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Global News Headlines 07/13
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Thursday, July 13, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
(Greenpeace)
1) 07/13 FEATURE-NZ prepares to cash in on trading in fresh air
By Lincoln Feast AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Reuters) - New
Zealand has often promoted its clean, green image --
verdant rolling hills, rushing rivers and mountains rising
into clear skies feature prominently in tourism brochures
and on product packaging. One beer ad even shows a busload
ENERGY
2) HEADLINE: Aust committee told wind power industry can create
15,000 jobs CANBERRA, July 13 AAP - Giving a leg up to the
Australian wind power industry would generate up to 15,000
jobs, a parliamentary committee was told today. Australian
Conservation Foundation representative Sam van Rood said
giving the wind power industry at least 30 per cent of the
3) 07/12 Solar-Powered Car Makes Cross-Canada Trip Cheap By
Natalie James TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian James Keirstead
is not praying for lower prices at the pump to finish his
4,030-mile drive across the country -- just a little sun.
Keirstead is driving a solar-powered car he and fellow
students from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario,
4) IRISH TIMES: HOME NEWS: WIND AND WAVE ENERGY REGULATIONS
ANNOUNCED 13-Jul-2000 BY LORNA SIGGINS, MARINE CORRESPONDENT
Wind and wave energy developers will have to apply for two
separate foreshore permits under new policy guidelines
published by the Minister for the Marine and Natural
Resources, Mr Fahey. However, no offshore wind or wave site
(Greenpeace)
5) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 104 words HEADLINE: Greenpeace
protests Russian pipeline pollution at Elf plant DATELINE:
LEUNA, Germany, July 13 BODY: Some 70 Greenpeace activists
blockaded an oil refinery in eastern Germany Thursday in
protest at pollution in Russia caused by leaking pipelines,
the environment campaign body said. In a statement,
6) Korea Times July 14, 2000, HEADLINE: Tidal Power Generation
to Be Introduced BODY: The government has decided to
introduce a new renewable energy source, providing an
epoch-making solution to the energy supply problem. (see
June 1, 5, 1999 editions of The Korea Times) Minister of
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MOMAF) Lee Hang-kyu said
7) The Guardian (London) July 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home
Pages, Pg. 13 HEADLINE: Firms 'knew of leaded petrol
dangers in 20s' BYLINE: Paul Brown Environment correspondent
BODY: Three of the world's largest companies were accused
this week of deliberately introducing lead into petrol in
the 1920s knowing it would poison millions of people and
8) Reuters Europeans ready to pay up for green energy - report
UK : July 13, 2000 LONDON - Over half of households in the
United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden are willing to pay more
for "green" energy, UK-based analysts Datamonitor said
yesterday. In a new report, entitled "Marketing Green
Energy in Europe", based on the results of interviews with
FORESTS
(Greenpeace)
9) San Jose Mercury 13/07/2000, US (Online) Greenpeace stage
timber protest in Spain, Portugal LISBON (Reuters) - Four
Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the masts of a
ship carrying timber from a threatened African rain forest
off the coast of Spain, the environmental group said
Thursday. Greenpeace forest campaigner Catherine Cotton
(Greenpeace)
10) AP Worldstream July 13, 2000; LENGTH: 309 words HEADLINE:
Greenpeace activists block ship hauling African timber to
Spain DATELINE: MADRID, Spain BODY: Six environmental
activists boarded a ship they accused of carrying 6,000
tons of timber from depleted Cameroon rainforests to Spain,
preventing the crew from unloading the logs Thursday,
GENETIC ENGINEERING
11) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 13, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 33 HEADLINE: Labelling should be modified
SOURCE: The Australian Financial Review BYLINE: Louise
Sylvan ABSTRACT: Under Australian Government proposals on
genetically modified (GM) foods, too much would slip
through the net. The Australian Consumers' Association
(Greenpeace)
12) EU moves to break gene crop deadlock By David Evans
BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - The European Commission said
on Thursday its current moratorium on new genetically
modified (GM) crops was illegal and proposed kick-starting
its stalled approval process. The Commission plans to apply
tough new rules governing the labelling and traceability of
13) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 13, 2000, HEADLINE: E.U. seeks
to restart authorisation of GM foods DATELINE: Brussels
BODY: The European Union's executive Commission Thursday
promised new labelling rules on genetically modified foods
in a bid to end years of intense public debate on the
safety of the products. Officials said the labelling
14) Brazil shortage to open door to Argentine GM corn By
Gilbert Le Gras BUENOS AIRES, July 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's
ban on genetically modified (GM) corn imports is bound to
buckle under domestic pressures from its own livestock
farmers, who are short of the feed grain, Argentine food
officials said on Thursday. Brazil produces more than 30
15) Times Colonist (Victoria) Wednesday, July 12, 2000 EDITION
Final Life PAGE D4 Vegetarian congress tackles GMOs TORONTO
(CP) -- Genetic modification of fruits and vegetables is a
pressing issue for vegetarians worldwide, says Peter
McQueen, president of the Toronto Vegetarian Association.
This week, the group is hosting the World Vegetarian
16) 07/13 EXP--Mighty Mice By SUSAN LINNEE Associated Press
Writer NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Nibbling away in boxes filled
with wood chips in a building overlooking the Ngong Hills,
thousands of Kenyan mice are ready for the most important
job of their lives. Now that scientists and researchers
have mapped about 97 percent of the human genome, they will
MILITARY
17) Reuters France floats idea of single Europe nuclear force
ITALY : July 13, 2000 ROME - French Foreign Minister Hubert
Vedrine said in an interview published yesterday that
Europe someday may need a single nuclear power to speak as
a deterrent force for whole continent. But in the interview
with Rome's La Repubblica newspaper, he said it was still
18) The Guardian (London) July 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Foreign Pages, Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Gibraltar protests at
nuclear sub repair erprotest in Gibraltarat leaking nuclear
ship BYLINE: Agencies in Gibraltar BODY: Hundreds of people
marched to the governor's residence in Gibraltar yesterday
in protest at the presence of a nuclear submarine awaiting
NUCLEAR POWER
19) The Canberra Times July 13, 2000, SECTION: A;10 HEADLINE:
Handling of nuclear issues dishonest; JIM GREEN says the
Federal Government is irresponsible to be planning a new
reactor, and foresees conflict between it and South
Australia over proposals for a waste dump. BODY: NICK
MINCHIN, the federal Minister for Industry, Science and
(Greenpeace)
20) HEADLINE: NSW: Controversy over planned replacement nuclear
plant LENGTH: 626 words BODY: Nuclear Sign By Alex Tilbury
SYDNEY, July 13 AAP - Contracts to build a controversial
new nuclear reactor in Sydney were signed today between
Australia and the winning Argentinian tenderer, splitting
more than atoms in the process. The sealing of the deal to
21) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 13, 2000, HEADLINE: Bulgaria
to close first two Kosloduj reactors in 2002 DATELINE: Sofia
BODY: Bulgaria decided Thursday to close down the first two
of the four antiquated, Soviet-style reactor blocks at the
Kosloduj nuclear power plant on the river Danube in 2002.
The decision was in line with an agreement with the
22) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 13, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 32
HEADLINE: City: Questor Column: Bruce lifts our nuclear
family BYLINE: Edited by GEORGE TREFGARNE BODY: BRITISH
Energy has lost its title as least-favourite utility stock
since its decision to enter the Canadian electricity
generation market on Tuesday. The pounds 279m 18-year lease
(Greenpeace)
23) 07/13 DJ Czech Police Detain Activists Protesting Nuclear
Plant PRAGUE (AP)--Police detained dozens of activists
Thursday during a protest directed against the activation
of a nuclear plant. Vaclav Vasku, spokesman for the Czech
branch of Greenpeace, said that the 40 Greenpeace members
from five European countries, were detained while protesting
(Greenpeace)
24) BBC Online You are in: World: Europe 13 July, 2000, Arrests
at Czech anti-nuclear protest Two nuclear inspectors in the
Czech Republic have symbolically offered themselves for
execution, if their assertions that a new power station is
safe are proved wrong. The inspectors placed a chopping
block in front of their offices in Prague and offered to
25) The Scotsman July 13, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 3 HEADLINE:
DOUNREAY SAFETY DEVICE FOUND SWITCHED OFF BYLINE: John Ross
BODY: RADIATION monitoring equipment designed to warn
against leaks at the Dounreay nuclear plant was found
switched off, it was revealed yesterday. International
inspectors discovered that the power supply to an air
(Greenpeace)
26) DAILY MAIL (London) July 12, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 23 LENGTH:
560 words HEADLINE: GBP 50m nuclear flaw; Taxpayers foot
the bill as deal is reached to return Sellafield fuel from
Japan BYLINE: Kate Hurry BODY: BRITAIN has agreed to ship
back flawed nuclear fuel from Japan following a debacle
which has left the industry's reputation in tatters and
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
27) Marine world's Forrest Gump looks to G8 for help By Jon
Herskovitz NAGO, Japan, July 13 (Reuters) - It is shy, ugly
and even a bit dense, but at least it has some friends.
World leaders gathering in this southern Japanese island
next week are unlikely to know much about the dugong, a
pasty white herbivore living in the warm seas around
28) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: South Africa smitten by
stars of biggest penguin rescue ever DATELINE: CAPE TOWN,
July 13 BODY: Three penguins called Peter, Percy and Pamela
have become heroes in South Africa after being rescued from
an oil spill and swimming hundreds of miles back towards
their home through shark-infested waters. The trio give a
29) WORLD NEWS: ASIA-PACIFIC: Sharks set to sport a new image
Financial Times ; 12-Jul-2000 By VIRGINIA MARSH Feared,
reviled and misunderstood for generations, sharks might be
swimming towards rehabilitation. Twenty-five years after
the release of Jaws, Peter Benchley, the author of the
blockbuster that put millions around the world off swimming
30) 07/13 Orca Whales Blamed for Aleutian Sea Otter Decline By
Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sea otters, the
cuddly animals beloved by tourists but hunted nearly to
extinction by Russian and American fur traders centuries
ago, are again vanishing from Alaska's Aleutian islands.
This time the culprit appears to be orca whales, which
OZONE
31) PROGRESS ON OZONE PROTECTION ONLY THE BEGINNING GENEVA,
Switzerland, July 12, 2000 (ENS) - Developed countries have
made impressive progress over the past decade in phasing
out ozone destroying chemicals. Now they must help
developing countries do the same, said United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Klaus
TOXICS
32) AP Worldstream July 13, 2000; HEADLINE: India's largest
state bans plastic bags DATELINE: LUCKNOW, India BODY:
India's largest state has banned plastic bags, a decision
that is drawing protests from businesses, an official said
Thursday. Given India's poor garbage collection facilities,
tons of plastic bags litter the roads. Thousands of cows
33) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japanese exposed to heavy
dioxin doses in dismantling incinerator DATELINE: TOKYO,
July 13 BODY: Workers in Japan dismantling an incinerator
were exposed to extremely high levels of cancer-causing
dioxins despite airtight protective measures, officials
said Thursday. Blood samples from one man, in his 20's,
34) The Boston Globe July 13, 2000, THIRD EDITION SECTION:
METRO/REGION; Pg. B2 HEADLINE: MASS. OFFICIALS VOW SHARP
REDUCTIONS IN MERCURY LEVELS BYLINE: By Beth Daley, Globe
staff BODY: On the heels of a landmark report that says
60,000 US children a year may suffer from mercury
poisoning, the state pledged yesterday to sharply reduce
35) The Washington Post July 13, 2000, Final Edition SECTION: A
SECTION; Pg. A01 HEADLINE: Cancer Study Deemphasizes Genes'
Role; Environmental, Behavioral Factors Are Predominant
BYLINE: Rick Weiss , Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: The
vast majority of cancers are caused not by inherited
defects in people's genes, as many have come to believe in
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
36) APwo 07/13 Better Protection Required For Environment
Agency,...
A couple of months ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin
abolished his country's environmental protection agency-a
decision that bodes ill not only for the people and
ecosystems of one of the world's most polluted nations, but
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