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Tuesday, July 25, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) WA rules out tidal project, Energy Equity proposal affirmed 
BODY: Western Aust Govt rules out tidal power project at 
Derby By Selina Day PERTH, July 25 AAP - Gas-fired power is 
a step closer in Western Australia's West Kimberley after 
the state government today eliminated the option of a tidal 
power project at Derby to supply electricity to the region. 

2) New Energy Sources Developed In China, XINHUA BEIJING, July 
24 (Xinhua)--China has worked out a ambitious plan to 
develop new and renewable energy sources in the next 15 
years, according to today's China Coal Industry News. The 
newspaper said by 2015 China will develop new and renewable 
sources of energy equal to amounting to 43 million tons of 

3) AP Worldstream July 25, 2000 HEADLINE: 40 dead in latest 
Nigerian pipeline fire, state paper says DATELINE: LAGOS, 
Nigeria BODY: Another oil pipeline fire has erupted in the 
Niger Delta, killing 40 people in an area where similar 
blazes recently have killed hundreds, the government-owned 
newspaper said Tuesday. The Daily Times reported that the 

4) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 25, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 28 
LENGTH: 238 words HEADLINE: City: Government sets pounds 
30m emissions incentive BYLINE: By Sophie Barker BODY: THE 
Government yesterday committed pounds 30m to "kick start" 
companies into entering its new carbon emissions trading 
scheme. The cash, part of last week's spending review, will 

(Greenpeace)
5) The Guardian (London) July 25, 2000 SECTION: Guardian City 
Pages, Pg. 24 HEADLINE: BP rebrands on a global scale; Oil 
Group Seeks To Go Green BYLINE: Terry Macalister and 
Eleanor Cross BODY: Terry Macalister and Eleanor Cross BP 
Amoco yesterday sought to ditch its image as an 
old-fashioned oil group and rebrand itself as an 

(Greenpeace)
6) Anchorage Daily News July 24, 2000, FINAL EDITION SECTION: 
METRO, Pg. 1C LENGTH: 1862 words HEADLINE: ICE FLOES 
FRUSTRATE OIL PLANS; STRATEGIES TESTED FOR BEAUFORT SPILLS 
BYLINE: Douglas Fischer; Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 
DATELINE: Aboard The Arctic Endeavor BODY: In the calm, 
ice-choked waters of the Beaufort Sea, about nine miles 

7) UPDATE 1-Bush-Cheney is U.S. oil industry dream team By Tom 
Doggett WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. oil 
industry may have found its dream team with Republican 
presidential candidate George W. Bush's pick of Dick Cheney 
as his vice presidential running mate. American energy 
firms could get a break from environmental regulations and 

8) UPDATE 1-EPA, oil firms reach record deal to fix refineries 
By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - In the 
largest agreement ever reached with oil refiners for clean 
air violations, BP Amoco <BPA.L> and privately-held Koch 
Petroleum Group 1/8KOCH.UL3/8 will pay $14.5 million in 
fines and spend $580 million in facility upgrades, the 

FORESTS

9) Indonesia to halt operations at 12 firms over smog JAKARTA, 
July 25 (Reuters) - Indonesia will soon order 12 plantation 
firms on Sumatra to stop operating after accusations they 
started forest fires which spread smog to parts of 
Southeast Asia, a government official said on Tuesday. "We 
will soon order 12 plantation firms in North Sumatra and 

10) 07/25 Log thefts rise 10 times, JAKARTA POST 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, said as 

11) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Indonesia cracks down on 
haze-generating slash and burn farming DATELINE: JAKARTA, 
July 25 BODY: Indonesia will halt the operations of 12 
plantation companies for using haze-generating slash and 
burn methods to clear their land, an official said Tuesday. 
Forestry and Plantations Ministry secretary general Suripto 

12) The Christian Science Monitor July 25, 2000, SECTION: 
WORLD; ENVIRONMENT; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Legal cold water on 
Indonesia's forest -fire haze BYLINE: Chris McCall, Special 
to The Christian Science Monitor DATELINE: RIAU, INDONESIA 
HIGHLIGHT: Since early July, smog has blanketed parts of 
Southeast Asia. Riau province wants to prosecute the 

13) Business Times (Malaysia) July 25, 2000 SECTION: Nation; 
Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Ensuring loggers conform to sustainable 
forestry guidelines BYLINE: By Kamarul Yunus BODY: TIMBER 
concessionaires have been told to sub-contract their 
licences only to loggers registered with the Primary 
Industries Ministry, a requirement which will be 

14) 07/25 Timber Giant To Suspend Clear-Cuts SACRAMENTO, Calif. 
(AP) -- The state's largest timber company said it will 
temporarily stop clear-cutting near Calaveras Big Tree 
State Park while it tries to work out problems with 
residents. Calaveras County residents fear clear-cutting by 
Sierra Pacific Industries threatens tourism. They say they 

(Greenpeace)
15) Savannah Morning News Tuesday, July 25, 2000, US (Online) 
International protesters arrested Greenpeace is trying to 
protect the Amazon rainforest. By Gail Krueger Savannah 
Morning News Seven Greenpeace activists were arrested and 
some were threatened with deportation Monday after five of 
them boarded a ship carrying what they say was a cargo that 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

16) Alarm over GM seed mix-up BODY: SYDNEY, July 25 AAP - 
Sixty-nine tonnes of genetically modified cotton seed was 
mixed with a standard seed type, the federal government's 
interim gene technology watchdog has confirmed. The Sydney 
Morning Herald reported today that the giant Monsanto 
company had warned the body of the contamination involving 

17) Fed: Consumers demanding GMO food labelling BODY: CANBERRA, 
July 25 AAP - Consumers were demanding full and frank 
labelling of foods with genetically modified inputs, the 
Australian Consumers Association said today. Association 
spokeswoman Gail Kennedy said today consumers deserved full 
labelling of foods to help them make an informed choice. 

18) Fed: Scaremongering over GMOs leaving Australia behind BODY:
CANBERRA, July 25 AAP - Australian agriculture faced being 
left behind because of the scaremongering and outright lies 
over gene technology, a conference was told today. Grain 
Biotech Australia chief executive Ian Edwards told the 
Bureau of Rural Sciences conference in Canberra that some 

19) The Canberra Times July 25, 2000, Tuesday Edition SECTION: 
A;2 HEADLINE: ACT may soften on GM food labelling BYLINE: 
HONEY WEBB BODY: ACT Health Minister Michael Moore has 
indicated he could compromise on his support for a strict 
labelling regime for genetically modified foods. Mr Moore 
said the ACT remained committed to comprehensive labels for 

(Greenpeace)
20) Knight Ridder Washington Bureau July 25, 2000, Tuesday 
SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K5356 LENGTH: 1231 
words HEADLINE: Global battle over genetically modified 
food spills into Brazil, South America's largest economy 
BYLINE: By Kevin G. Hall BODY: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil x The 
global battle over genetically modified food is spilling 

21) France's Glavany says GMO laws should be modified PARIS, 
July 25 (Reuters) - French Farm Minister Jean Glavany said 
on Tuesday that laws governing genetically modified 
organisms (GMOs) should be changed to prevent 
inconsistencies in response to accidental planting of gene 
crops. France in May ordered the destruction of about 600 

22) FAO urges GMO labelling for animal feed OPORTO, Portugal, 
July 25 (Reuters) - National food safety programmes need to 
evaluate, authorise and label animal feed containing 
genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the Food and 
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday. In a report 
to its European regional conference in Oporto on food 

23) INTERVIEW-DuPont unit ``optimistic'' on GMOs in Europe By 
K.T. Arasu CHICAGO, July 25 (Reuters) - Progress is being 
made on the contentious issue of genetically-modified (GM) 
food in Europe but more work is needed to win public 
acceptance, the head of DuPont Crop Protection, a unit of 
DuPont Co.,

MILITARY

24) THE HINDU July 25, 2000 HEADLINE: India: 'Peer review' of 
Pokhran tests sought BODY: MUMBAI, JULY 24.The former 
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Dr. P.K. 
 Iyengar, wants a white paper comparing the country's 
nuclear weapons capabilities with its perceived 
adversaries, speeding up of the missile development 

NUCLEAR POWER

25) UPDATE 1-Third Japanese nuke reactor shut down in five days 
TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) - Japan's largest power utility on 
Tuesday began shutting down its third nuclear reactor in 
five days after discovering an increase iodine in the 
reactor's water, but it said no radiation had leaked 
outside the plant. It was the third incident at Tokyo 

26) Mainichi Daily News July 25, 2000, SECTION: Page 1; FRONT 
PAGE LENGTH: 703 words HEADLINE: Cracks appear in nuke 
power policy BODY: AEC fails to specify numerical target 
Mainichi Shimbun Cracks in the nation's commitment to 
atomic power are starting to emerge, judging by the draft 
of the next long-term plan for nuclear energy policy 

27) 07/25 KAM Wants Power Sector Fully Freed .Text Nairobi - 
The manufacturers association has called for the 
liberalisation of the power sector. Nakuru Kenya 
Association of Manufacturers chairman K.S. Bedi said time 
was ripe for Kenya to consider a nuclear power plant to 
ensure sufficient power supply for the industrial sector. 

28) SIBERIA-ENVIRONMENT: PLANS TO BUILD MORE NUCLEAR ...
 IRKUTSK, Russia, (Jul. 23) IPS - Young environmentalist 
Alexei Toropov says he is dedicating his life to fighting 
for the safe clean-up of radioactive waste in one of the 
world's largest nuclear -- and arguably the most 
contaminated -- complexes, near his hometown of Tomsk, in 

(Greenpeace)
29) UPDATE 3-Turkey puts nuke power plans on indefinite hold By 
Ercan Ersoy ANKARA, July 25 (Reuters) - Turkey announced on 
Tuesday it had indefinitely postponed plans to build its 
first nuclear power plant, saying the multi-billion-dollar 
project could throw the country's IMF-backed anti-inflation 
plan off course. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, ending three 

TOXICS

(Greenpeace)
30) The Toronto Star July 25, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: BUSINESS 
LENGTH: 395 words HEADLINE: WTO RULES AGAINST CANADIAN 
ASBESTOS BODY: Elizabeth Olson GENEVA - A recent ruling by 
the World Trade Organization that upholds France's ban on 
Canadian asbestos imports has caught the attention of 
environmentalists and labour rights advocates, who say it 

31) 07/25 Russians Warn of Toxic Fuel Leak VLADIVOSTOK, Russia 
(AP) -- More than 2,750 tons of highly toxic missile fuel 
could start leaking in the Russian Far East region of 
Primorye because of deteriorating storage tanks, the 
regional administration warned Tuesday. "The facilities are 
decaying, which increases the danger of an ecological 

32) The Guardian (London) July 25, 2000 SECTION: Guardian City 
Pages, Pg. 27 LENGTH: 952 words HEADLINE: Organic farmers 
fear growing pains; News Analysis Demand For Traditional 
Food Values Comes Into Conflict With 21st Century Mass 
Marketing BYLINE: Mary O'Hara BODY: Mary O'Hara It is a 
sunny summer morning on Northwood farm in Devon. Tim Deane, 

33) U.S. presses Colombia to use herbicide on coca By Diane 
Bartz WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The United States is 
pressing Colombia to use a controversial fungus to kill 
coca plants, U.S. officials and others familiar with the 
programme say. Advocates of the fungus Fusarium oxysporum, 
such as Florida Republican Representative Bill McCollum, 

X-OTHER-X

34) 07/24 Italy-World Food ROME (AP) -- People around the world 
will be better fed by 2030 as food production outpaces 
population growth, but widespread hunger will persist, a 
U.N. food agency said Monday. In a study, the Rome-based 
Food and Agricultural Organization said cereals will remain 
the world's staple food. Cereal production -- half of which 

35) 07/25 WRAP: US Lambastes World Bank On Environment Policies 
By Damian Milverton WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. 
 Treasury Department Tuesday rebuked the World Bank over 
its handling of environmental concerns, warning that a lack 
of Congressional funding for a key environmental fund could 
erode U.S. influence in this area. Joseph Eichenberger, 

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