef BODY: By 
Janelle Miles and Gil Breitkreutz BRISBANE, April 13 AAP - 
BHP's OK Tedi Mine tonight dismissed concerns by a Papua 
New Guinea politician that run-off could be polluting the 
Great Barrier Reef. Gabia Gagirimabu, the PNG MP for South 
Fly, today called for an urgent scientific study of the ...

27) South China Morning Post April 13, 2000 SECTION: News; Pg. 
11 HEADLINE: Illegal fishermen kill officers BYLINE: KAY  JOHNSON
BODY: A deadly attack on fisheries officials has  escalated already
tense relations between the authorities  trying to prevent depletion
of Cambodia's fish stocks and  villagers who depend on fishing for
their livelihood. Three ...

(GREENPEACE)
28) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 525 words HEADLINE: Japan 
slams "blind" protection of endangered wildlife DATELINE: 
NAIROBI, April 13 BODY: Japan reiterated Thursday its 
opposition to the unchecked protection of endangered 
wildlife and said it was against boosting the powers of 
CITES, a convention for species threatened with extinction. ...

29) 04/12 Turtle Shell Sales Under Attack By GEORGE MWANGI  Associated
Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A plan by  Cuba to sell the
shells of endangered hawksbill turtles to  Japan came under attack
Wednesday from conservationists who  said the proposal ignored the
migratory nature of the  turtles who breed in one part of the
Caribbean and feed in ...

(GREENPEACE)
30) 04/12 Mexico Blasts U.S. on Tuna Imports MEXICO CITY (AP)  -- Mexican
authorities said Wednesday a U.S. federal court  ruling on
"dolphin-safe" labels that effectively extends  the U.S. ban on
Mexican tuna was unfair and uninformed.  "This is a great loss for
Mexico," said Dalia de la Pena  Wing, spokeswoman for the Secretariat
of Environment, ...

(GREENPEACE)
31) Associated Press. April 12, 2000, LENGTH: 129 words 
HEADLINE: Unalaska city council donates funds for sea lion 
lawsuit defense DATELINE: UNALASKA BODY: The Unalaska City 
Council has donated another $10,000 to help the National 
Marine Fisheries Service defend itself in a lawsuit dealing 
with the Steller sea lion, KIAL Radio reported Wednesday. ...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

32) 04/13 Herbal Medicine Threatens Some Wild Plants By Kieran  Murray
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Western consumers' growing  passion for herbal
medicine is threatening the survival of  some of the most valuable
wild plants, scientists and  conservationists told a U.N. gathering
in Nairobi. Some  plants used to cure ailments for centuries,
especially in ...

33) OBSERVER: The skinny on the latte OBSERVER COLUMN Financial 
Times ; 12-Apr-2000 Like most cults, Starbucks has its 
detractors, and the provider of caffeine injections to 
addicted Americans was perhaps an obvious target for the 
protests planned ahead of next week's meetings of the World 
Bank and International Monetary Fund. Global Exchange, a ...

 TOXICS 

34) Globe and Mail April 13, 2000 (Online) City businesses to 
disclose nature of toxic materials Communities near 
chemical plants have right to know health effects, new 
bylaw states HAMIDA GHAFOUR, JAMES RUSK Toronto -- Toronto 
council wants to force businesses to disclose what toxic 
chemicals they have on site. The policy passed unanimously ...

35) Deutsche Presse-Agentur April 13, 2000 HEADLINE: U.S. to 
help Philippines in toxic waste problem DATELINE: Manila 
BODY: The United States has agreed to help conduct a 
comprehensive study on the alleged presence of toxic wastes 
in two former American military bases in the northern 
Philippines, a foreign affairs official said on Thursday. ...

36) BusinessWorld (Philippines). April 13, 2000 HEADLINE: DENR 
chief orders probe on two bases' toxic wastes BODY: 
Secretary Antonio H. Cerilles of the Department of 
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ordered yesterday 
the investigation of deaths allegedly due to poisoning from 
toxic wastes in two former US military bases. He sent out a ...

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