Global News Headlines 06/28

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Wednesday, June 28, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence June 28, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 58 LENGTH: 132 words HEADLINE: Carbon trade to 
be tested SOURCE: Herald Sun ABSTRACT: Australia is taking 
part in the simulation of a proposed market in greenhouse 
gas permits and credits. The mock market is called "carbon 
trading". If successful, the market may adopt the Kyoto 

2) The Ottawa Citizen June 28, 2000, SECTION: News; A3 LENGTH: 
552 words HEADLINE: Smog costs Ontario '$1B a year': New 
computer model lists toll of hospital visits, absenteeism 
BYLINE: Andrew Duffy BODY: Smog costs Ontario more than $1 
billion a year in hospital admissions, emergency room 
visits and absenteeism, according to a computer model 

3) 06/28 French EU Energy Agenda To Target Renewables;Mkt 
Opening By Sarah Wachter PARIS (Dow Jones)--Renewable 
energy and liberalization will top France's energy agenda 
as it takes over the presidency of the European Union. 
 France expects E.U. members to agree by the year-end on an 
E.U. directive requiring nations to foster renewable energy 

4) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Fifty beaches still being 
cleaned after Erika pollution: minister DATELINE: PARIS, 
June 28 BODY: Days before the start of the summer season, 
around 50 French beaches are still being cleared of oil 
spilled from the tanker Erika, and bookings along the 
Atlantic coast are down nearly a quarter, Tourism Minister 

5) The Northern Echo June 28, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 4 LENGTH: 209 
words HEADLINE: CURBING CAR CULTURE ON STUDENT SYLLABUS 
BODY: STUDENTS took to the streets of Durham to prove you 
don't need a car to get about the city. Members of Durham 
University's People and Planet Society, dedicated to green 
and humanitarian issues, declared Tuesday Curb Car Culture 

FORESTS

(Greenpeace)
6) The Toronto Star June 28, 2000, SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 577 
words HEADLINE: REPORT DEFENDS FOREST INDUSTRY BODY: Allan 
Thompson OTTAWA - Canada should counter international 
boycott campaigns that are hurting the vital forestry 
industry, a House of Commons committee report concludes. 
 The Commons standing committee on natural resources issued 

(Greenpeace)
7) The Vancouver Sun June 28, 2000, Wednesday, FINAL SECTION: 
Business; D2 LENGTH: 861 words HEADLINE: Lies and 
distortions stain green campaign: Forest industry practices 
have changed in past 20 or 30 years; environmental groups' 
tactics have not. BYLINE: Ken Drushka BODY: One of the more 
disconcerting aspects of the environmental campaign against 

8) The Christian Science Monitor June 28, 2000, SECTION: USA; 
BORDER DISPUTE; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1101 words HEADLINE: Note to 
US grizzlies: Avoid Canada BYLINE: Todd Wilkinson, BODY: 
For the animals that have roamed the great wildlands of 
North America over millenniums, the 49th parallel holds no 
distinction. There's no barbed-wire fence, no major river to

GENETIC ENGINEERING

(Greenpeace)
9) The Independent (London) June 28, 2000, SECTION: COMMENT; 
Pg. 5 LENGTH: 1234 words HEADLINE: WHO'S AFRAID OF GENOMES 
AND GMOS? ; 'AT NO TIME IN MY LIFE CAN I REMEMBER SUCH AN 
ASSAULT ON SCIENTIFIC RATIONALISM AS IS HAPPENING NOW' 
BYLINE: David Aaronovitch BODY: YESTERDAY I took refuge 
from Celera Genomics in the cool of the English Heritage 

10) The Times (London) June 28, 2000, SECTION: Features LENGTH: 
1379 words HEADLINE: Man created hysteria - and it was not 
good BYLINE: Simon Jenkins BODY: God created Man in his own 
image. Man now creates Man in his own image. Man thus 
creates God. Man is God. The biotechnology industry 
yesterday announced a gene long known to the rest of the 

MILITARY

11) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 608 words HEADLINE: India 
makes test-ban promises at summit with EU BYLINE: Robert 
MacPherson DATELINE: LISBON, June 28 BODY: India and the 
European Union staged their first-ever summit Wednesday, 
with New Delhi making a firm promise to embrace the 
Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty as soon as it can. "The 

12) TASS LENGTH: 175 words HEADLINE: Russia's disarmament 
policy aims at destroying nukes. BYLINE: By Vadim Polischuk 
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, June 28 BODY: Russian permanent 
representative to the U. N. Sergei Lavrov, speaking on 
Tuesday at the session of the 2000 U. N. Disarmament 
Commission, said that "Russia sees full destruction of 

13) The Northern Echo June 28, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 3 LENGTH: 210 
words HEADLINE: SWITCH OF ROLE PROMPTS FRESH ANTI- NUCLEAR 
DEMOS BODY: ANTI- NUCLEAR campaigners are to hold a series 
of demonstrations to protest at plans for a new role for US 
bases. The US Government's National Missile Defence 
initiative would see Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, become a 

14) The Associated Press. June 28, 2000, LENGTH: 661 words 
HEADLINE: More than 100 protesters arrested as Navy pounds 
Vieques BYLINE: By MANUEL ERNESTO RIVERA, DATELINE: 
VIEQUES, Puerto Rico BODY: Navy ships and warplanes 
bombarded Vieques Island's disputed training ground with 
dummy shells and bombs after more than 100 Puerto Rican 

NUCLEAR POWER

15) HEADLINE: Scientist report on Ranger mine leak identified 
damage-Mirrar BODY: Fed: People fear eati ng Kakadu food 
due to mine leak - claim ASX Codes: era CANBERRA, June 28 
AAP - Contrary to government minister's statements, the 
supervising scientist's report into a leak at the Ranger 
uranium mine did identify damage to Kakadu National Park, 

(Greenpeace)
16) INTERVIEW-Tight vote seen on Sellafield, La Hague closure 
By Peter Starck COPENHAGEN, June 28 (Reuters) - Denmark and 
Ireland need two more votes at a 15-nation meeting in 
Copenhagen to force Britain and France to close spent 
nuclear fuel reprocessing plants, the environmental group 
Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Ministers from members of the 

(Greenpeace)
17) Greenpeace to repair webcam cable cut by French ROUEN, 
France, June 28 (Reuters) - Greenpeace struggled on 
Wednesday to repair a cable cut by French officials which 
had been transmitting pictures of radioactive waste 
discharges from the French coast to an environmental meeting
in Copenhagen. The environmental group said divers hoped to 

(Greenpeace)
18) AP Online June 28, 2000; LENGTH: 369 words HEADLINE: 
Greenpeace Holds Ground Off France DATELINE: CHERBOURG, 
France BODY: Greenpeace activists refused to give up a 
protest off the northern coast of France on Wednesday, 
despite the loss of a camera installed on an underwater 
pipe discharging waste from a nuclear reprocessing plant. 

OCEANS

19) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence June 28, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 32 LENGTH: 103 words HEADLINE: Whalers accuse 
Australia SOURCE: Herald Sun ABSTRACT: Norwegian whalers 
called on Australia to leave the International Whaling 
Commission. The call came on 27 June 2000 on the eve of a 
proposal for a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary being put to 

20) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 28, 2000, LENGTH: 150 words 
HEADLINE: Too many boats, not enough fish in Europe 
DATELINE: Brussels BODY: Europe's once-rich fishing waters 
are being depleted by too many boats trying to catch too 
few fish, the European Union's top fisheries official said 
Wednesday. Franz Fischler, E.U. Commissioner for 

21) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Fish farming a catastrophe 
for the environment: study DATELINE: PARIS, June 28 BODY: 
Fish farming, promoted as a smart way to help feed the 
world's surging population, is having a disastrous impact 
on the environment and on stocks of wild fish, according to 
research published Thursday. Aquaculture is a "contributing 

22) TASS LENGTH: 194 words HEADLINE: Japan fishermen chased out 
of banned zone. BYLINE: By Leonid Vinogradov DATELINE: 
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russian Far East, June 28 BODY: 
Russian borderguards from the Dzerzhinsky coastguard ship 
found 130 dead sea birds and two dead dolphines in nets of 
the Japanese fishing boat Dantei Maru-5. Japanese fishermen 

(Greenpeace)
23) PA 06/28 1623 UK CALLS FOR PERMANENT WORLDWIDE WHALING BAN 
By Amanda Brown, A permanent worldwide ban on all whaling 
will be urged by the UK at international talks in Adelaide 
next week, the Government said today. Junior Agriculture 
Minister Elliot Morley MP, who will attend the annual 
meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), 

OZONE

(Greenpeace)
24) LENGTH: 395 words HEADLINE: Oly: Coke comes clean: It's 
easy being green BODY: Oly Coke By Joe Hildebrand SYDNEY, 
June 28 AAP - Environmental group Greenpeace today claimed 
a victory against long-time foe Coca- Cola after the soft 
drink company announced its environment policy for the 
Sydney Olympics. Coca-Cola this morning made a worldwide 

TOXICS

25) PA 06/28 COMMONS CHEMICALS MPs DEMAND BAN ON SHEEP DIP 
CHEMICAL By Sian Clare, Political Staff, PA News The 
Government came under pressure today to act on growing 
evidence that organophosphates pose a serious threat to 
human health. A series of MPs highlighted reports that even 
low level exposure to OPs can damage the brain, nerves and 

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