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Friday, June 30, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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(Greenpeace)
1) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence June 30, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 60 LENGTH: 111 words HEADLINE: ASX rejects
Greenpeace claims against shale miners SOURCE: The
Australian Financial Review BYLINE: Garry West ABSTRACT:
Greenpeace has two shale oil companies in its sights over
the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on profits. The
ENERGY
2) Reuters: Rio mayor slaps fine on Brazil oil giant for spill
BRAZIL : June 30, 2000 RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's state oil
giant, Petrobras , was fined about $275,000 by the mayor of
Rio de Janeiro for polluting the city's scenic bay with
crude oil in its second leak there this year. Earlier in
the week, Petrobras admitted responsibility for a leak of
3) Reuters: Norway to form agency for energy conservation
NORWAY : June 30, 2000 OSLO - Norway's Oil and Energy
Ministry proposed yesterday to set up a new agency for
energy conservation and to stimulate more efficient energy
production. The Ministry said in a statement it aimed to
upgrade Norwegian energy administration and to focus more
4) Business Day (South Africa) June 30, 2000 SECTION:
National; Pg. 6 HEADLINE: PENGUIN RESCUE A MAMMOTH TASK
SANDF to play larger role in moving birds from Dassen
Island BYLINE: Larry Claasen KEYWORD: Oil, Pollution BODY:
SANDF to play larger role in moving birds from Dassen Island
THE attempt to move 56000 penguins threatened by oil
5) The Economist July 01, 2000 , U.S. Edition SECTION:
Oil-spill remediation HEADLINE: Experienced cleaner required
BODY: WHEN sticky, black crude oil from a tanker spill at
sea reaches the shore and begins to foul sandy beaches and
clog rock pools, the first instinct of the authorities is
often to try to remove it quickly. Unfortunately, the
6) The Economist July 01, 2000 , U.S. Edition HEADLINE:
Selling fuel cells BODY: IT LOOKS increasingly likely that
the eventual replacement for the internal-combustion engine
in motor vehicles will be the fuel cell. This is a device
that reacts hydrogen and oxygen together to release
electrical energy. Environmentalists like it, because its
7) The Washington Times June 30, 2000, Final Edition SECTION:
PART A; Pg. A1 HEADLINE: Gore resists calls to halt oil
drilling in Colombia; Thousands of Indians threaten suicide
BYLINE: Bill Sammon; THE WASHINGTON TIMES BODY: Vice
President Al Gore, who controls at least $500,000 worth of
stock in Occidental Petroleum, has ignored pleas from
FORESTS
8) National Post (formerly The Financial Post) July 01, 2000
Saturday SECTION: NATIONAL POST BUSINESS MAGAZINE; Pg. 16,
Currency: The Business of Change HEADLINE: Water- logged
BYLINE: Andreas Maierhofer BODY: As the cry against
deforestation reaches a fever pitch, Gary Ackles thinks he
may have found a profitable solution: underwater forestry.
(Greenpeace)
9) Financial Times ; 29-Jun-2000 (Online) COMMODITIES &
AGRICULTURE: British Columbian forests show a tinge of
green: Confrontation with environmental activists has given
way to negotiation on product certification, writes Scott
Morrison: 700 words The forests of British Columbia have
been relatively quiet in recent months, a sharp contrast to
10) New Straits Times (Malaysia) June 30, 2000 SECTION:
National; Pg. 16 HEADLINE: ITTO recommendation resulted in
over 10,000 losing their jobs BYLINE: All reports on "First
Sarawak-Sabah Environmental Convention 2000" by Sulok Tawie
BODY: MORE than 10,000 forest workers, with a total income
of RM140 million were retrenched when the Sarawak Government
(Greenpeace)
11) Greenpeace says a fifth of Russian logging illegal MOSCOW,
June 30 (Reuters) - The environmental campaigning group
Greenpeace said on Friday it estimated that around 20
percent of timber logged in Russia was illegal. Timber is
one of Russia's top five exports, in a bracket of natural
resources including oil, gas, minerals and metals which
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(Greenpeace)
12) Brazil gears up for key ruling on GM corn imports By Jeremy
Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, June 29 (Reuters) - A Brazilian
government commission should rule this week on the safety
of importing genetically-modified corn, possibly paving the
way for a major policy shift on GM foods from South
America's farming giant. The National Biosafety Commission
(Greenpeace)
13) Financial Times ; 30-Jun-2000 (Online) COMMODITIES &
AGRICULTURE: Soyabean setback for Monsanto 310 words By
RAYMOND COLITT Monsanto, the international agriculture and
biotechnology group, suffered a further setback in its
efforts to introduce genetically-modified soyabean seeds to
Brazil, the world's second largest soyabean producer. A
14) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 30, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 14
HEADLINE: Yesterday in Parliament: Cross-party calm on BSE
discovery Agriculture BYLINE: By Michael Kallenbach BODY:
THERE was cross party support in the Commons after the
Government gave assurances that a cow suffering from bovine
spongiform encephalopathy did not pose a danger to food
15) The Economist July 01, 2000 , U.S. Edition HEADLINE: Who
owns your genes? HIGHLIGHT: Not all the questions raised by
genomics are scientific ones BODY: THE "nature of human
nature" question, traditionally the province of
philosophers, may well end up being answered by biologists.
But philosophy need not feel slighted, for genomics is
16) The Guardian (London) June 30, 2000 SECTION: Guardian City
Pages, Pg. 21 HEADLINE: Appeal court overturns pounds 115m
Monsanto award BYLINE: Jane Martinson in New York BODY:
Monsanto, the controversial American biotechnology company,
claimed what it called an important legal victory in the
United States yesterday. An appeal court overturned a
MILITARY
17) TASS HEADLINE: Kazakhstan launches facility to monitor
nuclear blasts BYLINE: By Oral Karpishev DATELINE: ASTANA,
June 30 BODY: An international seismic station (PS-23),
capable of monitoring any nuclear explosion on the planet,
was commissioned in eastern Kazakhstan in the framework of
the comprehensive test ban project. Tass learned on Friday
18) The Times (London) June 30, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: Commandos take Russian power stations BYLINE:
Alice Lagnado in Moscow BODY: Commandos from a Siberian
nuclear ballistic missile base have taken over four power
stations after the local electricity company threatened to
cut off supplies over an unpaid bill of Pounds 118,500.
19) The Washington Times June 30, 2000, Final Edition SECTION:
PART A; Pg. A1 HEADLINE: Russia sells missile technology to
N. Korea BYLINE: Bill Gertz; THE WASHINGTON TIMES BODY:
Russia is selling missile technology and components to North
Korea and nuclear weapons components to Iran, The Washington
Times has learned. Moscow's latest weapons proliferation
20) Ukraine to recycle fuel from nuclear missiles KIEV, June 30
(Reuters) - Ukraine is planning to recycle the rocket fuel
from deteriorating Soviet-era nuclear-capable missiles and
convert it into industrial-grade explosives, the official
DINAU news agency said on Friday. Ukraine inherited 54
SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles after the
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
21) French nuke waste pipe reopened in Greenpeace tussle ROUEN,
France, June 29 (Reuters) - French nuclear fuels group
Cogema said on Thursday it had removed a device Greenpeace
used to block an undersea pipe the environmental group says
was used to pour radioactive waste into the English Channel.
Greenpeace closed a capping device on one of the pipe's
22) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) June 30, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Water leak found at nuclear plant BYLINE: Yomiuri
DATELINE: NIIGATA BODY: Water was found to have leaked onto
the floor of the No. 2 reactor at a nuclear power plant
located between Kashiwazaki and Kariwamura in Niigata
Prefecture midmorning Thursday, plant officials said. About
23) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 30, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 33
HEADLINE: City: Jaguar man to take BNFL private by 2002
BYLINE: By Sophie Barker BODY: BNFL yesterday appointed
former Jaguar finance director John Edwards as its new
finance director, charged with taking the company to
partial privatisation by 2002. The move is the latest stage
(Greenpeace)
24) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 30, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 11
LENGTH: 155 words HEADLINE: News: Britain faces call to end
nuclear reprocessing BYLINE: By Charles Clover Environment
Editor BODY: TWELVE European countries called for Britain
and France to give up nuclear reprocessing at a meeting of
the Ospar convention on pollution in Copenhagen yesterday.
(Greenpeace)
25) The Guardian (London) June 30, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home
Pages, Pg. 6 LENGTH: 432 words HEADLINE: Europe votes for a
stop in nuclear waste reprocessing BYLINE: Paul Brown
Environment correspondent BODY: Paul Brown Environment
correspondent Britain and France were told yesterday by 12
European neighbours to end reprocessing and so prevent
26) M2 PRESSWIRE June 30, 2000 HEADLINE: UK GOVERNMENT Sheep
monitoring in Cumbria starts this month BODY: Summer
monitoring of sheep for the Food Standards Agency on
Cumbrian farms still under post-Chernobyl restrictions
starts this month. The number of farms under restriction in
Cumbria is currently nine, covering approximately 11,500
27) 06/30 Wildfires Spotlight Nuke Safety By DAVID FOSTER
Associated Press Writer RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- "One
wonders," said Mike Vowels, frowning as he glanced past his
son's Little League game toward the smoke-stained sky to
the north. As a wildfire raced across the sagebrush flats
of the Hanford nuclear reservation this week, Vowels' first
28) APO 06/29 Soil Poses Risk at Hanford By The Associated Press
The wildfire at the Hanford nuclear complex might spread
radioactivity downwind if it reaches contaminated material,
a health official says. Radioactive particles and vapor
might rise into the air and blow off the reservation, said
Al Conklin, manager of the air emissions and defense waste
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
29) HEADLINE: Japan wants Greenpeace out of whaling commission
meeting LENGTH: 167 words BODY: ADELAIDE, June 30 AAP -
Japan wants Greenpeace banned from next week's
International Whaling Commission meeting in Adelaide.
Japan's Commissioner to the IWC, Minoru Morimoto, said
today he would ask for Greenpeace to be stripped of observer
30) BBC Online You are in: Sci/Tech Friday, 30 June, 2000,
Battle royal erupts on whaling End of the chase for one
Norwegian minke By environment correspondent Alex Kirby
Whales are making waves once again, with the Australian
city of Adelaide hosting the annual meeting of the
International Whaling Commission (IWC). The meeting, from 3
(Greenpeace)
31) HEADLINE: SA: Japan running scared on whaling issues, says
Greenpeace LENGTH: 361 words BODY: Whaling Greenpeace
Nightlead ADELAIDE, June 30 AAP - Japan's attempt to ban
Greenpeace from next week's International Whaling
Commission meeting smacked of desperation, the
environmental activist group said today. Japan's
32) APwo 06/29 'Kurma Asih': Turtle defenders on patrol,
JAKARTA ...
PRANCAK BEACH, Bali: Only 90 kilometers down the
south-west coast from the main tourist resorts of the
island of Bali lies the little village of Prancak. The
village head, Wayan Tirta, is a turtle hunter--but he is
(Greenpeace)
33) Press Association Newsfile June 28, 2000, HEADLINE: UK
CALLS FOR PERMANENT WORLDWIDE WHALING BAN BYLINE: Amanda
Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News BODY: 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,
TOXICS
34) HEADLINE: Cyanide spill off Aust gold mine in PNG BODY:
Lihir spill By Michael Smith SYDNEY, June 30 AAP - Cyanide
has leaked off the coast of Papua New Guinea from an
Australian-owned gold mine. Local authorities were today
investigating the spill at Lihir Gold Ltd's mine on Lihir
Island which occurred on Wednesday. Lihir said the spill
X-OTHER-X
35) The Guardian (London) June 30, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Foreign Pages, Pg. 12 HEADLINE: Global struggle in rural
France BYLINE: Jon Henley in Paris BODY: Jon Henley in Paris
The small southern French town of Millau (population 20,000)
braced itself yesterday for the imminent arrival of up to
30,000 assorted ecologists, farmers and anti-capitalists
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