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Monday, July 24, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Heatwave kills 35 tonnes of
fish in Ukraine as Russian forests burn DATELINE: KIEV,
July 24 BODY: Ukrainian authorities have collected nearly
35 tonnes of fish killed by a heatwave from the shores of
the Sea of Azov in the south of the country, the
emergencies ministry said Monday. "The high temperatures,
2) BBC Online You are in: Sci/Tech Monday, 24 July, 2000,
Amphibian decline 'has many causes' The amphibian decline
is happening worldwide By environment correspondent Alex
Kirby The decline and even disappearance of frogs, toads,
newts and salamanders across the world has no single cause,
a US biologist says. Dr Ashley Mattoon, of the Worldwatch
(Greenpeace)
3) Reuters U.S. says Kyoto too tough without emissions trade
UK: July 24, 2000 LONDON - The chief U.S. negotiator on
climate change said that the United States was unlikely to
meet its target to slash greenhouse gas emissions as laid
down in Kyoto in 1997 without relying heavily on market
mechanisms. At a U.S. Embassy briefing in London, Under
4) BBC Online You are in: World: Americas Saturday, 22 July,
2000, US warning on pollution The US wants to buy emission
credits to offset pollution The chief American negotiator
on climate change has admitted for the first time that the
United States is unlikely to meet its commitment to cut
greenhouse gas emissions, without buying other countries'
ENERGY
(Greenpeace)
5) Sunday Times (London) July 23, 2000, SECTION: Features
LENGTH: 1435 words HEADLINE: The greenest craft under the
sun BYLINE: Jon Pratty BODY: An Australian doctor has
harnessed the sun's rays to create the perfect boat for a
green city. Jon Pratty hitches a ride. It's a well-
practised routine for the sunburnt, salt-sprayed ferrymen of
(Greenpeace)
6) AP Worldstream July 24, 2000; LENGTH: 204 words HEADLINE:
AP Photo MOSB101 DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: The Russian chapter
of the Greenpeace environmental movement on Monday assailed
what it called western oil companies' double standards in
environmental protection. About a dozen demonstrators held
a protest outside the Moscow offices of the French
7) OTC 07/24 Janet Launches Luweero Solar Power Equipment
Kampala (New Vision, July 24, 2000) - MRS Janet Museveni,
wife of the President, has called for the creation of local
capacity to manage solar systems as a way of ensuring
government goal to electrify rural areas. She was speaking
in Luweero on Friday. She said that government should look
(Greenpeace)
8) BP goes greener with ``beyond petroleum'' rebrand By
William Maclean LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - Old economy
stalwart BP Amoco unveiled a new "green" global brand image
and an online revamp of its gasoline stations on Monday,
portraying itself as the supermajor of choice for the
environmentally-aware motorist. "Beyond Petroleum -- BP"
FORESTS
9) THE JAKARTA POST July 24, 2000 HEADLINE: Log thefts rise 10
times BODY: SEMARANG: Within the past three years, theft of
teakwood across Central Java has multiplied 10 times from
120,000 cubic meters in 1997 to 1.2 million cubic meters in
1999, an official said. Spokesman for the state forestry
company Perum Perhutani in Central Java, Kamil Wirasuparta,
(Greenpeace)
10) 07/24 Greenpeace G-8 Protesters Released TOKYO (AP) -- Four
Greenpeace activists were released Monday, three days after
authorities arrested them on suspicion of entering an
off-limits area during a summit of industrialized nations
in southwestern Japan. Prosecutors on the island of
Okinawa, about 1,000 miles southwest of Tokyo, said they
(Greenpeace)
11) The Guardian (London) July 24, 2000 SECTION: Guardian City
Pages, Pg. 20 LENGTH: 372 words HEADLINE: New drive to
fight illegal logging BODY: Leaders of the world's most
powerful nations moved yesterday to tighten up the Dollars
70bn global timber trade in a renewed drive to combat
illegal logging and protect the eco-system, writes Jonathan
(Greenpeace)
12) The Observer July 23, 2000 SECTION: Observer News Pages,
Pg. 3 LENGTH: 1329 words HEADLINE: Buy a chair on the high
street and you put the Amazon at risk: Activists track
illegal timber exports to British shops and builders
BYLINE: Anthony Browne, Environment Correspondent BODY: THE
BRITISH Museum and world-famous furniture store Heals are
GENETIC ENGINEERING
13) Australians shun GM food, labelling decision nears
CANBERRA, July 24 (Reuters) - An overwhelming number of
Australians said they are concerned about genetically
modified (GM) food and most would avoid eating it if they
could, a national opinion poll showed on Monday. The AC
Nielson poll, released days before Australia and New
14) Reuters: Crop group condemns Australian state GM moratorium
AUSTRALIA : July 24, 2000 CANBERRA - Australia's national
association for crop production and animal health, Avcare,
has called on the Tasmanian government to withdraw a
12-month moratorium on field trials of genetically modified
organisms. The state governemnt of Tasmania has pre-empted
15) The Ottawa Citizen July 24, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A3
HEADLINE: Canadians not afraid of 'Frankenfood': Potential
benefits of biotechnology worth some risk, federal poll
finds BYLINE: Kathryn May BODY: Canadians are prepared to
accept ''unintended'' risks and surrender ethical concerns
about advances in biotechnology as long as they lead to
(Greenpeace)
16) Monsanto wins British legal tussle over GM LONDON, July 24
(Reuters) - A group of British environmental activists lost
the final round of its legal battle with genetic crop
specialists Monsanto Co in a court decision made public on
Monday. In November last year, Monsanto won a permanent
court order banning members of the action group GenetiX
17) The Scotsman July 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 8 HEADLINE: BLAIR
BACKS CLINTON'S TASTE FOR GM PRODUCTS BYLINE: Gary Duncan
In Okinawa, Japan BODY: TONY Blair sided with Bill Clinton
and the United States against fellow European leaders at
the weekend to resist demands at the G8 summit for the
toughest possible "safety first" regime to control
18) BusinessWorld July 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 21 HEADLINE: Use
of crop biotechnology endorsed BODY: WASHINGTON DC - The US
National Academy of Sciences and six foreign academies of
science have released a position paper urging the increased
development and use of agricultural biotechnology to help
resolve problems of hunger and poverty in developing
19) The Independent (London) July 24, 2000, SECTION: FOREIGN
NEWS; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: G8 MEETING: CLINTON ATTACKS EUROPE
FOR MOVING TOO SLOWLY OVER 'SAFE' GM FOOD BYLINE: Richard
Lloyd Parry BODY: PRESIDENT BILL Clinton criticised
European leaders for moving too slowly on the promotion of
genetically modified foods yesterday, after three days of
20) The San Francisco Chronicle JULY 24, 2000, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. C1; BIOSCOPE HEADLINE: Advisory
Forum Hopes to Prevent Trade War Over Frankenfoods';
Controversy erupts over appointee's ties to Monsanto
BYLINE: Tom Abate BODY: Leading consumer and environmental
groups are fuming because the Clinton administration has
MILITARY
21) 51% of A-bomb survivors see no end to nukes in ...
TOKYO, July 24 (Kyodo) -- More than half of the survivors
of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
who responded to a recent Kyodo News poll said they expect
nuclear weapons will not be abolished in the 21st century.
According to the poll, covering 239 people aged from 54 to
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
22) IPR Strategic Business Information Database July 23, 2000
LENGTH: 106 words HEADLINE: CZECH POLICE DETAIN
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS BODY: Police on 13 July detained 33
activists of the Greenpeace movement who were demonstrating
in Prague against the loading of nuclear fuel at the
Temelin power plant earlier this month. The detained
23) 07/23 TEPCO Shuts Down Another Nuke Reactor After Leak
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's largest power utility said on
Monday it has shut down a second reactor at a nuclear plant
155 miles northeast of Tokyo after an oil leak was detected.
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc (9501.T) said it shut down the
784-megawatt No.2 reactor at its Fukushima nuclear power
24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japan admits public fears
over nuclear energy amid fresh incident BYLINE: Kiriko
Nishiyama DATELINE: TOKYO, July 24 BODY: Japan's
authorities admitted high levels of public anxiety about
their accident-prone nuclear energy programme Monday, as
one plant suffered its second mishap in three days. The
25) Mainichi Daily News July 24, 2000, SECTION: Page 12;
DOMESTIC HEADLINE: Shizuoka town off quake monitor zone
BODY: Mainichi Shimbun HAMAOKA, Shizuoka -- Despite being
located in a major earthquake zone, the nuclear industry
town of Hamaoka has been excluded from the Meteorological
Agency's quake monitoring network. Exclusion from the
(Greenpeace)
26) Turk PM says could scrap nuke plant tender - paper By Ercan
Ersoy ANKARA, July 24 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister
Bulent Ecevit was quoted on Monday as saying a tender for
the country's first nuclear power plant project could be
cancelled because of worries over nuclear energy. With the
deadline for bids to build the multi-billion-dollar tender
27) BBC Online You are in: World: Europe Monday, 24 July, 2000,
New doubt over Turkish nuclear plan Opponents say
earthquake zones lie perilously close Turkish plans to
build a nuclear power plant near a Mediterranean earthquake
zone have been thrown into doubt after the country's prime
minister said he was considering scrapping the project. The
28) The Scotsman July 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 11 HEADLINE: NEW
FIND REVIVES FEARS ON DOUNREAY BYLINE: John Ross BODY: LAST
week's discovery of yet another radioactive particle on
Sandside beach near Dounreay sparked off a fresh row over
the level of threat posed to the public by the
contamination. No sooner had the UK Atomic Energy Authority
OCEANS
29) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Oil slick brushes Elba
island, but little pollution DATELINE: ELBA, Italy, July 24
BODY: An oil slick off Italy's Tuscany coast brushed the
island of Elba overnight Sunday, but officials reported
little pollution on the designated national park and whale
sanctuary. Giuseppe Tonelle, the president of the National
30) Business Day (South Africa) July 24, 2000 SECTION:
National; Pg. 4 HEADLINE: COASTAL CLEAN UP AMOUNTS TO R90M
BYLINE: Louise Cook BODY: THE cost of cleaning up the oil
after the recent sinking of the ore carrier Treasure off
the Cape coast has been estimated at R90m, while animal
welfare organisations project the cost of the rescue
31) The Times (London) July 24, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: Satellite keeps an eye on penguin Pam BYLINE:
Michael Dynes in Johannesburg BODY: South Africans are
keenly awaiting the arrival of Pamela, an African penguin
who is braving sharks, seals and squid fishermen armed with
shotguns to return to her breeding ground off the coast of
(Greenpeace)
32) Sunday Express July 23, 2000 LENGTH: 504 words HEADLINE:
THE GREAT OIL MASSACRE BYLINE: Sea slicks kill 500,000
birds in 18 months By Lucy Mcdonald BODY: OIL spills have
claimed the lives of up to half a million birds in just 18
months. Conservationists, concerned that there is now a
spill somewhere in the world every three days, called last
TOXICS
33) Belfast News Letter July 24, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 10
HEADLINE: REWARD OFFERED OVER FISH KILL BODY: ANGLERS in Co
Londonderry are today offering a pounds 1,000 reward for
information which could help solve the mystery of pollution
which killed around one million fish. Moyola Angling
Association are devastated by the annihilation of the
34) The Independent (London) July 24, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9
HEADLINE: INJURY CLAIMS: TIN MEN OF HULL HIT BY CANCERS SUE
RIO TINTO OVER 'POISON PLANT'; WORKERS FIGHTING A LEGAL
BATTLE AGAINST RIO TINTO FEEL A BREAKTHROUGH IS NEAR, BUT
SOME MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE THEIR CASE RESOLVED BYLINE: Ian
Herbert Northern Correspondent BODY: IT IS a matter of some
X-OTHER-X
35) The Independent (London) July 24, 2000, SECTION: FOREIGN
NEWS; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: G8 MEETING: POVERTY OF IDEAS AT
'LOBSTER AND CAVIAR' SUMMIT; AFTER THREE DAYS OF TALKING
AND EATING, THE RICH NATIONS' FINAL COMMUNIQUE SHOWS A
RETREAT FROM THE DEBT RELIEF PLEDGES OF A YEAR AGO BYLINE:
Richard Lloyd Parry In Nago, Okinawa BODY: A SUMMIT needs a
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