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Friday, June 23, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
(Greenpeace)
1) Australian Broadcasting Corporation 23/06/2000 (Online)
Greenpeace takes its protest to Senate committee Greenpeace
has followed up yesterday's protest at a shale oil plant in
Queensland, with a submission to a Senate committee arguing
for the phasing out of fossil fuel use. Appearing before
the Senate inquiry into global warming in Canberra,
2) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Key Alpine motorway closed
by pollution demo DATELINE: INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 23
BODY: A key trans-Alpine motorway in Austria was closed
Friday due to a protest over pollution produced by trucks
thundering along the road, police said. The Brenner
highway, which links Germany with Italy, was closed south
3) 06/22 EU: Fine Nations That Don't Cut Greenhouse Gas
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union environment ministers
said Thursday that countries which fail to meet their
international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions should be made to pay financial penalties. The
ministers met in Luxembourg to hone the position the
4) New Scientist June 24, 2000 SECTION: This Week: Newswire
HEADLINE: Polluting rights BODY: Global warming is best
tackled if all the world's citizens have the right to emit
the same amount of carbon dioxide, the most abundant
greenhouse gas. So says Britain's Royal Commission on
Environmental Pollution, in a report on climate change
ENERGY
5) Reuters INTERVIEW - Bulgaria invites firms to search for
oil, gas BULGARIA : June 23, 2000 SOFIA - Bulgaria, which
lacks energy resources, is offering its Black Sea shelf for
oil and gas exploration, a senior government official said
yesterday. Deputy Environment Minister Neno Dimov told
Reuters in an interview that two blocks were currently
6) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: TotalFina stops Erika
clean-up advert DATELINE: PARIS, June 23 BODY: French oil
giant TotalFinaElf stopped on Friday a controversial
television advertisement showing the aftermath of the wreck
of the oil-tanker Erika after complaints it could damage
the tourist season. The film, which begins with pictures of
7) AP Worldstream June 23, 2000; HEADLINE: Ship sinks off
South Africa's coast, raising fears of oil spill BYLINE:
MIKE COHEN DATELINE: CAPE TOWN, South Africa BODY: A ship
carrying 1,300 tons of fuel oil sank early Friday morning
off the coast of Cape Town, raising authorities' fear that
the oil could pollute the beaches of one of the country's
8) BIODIESEL PASSES CLEAN AIR ACT REQUIREMENTS WASHINGTON, DC,
June 22, 2000 (ENS) - Biodiesel - an alternative fuel made
from renewable resources, such as soybean oil - has become
the first and only alternative fuel to have successfully
completed the health effects testing requirements of the
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. The tests, released
9) The Economist June 24, 2000 , U.S. Edition SECTION: Natural
gas HEADLINE: Torrid BODY: "THE big American gas crunch is
coming," says Mark Papa, the boss of EOG, an American
energy company. Angry American drivers, paying record
prices for gasoline, may think the crunch has come already.
But the gas market suffering this particular price shock is
10) The Boston Globe June 23, 2000, THIRD EDITION SECTION:
METRO/REGION; Pg. B4 HEADLINE: COAST GUARD CREDITED IN
QUICK CLEANUP OF OIL SPILL BYLINE: By Ieva Augstums, Globe
Correspondent BODY: The worst fuel oil spill in Boston
Harbor's history has also resulted in the most successful
clean-up, Coast Guard officials said yesterday. More than
FORESTS
11) South China Morning Post June 23, 2000 SECTION: News; Pg. 14
HEADLINE: Logging protest time rolls in again BODY: With
eco-activists planning a season of protests, loggers
fighting to protect their jobs, the Premier appealing for
calm and grandmothers ending up in jail, you know it's the
start of another British Columbia summer. The hot spot this
12) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: INDONESIA CONSIDERS INT L LAWSUIT
AGAINST MALAYSIA DATELINE: PONTIANAK, June 23 BODY:
Indonesia will sue Malaysia at the International Court of
Justice over illegal logging at the border of East
Kalimantan if the Malaysian government refuses to address
the situation, secretary general of the Forestry Ministry
(Greenpeace)
13) UK police arrest Greenpeace timber-ship protesters LONDON,
June 23 (Reuters) - Greenpeace said seven of their
activists had been arrested and two appeared in court in
Britain on Friday for protests against a ship carrying
Brazilian timber. Essex police said they had arrested a man
and a woman for daubing the MV Enif with white paint from
GENETIC ENGINEERING
14) Reuters Australia introduces gene technology bill AUSTRALIA
: June 23, 2000 CANBERRA - The Australian government tabled
gene technology legislation in parliament yesterday which
proposes a regulator to ensure the country maintains the
highest safety standards. "The sole purpose of the
Regulator will be to protect the health and safety of the
15) Globe and Mail, Canada (Online) Frankenfoods need more
testing, Chrétien agrees ANNE McILROY Parliamentary Bureau
Chief Friday, June 23, 2000 Paris -- Prime Minister Jean
Chrétien conceded yesterday that the French need to do more
testing to ensure that the genetically modified food
products Canadians have been eating for years are safe for
16) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 23, 2000, HEADLINE: China's
second cloned goat survives after death of first one
DATELINE: Beijing BODY: Thirty-six hours after the death of
China's first cloned goat a second was born, the official
Xinhua news agency said on Friday, quoting genetic
researchers at a university in the city of Xian. The first
(Greenpeace)
17) GREENPEACE SAYS GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOYA FOUND IN CZECH
FOODSTUFFS BBC Monitoring Service ; 23-Jun-2000 ; 163 words
Prague, 22nd June: Greenpeace activists today placed labels
on genetically modified food products at a Billa
supermarket in Prague-Prosek, Vaclav Vasku, a spokesman for
the organisation, told CTK today. "The tests of individual
18) Italy seeks block on some GM-derived products BRUSSELS,
June 23 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday
Italy had signalled it would stop the sale of several
authorised food products derived from genetically modified
(GM) material, although the move was not linked to health
concerns. The products, such as oil, flour, starch and
(Greenpeace)
19) PA 06/23 PROSECUTION OF GM PROTESTERS RULED OUT By Maria
Breslin, PA News Five environmental activists arrested
after they ambushed a ship loaded with genetically-modified
soya will not be prosecuted, police confirmed today. The
Greenpeace protesters were detained by north Wales police
in February this year after boarding the Liverpool-bound
MILITARY
20) Russian Press Digest June 23, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE:
Our Response To America's Nuclear Shield BYLINE: Yury
Kovalenko SOURCE: NOVYYE IZVESTIA, pp. 1, 6 HIGHLIGHT:
America's national ABM system will not catch us off guard,
declares leading Russian weapons designer. BODY: No, the
American project for deploying a new nuclear shield
21) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
June 23, 2000, SECTION: News; Pg. 12 HEADLINE: Missile
Pledge Clears Way for Talks With North Korea BYLINE: By
Jane Perlez; New York Times Service DATELINE: BEIJING BODY:
North Korea has reaffirmed its pledge to the United States
to stop flight-testing its long-range missile, paving the
NUCLEAR POWER
22) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence June 23, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 30 HEADLINE: Greens target nuclear mining
SOURCE: The West Australian BYLINE: Mark Mallabone ABSTRACT:
Uranium mining would be prohibited in Western Australia
under a Bill introduced to WA Parliament by the Greens
(WA). The Nuclear Activities (Prohibition) Bill is also
23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Berlin could finance Ukraine
nuclear reactors: Fischer DATELINE: KIEV, June 23 BODY:
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Friday that his
country did not exclude helping Ukraine to build two nuclear
reactors to replace the outdated Chernobyl plant. His
comments came despite Germany's own rejection of nuclear
24) The Guardian (London) June 23, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Foreign Pages, Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Greens' core voters gather
BYLINE: John Hooper in Berlin BODY: German Green party
delegates meet in Munster today for a key vote on the issue
on which their party was founded: the future of nuclear
power. Last week the government finally struck a deal with
25) The Independent (London) June 23, 2000, SECTION: FEATURES;
Pg. 8 HEADLINE: SCIENCE: CAN SELLAFIELD SURVIVE THE LATEST
THREAT OF FALL-OUT?; LAST YEAR, THE INDEPENDENT REVEALED A
QUALITY- CONTROL SCANDAL AT SELLAFIELD'S MOX FUEL PLANT.
BRITISH NUCLEAR FUELS SAYS IT'S SOLVED THE PROBLEM. BUT
WITH MOX AN ECONOMICALLY UNVIABLE PRODUCT, IS THERE ANY
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
26) The Canberra Times June 23, 2000, SECTION: A;3 LENGTH: 276
words HEADLINE: Little hope of sanctuary for whales: Hill
BYLINE: HONEY WEBB BODY: Environment Minister Robert Hill
has downgraded Australia's hopes of getting enough
international support to establish a whale sanctuary in the
South Pacific. Senator Hill said any objective observer
(Greenpeace)
27) 06/23 Greenpeace slams killing driftnets used off Russia By
Michael Steen MOSCOW (Reuters) - Huge driftnets cast in
waters off far eastern Russia to catch fish for the
Japanese market are slaughtering countless fish and birds,
the environmental group Greenpeace said Friday. Finely
meshed drift nets up to five miles long, banned in
28) The Times (London) June 23, 2000, SECTION: Home news
HEADLINE: Salmon and cod 'killed by soap' BYLINE: Nick
Nuttall Environment Correspondent BODY: A range of sea
life, including migrating salmon, cod and oysters, is being
damaged by common herbicides and chemicals used in soaps,
new research shows. In Copenhagen next week, at the
29) 06/22 Cook Inlet Whales Escape Endangered Listing By Yereth
Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The beluga whale
population in Alaska's Cook Inlet, which has dropped by
nearly half in the past six years, is not so imperiled that
it needs protection under the Endangered Species Act, a
federal agency ruled on Thursday. The National Marine
30) Associated Press. June 23, 2000, HEADLINE: Hawaii aims to
slow shark finning BYLINE: By BRUCE DUNFORD, Associated
Press Writer DATELINE: HONOLULU BODY: A new Hawaii law is
intended to curtail the state's lucrative trade in shark
fins used for pricey Asian soups and touted as medicinal
remedies. The law says shark fins brought to Hawaiian ports
TOXICS
31) New Scientist June 24, 2000 SECTION: This Week: Newswire,
Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Death knell for asbestos BODY: In a
victory for environmentalists, the World Trade Organization
is expected to decide that banning asbestos does not break
free trade rules. France bans all asbestos as a health
hazard. Canada, the world's largest asbestos exporter,
32) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 23, 2000, HEADLINE: Ship
carrying 50 tons of pesticide capsizes in Yangtze DATELINE:
Beijing BODY: Barely a day after a private ferry capsized
resulting in 14 confirmed deaths, a boat carrying some 50
tons of toxic pesticide has capsized in the Yangtze River
near the city of Yueyang, river authorities said. Due to
33) South China Morning Post June 23, 2000 SECTION: News; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: Ban on styrofoam lunch boxes urged BYLINE:
ENVIRONMENT May Sin-mi Hon BODY: Legislators want the
Government to explore the feasibility of banning styrofoam
lunch boxes, but Secretary for Environment and Food Lily
Yam Kwan Pui-ying said she was opposed to prohibition at
(Greenpeace)
34) Turkey, Spain Urged to Stop Toxic Waste Trade ANKARA (June
23) XINHUA - Turkish and Spanish Greenpeace campaigners are
pressing both governments to ensure the return to Spain of
a toxic waste cargo, owned by the Spanish company Dragados,
now held in Turkey. The cargo of toxic ashes is currently
being held at the Turkish southern Mediterranean port of
35) Reuters Tosco reaches dioxins compromise with regulators
USA: June 23, 2000 LOS ANGELES - Tosco Corp. , after
threatening to shut down its San Francisco refinery in an
environmental dispute, reached a compromise with local
water officials that gives it 12 years to meet stricter
limits on discharges of cancer-causing chemicals. San
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