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Tuesday, June 20, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) ASIA PULSE June 20, 2000 SECTION: Nationwide Financial News 
LENGTH: 113 words HEADLINE: CHINA BECOMES WORLD S LARGEST 
BIOENERGY CONSUMER DATELINE: BEIJING, June 20 BODY: China 
has become the largest bioenergy consumer in the world. The 
country is rich in renewable energy sources, distributed 
mainly in rural areas. It had 2,099 enterprises engaged in 

2) Financial Times ; 20-Jun-2000 SURVEY - POWER GENERATION 
EQUIPMENT: The alternative forms move into the mainstream: 
RENEWABLE ENERGY by Peter Marsh: Worries about potential 
environmental damage mean that ways of producing 
electricity through methods other than burning fossil fuels 
are no longer being regarded as marginal but are receiving 

3) NZ would throw tiny Tuvalu a lifeline, says Goff 
WELLINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - If the tiny island nation 
of Tuvalu were to sink beneath the waves, then New Zealand 
and other South Pacific countries would come to its rescue, 
New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff said on Tuesday. 
 Tuvalu has asked New Zealand to accept about 3,000 

(Greenpeace)
4) AP Worldstream June 20, 2000 LENGTH: 352 words HEADLINE: 
Greenpeace distributes false report under oil company name 
DATELINE: OSLO, Norway BODY: Greenpeace acknowledged 
Tuesday that it was behind a false report distributed under 
the name and logo of Norway's state oil company, Statoil 
ASA. The report, called ''Statoil - An Energy Company for 

(Greenpeace)
5) BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom ; 20-Jun-2000 BBC 
MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS: OIL SPILLS CONTAMINATE 
NATIONAL PARK IN NORTHERN RUSSIA; 221 words Text of report 
by Russian TV6 on 20th June [Presenter] Oil pollution has 
become a major issue in the Usinskiy District of Komi 
Republic. Greenpeace environmentalists visited the area 

(Greenpeace)
6) Financial Times ; 20-Jun-2000 SURVEY - POWER GENERATION 
EQUIPMENT: Ready to exploit the market of the future: The 
company is preparing to meet demand for solar energy once 
it can compete on equal price terms with coal or gas 670 
words If you are a multi-billionaire, then putting Pounds 
6.1m into a solar-energy company may seem like fairly small 

7) The Independent (London) June 20, 2000 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 10
LENGTH: 572 words HEADLINE: MINI-HEATWAVE BRINGS OUT THE 
FIRST SMOG ALERT BYLINE: Barrie Clement BODY: THE FIRST 
smog alert of the summer was issued yesterday while most of 
Britain enjoyed the end of a mini-heatwave. Michael 
Meacher, an Environment minister, urged everyone "to do 

8) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 20, 2000 HEADLINE: Severe 
floods, deaths may hit New York area if climate warms up 
DATELINE: New York BODY: New York City and surrounding 
areas are likely to be hit by severe floods, sickness and 
deaths if temperatures in those areas continue to rise, a 
study by NASA scientists and the U.S. government said 

FORESTS

(Greenpeace)
9) The Vancouver Sun June 20, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; B6 
LENGTH: 276 words HEADLINE: Northern towns want decisions 
to be made locally: They decide, however, not to pass a 
motion declaring the northern half of B.C. to be a 
Greenpeace - free zone. DATELINE: DAWSON CREEK BODY: DAWSON 
CREEK -- A group of northern B.C. municipalities says it 

(Greenpeace)
10) 06/20 ENVIRONMENT PROTESTERS IN SHIP PROTEST By Nell Raven, 
PA News Greenpeace activists today climbed on board a ship 
carrying timber and prevented it from docking and unloading 
its cargo. Protesters from the environment group went 
alongside the MV Enif in inflatable dinghies at the Thames 
Estuary, north of Sheerness, before a team of six chained 

(Greenpeace)
11) Press Association Newsfile June 20, 2000 LENGTH: 123 words 
HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT PROTESTERS IN SHIP PROTEST BYLINE: 
Nell Raven, PA News BODY: Greenpeace activists today 
climbed on board a ship carrying timber and prevented it 
from docking and unloading its cargo. Protesters from the 
environment group went alongside the MV Enif in inflatable 

12) The Associated Press June 20, 2000 HEADLINE: Town that 
timber built now opposes logging company's practices 
BYLINE: By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: 
ARNOLD, Calif. BODY: This community has grown up around 
logging for 60 years, its history so entwined with timber 
that it is building a logging museum. A sign at the edge of 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

13) Fed: Greens predict parliamentary backlash on GE issues 
BODY: CANBERRA, June 20 AAP - The Greens today predicted a 
parliamentary backlash after a lower house committee 
recommended the continuation of gene technology. Greens 
senator Bob Brown said the federal government's plan to 
legally back broadacre genetically engineered (GE) crops in 

14) The Canberra Times June 20, 2000, Tuesday Edition SECTION: 
A;5 LENGTH: 476 words HEADLINE: Pros, cons of GM foods get 
public airing BYLINE: HONEY WEBB BODY: The long-term safety 
of genetically modified foods came under scrutiny yesterday 
as the Australia New Zealand Food Authority launched a 
consumer guide and issued assessments of five GM foods for 

15) Brazil blocks more Argentine corn as GM-suspect By Jeremy 
Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20 (Reuters) - Brazil has 
temporarily banned the entry of another cargo of Argentine 
corn while experts determine whether the grain is 
genetically modified and thus contravenes local law, 
officials said on Tuesday. The government of Brazil's 

16) The Ottawa Citizen June 20, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A8 
HEADLINE: Researchers aim to take cone out of coniferous: 
Tree project latest in genetic modification BYLINE: Colin 
Grey BODY: Canadian government scientists are testing the 
first of 250 genetically engineered spruce, part of their 
research into the newest frontier of genetic modification 

17) 06/20 CONTAMINATED SEED ACCIDENTALLY PLANTED ON `GM-FREE' 
SIT By Joe Quinn, Scottish Political Editor, PA News A crop 
of supposedly GM-free oil seed rape being used in a 
scientific trial in Scotland was planted instead with 
contaminated seed, rural affairs minister Ross Finnie said 
today. The disclosure came as the latest twist in the 

18) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 20, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 11 
LENGTH: 274 words HEADLINE: News: Study into GM food opens 
BYLINE: By David Brown, Agriculture Editor BODY: POSSIBLE 
health risks caused by genetically modified food will be 
investigated by the Food Standards Agency. The study, 
expected to start within days and take 18 months, was 

MILITARY

19) AP Worldstream June 20, 2000 HEADLINE: US-Russia nuclear 
meeting ends without immediate comment DATELINE: OSLO, 
Norway BODY: A high-level meeting between the United States 
and Russia on arms control ended Tuesday with no immediate 
comment other than that the talks were open and 
constructive. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott 

20) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Students protest on US 
bombing range in South Korea BYLINE: Jun Kwan-Woo DATELINE: 
SEOUL, June 20 BODY: Five South Korean students entered a 
US bombing range south of here on Tuesday to demand its 
closure, just before US planes were due to start an 
exercise, a US military official said. The five, from the 

NUCLEAR POWER

21) Reuters IAEA head in Bulgaria to see Kozloduy nuclear plant 
BULGARIA: June 20, 2000 SOFIA - The head of the world's 
nuclear watchdog the IAEA said on Monday he was having 
talks in Sofia on how Bulgaria was implementing safety 
improvements at its Soviet-designed Kozloduy nuclear power 
plant. "We have been very active here to help Bulgaria 

22) UPDATE 1-France, Russia sign nuclear cooperation accord By 
Gillian Handyside PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - Russia and 
France have signed an accord lifting barriers to the 
large-scale supply of French nuclear equipment to Russia, 
the Russian embassy in Paris said on Tuesday. The two 
countries also agreed to examine the feasibility of 

23) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 20, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 13 
HEADLINE: News: International: Greens in threat to German 
coalition BYLINE: By Toby Helm in Berlin BODY: THE FUTURE 
of Germany's governing coalition was being called into 
question last night as "fundamentalists" in the Green Party 
prepared to reject a deal on the phased closure of the 19 

24) The Independent (London) June 20, 2000 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 2 
HEADLINE: SELLAFIELD SABOTAGE WAS INTENDED TO DIVERT MOX 
INQUIRY BYLINE: Steve Connor Science Editor BODY: A WORKER 
at British Nuclear Fuels' Sellafield plant tried to 
sabotage the manufacture of nuclear fuel rods by adding 
debris to highly radioactive fuel pellets, an inquiry by the

OCEANS

25) AP Worldstream June 20, 2000 HEADLINE: Ban on harvesting 
clams, oysters lifted in western France after oil spill. 
 DATELINE: NANTES, France BODY: French authorities on 
Tuesday lifted a ban on harvesting oysters, cockleshells 
and clams off the Atlantic coast in western France that was 
imposed following a devastating oil spill in December. The 

26) 06/20 Govt finalizing project to conserve environment, 
NATION THE European Commission (EC) plans to launch a major 
project later this year to help Thailand in its effort to 
support conservation and the sustainable use and management 
of coastal resources, the chief of the commission's 
delegation to Thailand said yesterday. Michel Caillouet, 

TOXICS

(Greenpeace)
27) FEATURE-Israeli commandos vow fight after contracting cancer
By Danielle Haas TEL AVIV, June 20 (Reuters) - The oily, 
foetid waters of Israel's Kishon River stank for miles 
around. Dead fish floated at its edges. But for more than 
two decades from the 1970s to 1990s, Yuval Tamir and others 
in his elite naval unit swam and dived in its murky depths 

28) Agence France Presse June 20, 2000 HEADLINE: Child 
farmworkers abused in the US: Human Rights Watch DATELINE: 
WASHINGTON, June 20 BODY: Hundreds of thousands of child 
farmworkers in the United States are working under 
dangerous and grueling conditions, an international human 
rights groups charged in a report released Tuesday. Human 

29) AMERICANS SUPPORT TRACKING OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE FACTORS 
WASHINGTON, DC, June 19, 2000 (ENS) - Nine out of 10 
Americans say environmental factors like pollution, waste 
and chemicals are important contributors to diseases, a new 
survey by the national public health organization 
Health-Track found. The poll shows that 68 percent of 

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