Global News Headlines 06/22

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Thursday, June 22, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

(Greenpeace)
1) 06/21 Greenpeace Australia Acts Against Stuart Shale Oil 
Project CANBERRA (Dow Jones)--Environmental group 
Greenpeace Australia resumed action Thursday against the 
Stuart shale oil project in Queensland state, campaigning 
against what they say is the project's high emissions of 
greenhouse gases. About 20 activists with two small 

2) HEADLINE: AUSTRALIA TO BE FIRST HUB FOR TRADING IN CARBON 
CREDITS BODY: PERTH, June 22 Asia Pulse - Australia will be 
the first global hub for investment and trading in carbon 
credits, US- based Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) 
said. HNRG, the world's largest forest investment group, 
said Wednesday it was responding to growing demand for 

3) The Ottawa Citizen June 22, 2000, EARLY SECTION: News; A9 
HEADLINE: Toronto smog kills 1,000 annually: Summit meeting 
considers ways to solve the problem of air pollution 
BYLINE: Tom Spears BODY: In the emergency department of a 
downtown Toronto hospital, Dr. Isser Dubinsky can tell when 
the outdoor air is bad by looking at his patients. ''You 

4) The Calgary Sun June 22, 2000, Final EDITION SECTION: 
BUSINESS, Pg. 59 HEADLINE: SUNCOR TAPS GARBAGE GAS BYLINE: 
CP DATELINE: EDMONTON BODY: Oilsands giant Suncor Energy 
has teamed up with an Ontario engineering firm to tap gases 
percolating in Canadian landfills. Initially, the five-year 
effort with Conestoga-Rovers and Associates of Waterloo 

5) PA 06/21 UK LEADS EU RACE TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASES By 
Amanda Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News The UK 
alone, among five EU nations reviewed in a report out 
today, is on target to meet its agreed reduction of 
greenhouse gases. Germany, which produces the largest 
amounts of polluting greenhouse gases in the EU, will not 

ENERGY

6) Reuters Methanol fuel cells may lower Japan gasoline needs 
JAPAN: June 22, 2000 TOKYO - Future gasoline demand in 
Japan could slip six percent from earlier forecasts if 
methanol is preferred to power fuel cell engines in 
vehicles, a Japanese think-tank said in a report released 
on Wednesday. Japan's Institute of Energy Economics (IEE) 

FORESTS

7) Daily Record June 22, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 28 HEADLINE: 
WORLD'S COFFEE IS RUNNING OUT; DYING FORESTS THREAT TO 
BUSHES BODY: COFFEE - the world's most popular drink - is 
under threat because of forest destruction. Ecologists have 
called for action to save the source of 90 per cent of the 
world's coffee bushes. The highland forests of south-west 

8) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Indonesia mulls lawsuit 
against Malaysia over illegal border logging DATELINE: 
JAKARTA, June 22 BODY: Indonesia will sue Malaysia at the 
International Court of Justice if it does nothing to end 
alleged illegal logging by its citizens at their common 
border on Borneo island, a report said Thursday. Forestry 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

9) Reuters Australian insurers see GM food as hard to insure 
AUSTRALIA: June 22, 2000 SYDNEY - Growers and sellers of 
genetically modified (GM) foods may face insurance hurdles 
in bringing their product to market, a report by the 
Australian insurance industry said. Unforeseen risks in GM 
foods may be too high for insurers to enter into liability 

(Greenpeace)
10) Lab tests detect illegal GM in Brazil food samples By 
Jeremy Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21 (Reuters) - European 
analysts have detected genetically modified materials in 
more than a quarter of food samples recently sent from 
Brazil, where the marketing of GM crops is banned, a 
leading consumer body said Wednesday. The Brazilian 

11) Bulgarian MP withdraws draft bill on GMO ban SOFIA, June 22 
(Reuters) - A member of parliament has withdrawn a draft 
bill to ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in 
Bulgaria after receiving guarantees that GMOs will not be 
commercially released soon, officials said on Thursday. The 
draft proposing a moratorium on GMOs used in the food 

12) The Gazette (Montreal) June 22, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
A14 HEADLINE: Patented seed escaped into fields, trial 
told: The lawyer of a farmer being sued by giant Monsanto 
for illegally using pesticide -resistant canola argues that 
once that seed is in the environment, exclusive rights are 
lost. BYLINE: CRAIG WONG DATELINE: SASKATOON BODY: 

13) GM traces found in maize seed in France -US firm By Greg 
Frost PARIS, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. seed company Golden 
Harvest on Thursday said it had found traces of genetically 
modified (GM) material in maize seed it imported into 
France, but levels were so small as to pose no problem. 
 Opponents of GM crops demanded both the immediate 

14) Reuters Illegal GM sugar beet said sown in Italy ITALY: 
June 22, 2000 ROME - Genetically modified sugar beet has 
been sown illegally in open fields in central Italy, a 
leading environmentalist group said on Wednesday. The Farm 
Ministry has called for an investigation and said the 
state-backed biotechnology committee should resign if it is 

(Greenpeace)
15) Aberdeen Press and Journal June 21, 2000 SECTION: 
Business:Farm/Food:News, Pg.1
 LENGTH: 692 words HEADLINE: GM trial goes on with tainted 
control crop Calls for instant destruction defied BYLINE: By
BODY: MINISTERS last night faced a chorus of demands for 
genetically-modified oilseed rape to be uprooted after the 

(Greenpeace)
16) The Times (London) June 21, 2000, SECTION: Home news 
LENGTH: 512 words HEADLINE: Scots GM trial to continue in 
spite of contamination BYLINE: Jason Allardyce Scottish 
Political Reporter BODY: SCOTLAND'S only scientific trial 
into genetically modified foods descended into farce 
yesterday after it was disclosed that a supposedly GM-free 

MILITARY

17) The Christian Science Monitor June 22, 2000, SECTION: 
WORLD; BALKING AT US MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM; Pg. 6 
HEADLINE: China threatens to boost nukes BYLINE: Kevin 
Platt, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 
DATELINE: BEIJING HIGHLIGHT: In two weeks, Washington plans 
a crucial test of the proposed $60 billion strategic 

18) Russian Press Digest June 22, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: 
Wait For A Reply. An Asymmetric One BYLINE: Oleg Odnokolenko
SOURCE: SEGODNYA, p. 1 HIGHLIGHT: Russian nuclear missile 
chief makes statement capable of drawing Russia into 
another ruinous nuclear arms race. BODY: Yesterday [June 
22], Russia moved one step closer to a nuclear missile war, 

19) The Christian Science Monitor June 22, 2000, SECTION: USA; 
ATOMIC-AGE FIREFIGHTERS; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Got a nuclear 
crisis? Better call NEST. BYLINE: Peter Grier, Staff writer 
of The Christian Science Monitor DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: 
Two years ago Darwin Morgan was at the movies with his wife 
when he got paged. The message: Come to the office right 

20) Los Angeles Times June 22, 2000, Home Edition SECTION: Part 
A; Part 1; Page 1; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: U.S. EXPECTS TO 
REVIVE N. KOREA MISSILE TALKS BYLINE: BOB DROGIN, TIMES 
STAFF WRITER DATELINE: BEIJING BODY: In another sign of 
easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, senior U.S. 
 officials said today that they expect to soon resume 

NUCLEAR POWER

(Greenpeace)
21) The Gazette (Montreal) June 22, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
A3 LENGTH: 431 words HEADLINE: MUC joins fight over 
plutonium BYLINE: ALLISON HANES BODY: The Montreal Urban 
Community council voted unanimously last night to join 
other municipalities asking the federal government not to 
ship plutonium up the St. Lawrence Seaway. The 

22) The Ottawa Citizen June 22, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A1 / 
Front HEADLINE: Bruce incinerator spits out toxins at 354 
times safe limit: Nuclear -waste facility not penalized 
because rules not legally binding BYLINE: Tom Spears BODY: 
The incinerator that burns all low-level radioactive waste 
from Ontario's nuclear industry emits toxic dioxins and 

23) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Plan to launch new model 
uranium enrichment machine axed DATELINE: TOKYO, June 22 
Kyodo BODY: The operator of a uranium enrichment plant in 
Aomori Prefecture and electric power firms have decided to 
call off a plan to develop a new model of a processing unit 
for the plant, company officials said Thursday. Japan 

(Greenpeace)
24) OTC GREENPEACE: MEXICAN NUCLEAR PLANT UNSAFE Mexico City, 
Jun 22, 2000 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Mexico's congress has 
ordered the country's federal electricity commission to 
perform an independent audit of the Laguna Verde nuclear 
plant in response to a report the plant is unsafe. On June 
6, Greenpeace charged that inadequate safety procedures 

(Greenpeace)
25) PA 06/21 PLEDGE TO CUT BACK RADIOACTIVE DISCHARGES IN SEA 
By Amanda Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News Major 
cutbacks in radioactive discharges to the sea over the next 
20 years were announced by the Government today. The move 
follows a pledge made two years ago by member countries of 
the Oslo and Paris Commissions (OSPAR) in Portugal. The 

(Greenpeace)
26) The Independent (London) June 22, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 2
LENGTH: 393 words HEADLINE: SELLAFIELD WILL BREAK 
DISCHARGES PROMISE BYLINE: Michael Mccarthy Environment 
Correspondent BODY: THE SELLAFIELD nuclear plant will still 
be making substantial radioactive discharges into the Irish 
Sea in 20 years, the Government said yesterday, in spite of 

27) The New York Times June 22, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section C; Page 22; Column 5; Business/Financial 
Desk HEADLINE: Uranium Enrichment Plant In Ohio Chosen for 
Closing BYLINE: By MATTHEW L. WALD DATELINE: WASHINGTON, 
June 21 BODY: The private company that runs the nation's 
only two uranium enrichment plants said today that it would 

OCEANS

(Greenpeace)
28) Australia expects defeat on Pacific whale sanctuary By 
Belinda Goldsmith CANBERRA, June 22 (Reuters) - Australia 
admitted on Thursday it was unlikely to win a vote to 
create a South Pacific whale sanctuary at the annual 
conference of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 
South Australia next month. Australia and New Zealand need 

29) BRITISH COLUMBIA FISH FARMS HIT WITH SYMBOLIC EVICTION 
NOTICE By Neville Judd ALERT BAY, British Columbia, Canada, 
June 20, 2000 (ENS) - A flotilla of boats led by five 
native war canoes protested the presence of fish farms in 
the Broughton Archipelago this morning by serving a 
symbolic eviction notice. Thirty fishing vessels joined the 

30) Thousands petition government on whale sanctuary BODY: 
Whaling CANBERRA, June 22 AAP - Schoolchildren have 
presented the federal government with a 137,000-signature 
petition calling for a global whale sanctuary. Students 
Megan Egerton, Ben Cheyne and Hsu Lynn Lee from inner 
Canberra's Forrest Primary School, handed Environment 

31) Associated Press. June 22, 2000, HEADLINE: Study: Navy 
sonar affects humpbacks' songs - not their health BYLINE: 
By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Science Writer BODY: A powerful new 
sonar being tested by the Navy affects the length of 
humpback whale songs but doesn't seem to lead to any other 
extreme behaviors, according to a new study. Scientists 

TOXICS

32) The Times (London) June 22, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news 
HEADLINE: Israel alarm over polluted water BYLINE: Sam 
Kiley in Jerusalem BODY: Israel was near panic amid 
warnings from its health and environment ministries that 
much of its water is unfit for consumption and could become 
a carcinogenic brew. Fears of permanent drought and "water 

33) THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) June 22, 2000, Edition 1 
SECTION: REGIONAL NEWS, Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Backing incinerators
BODY: A MONTH after a study found toxic ash from an 
incinerator in Newcastle contained pollutants 800 times 
higher than safety guidelines, council chiefs are 
delivering a talk on the benefits of waste-burning 

(Greenpeace)
34) Plastics News June 19, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 86 LENGTH: 482 
words HEADLINE: Europe's PVC industry takes green steps 
BYLINE: Richard Higgs, PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT BODY: 
Europe's PVC industry, including suppliers and processors, 
has pledged to spend up to 250 million euros ($230 million) 
on environmental improvements in the next 10 years. 

(Greenpeace)
35) Plastics News June 19, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 86 LENGTH: 1132 
words HEADLINE: Group creates eco-code for PVC BYLINE: 
Richard Higgs, PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT BODY: Retailers 
and PVC makers in Britain have drawn up a code designed to 
reassure the general public that PVC products have been 
manufactured in "an environmentally responsible way."

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