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Global News Headlines 08/02
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Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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1) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August 2, 2000
Wednesday SECTION: Pg. 3 LENGTH: 114 words HEADLINE: BHP
goes radical on greenhouse SOURCE: The Australian Financial
Review BYLINE: Lenore Taylor ABSTRACT: BHP has broken
resource sector solidarity on greenhouse gas emissions. On
2 August 2000, it will release a raft of arguments for an
2) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 2, 2000 SECTION: Financial
Pages LENGTH: 557 words HEADLINE: Japan to consider tech
aid for Asia on alternative energy DATELINE: Tokyo BODY:
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
will consider providing Japanese technological assistance
to Asian developing countries to help them develop
3) 08/02 DJ Japan Trading Cos To Swap Emission Rights,Elec
Pwr-Nikkei TOKYO (Nikkei)--In a bid to strengthen their
energy-related interests, a number of Japanese trading
houses are entering businesses such as greenhouse gas
emission rights trading and electric power brokerage
operations, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its
4) OTC 08/02 1451 Researchers Say Russian Permafrost Could
Melt in ...
MOSCOW (Aug. 2) XINHUA - The permafrost in northern
Russia' s Komi republic could melt in the 23rd century, a
British research center has warned. The average temperature
in the North European part of Russia may rise by 4 degrees
5) The Guardian (London) August 2, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Leader Pages, Pg. 17 HEADLINE: Dump the hype; High Taxes
Could Help Fund Solar Research BODY: The dump the pump
protest against high petrol prices seems to have been
dumped by consumers in most of the country. It was business
almost as usual yesterday for most forecourts, as drivers
6) 08/02 1617 U.S. Says Forests Will Help Carbon Emission Cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has proposed
getting as much credit for using forests and farmland to
absorb carbon dioxide as it would for cutting emissions
from smokestack industries under the Kyoto accord on global
warming, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. The
ENERGY
7) Agence France Presse August 2, 2000, Wednesday 8:02 AM,
Eastern Time SECTION: International news LENGTH: 316 words
HEADLINE: New toxic leak could threaten Rio de Janeiro's
water supply DATELINE: RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 2 BODY: A new
toxic leak from an underground pipeline owned by state-run
Petrobras oil company could foul a tributary of the Gandu
8) Reuters Pipeline oil spill threatens Canadian town CANADA :
August 2, 2000 CHETWYND - A pipeline in northeastern
British Columbia ruptured early yesterday, spilling
thousands of barrels of crude oil into a nearby river used
as the region's water supply, officials said. Up to 10,700
barrels of oil may have spilled into the Pine River,
9) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 2, 2000 HEADLINE: ROUNDUP:
Diesel oil spill stopped in Spain DATELINE: Madrid BODY:
Workers in central Spain Wednesday managed to block the
advance of a diesel oil spill of 250,000 litres, which had
contaminated a 10-kilometre stretch of the Tajo River,
radio reports said. The oil had leaked from a tank at the
FORESTS
10) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Indigenous Brazilian group
takes hostages demanding protection for lands DATELINE: RIO
DE JANEIRO, Aug 2 BODY: A group of Brazil's indigenous
Kaiapos people has been holding hostage 15 fisherman who
entered their ancestral lands, demanding the government
demarcate the borders of a vast reservation to keep out
11) Times Colonist (Victoria) August 2, 2000 EDITION Final
Capital Region PAGE C2 Tree-sitting Elaho anti-loggers are
out of food and water, RCMP claim SQUAMISH (CP) -- The RCMP
said Tuesday tree-sitting anti-logging protesters in the
Elaho Valley, north of Vancouver, have run out of food and
water. The police were refusing to send up any more
12) Asahi News Service August 2, 2000 HEADLINE: OKINAWA CANCELS
IRIOMOTE PROJECT DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: The Okinawa
prefectural government has abandoned a scheme to turn part
of a state forest on Iriomotejima island into farmland,
following protests by environmentalists. The area in
question is home to the Iriomote wildcat and 46 other rare
13) United Press International August 2, 2000 HEADLINE:
Protestors blast big bank DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2,
BODY: More than 150 protestors representing a rain forest
coalition, AIDS action group ACT-UP, housing activists
ACORN and others gathered outside the offices of Salomon
Smith Barney to present what they called a ''Darth Vader
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(Greenpeace)
14) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 333 words HEADLINE: Brazilian
state orders genetically modified products off shelves
DATELINE: SAO PAULO, Aug 2 BODY: In a first-of-its-kind
move in Brazil, Sao Paulo state health officials ordered
nine foods containing genetically modified ingredients off
store shelves until their labels specify that content,
15) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 2, 2000 HEADLINE: China
develops GM potato in bid to prevent disease DATELINE:
Beijing BODY: Chinese scientists have developed a
genetically modified potato capable of protecting people
against the hepatitis B virus, state media reported on
Wednesday. The new potato contains a gene from a protein
16) The Guardian (London) August 2, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Society Pages, Pg. 9 LENGTH: 477 words HEADLINE: Sowing
seeds of doubt; Despite Cash For Public Transport, Traffic
Remains A Problem [sic] [correct subtitle follows: Dupont
Attempts To Influence Anti-gm Food Campaigners] BYLINE:
Andy Rowell BODY: Andy Rowell A leading GM company is
MILITARY
17) Foreign Report August 3, 2000 SECTION: Vol. 26; No. 3
LENGTH: 356 words HEADLINE: More Indian nuclear tests? BODY:
Foreign Report has learned that the cia has reported to the
White House its concerns that India may be preparing for
another series of nuclear tests. In May 1998, India
conducted tests that shattered the nuclear ambiguity that
18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Top court delays appeal over
nuclear waste crusader acquittal DATELINE: MOSCOW, Aug 2
BODY: Russia's top appeals court on Wednesday delayed until
September a last-ditch appeal by prosecutors contesting the
acquittal of nuclear waste whistle-blower Alexander Nikitin
on treason charges. In April, a court dismissed the case
19) The Christian Science Monitor August 2, 2000, SECTION:
WORLD; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Putin tries big shift in military
strategy BYLINE: Fred Weir, Special to The Christian
Science Monitor DATELINE: MOSCOW HIGHLIGHT: Russian
president this week toppled Army old guard. Defense
minister may be next to go. BODY: Russian President
20) The Moscow Times August 2, 2000 SECTION: No. 2013 HEADLINE:
Norilsk Considers Nuclear Submarines for Shipping BYLINE:
By Vladislav Maximov BODY: Vedomosti Metals giant Norilsk
Nickel has tested a nuclear submarine that the company
plans to introduce in place of icebreakers for shipping its
goods. According to Norilsk's press service an "above-water
21) Financial Times ; 02-Aug-2000 NATIONAL NEWS: MPs seek
rethink on project NEWS DIGEST: DEFENCE SYSTEM MPs seek
rethink on project MPs have urged the government to
encourage Washington to seek other ways of dealing with the
nuclear threat rather than pushing ahead with its
controversial national missile defence system. The NMD
NUCLEAR POWER
22) Submissions delivered opposing Honeymoon uranium mine BODY:
ADELAIDE, Aug 2 AAP - Thousands of public submissions
opposing a proposed uranium mine were dumped at South
Australia's Parliament House today. Environmental group
Friends of the Earth delivered the submissions opposing the
proposed Honeymoon mine in the state's north-east.
23) The New York Times August 2, 2000, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: C; Page 4; Column 3; Business/Financial Desk
HEADLINE: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; A New Nuclear Reactor
Sheds Only Some Light on Brazil BYLINE: By JENNIFER L. RICH
DATELINE: SAO PAULO, Brazil, Aug. 1 BODY: The southeastern
region of Brazil felt a surge of nuclear power a few weeks
24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japanese consortium in bid
for Vietnam nuclear plant DATELINE: TOKYO, Aug 2 BODY:
Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Ltd. plan to form a consortium to bid for a nuclear power
plant construction project in Vietnam, a Toshiba
spokeswoman said Wednesday. "The three companies agreed to
25) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Pipe rupture caused
Fukushima nuclear reactor shutdown DATELINE: FUKUSHIMA,
Japan, Aug. 2 Kyodo BODY: The earthquake-related rupture of
a corroded pipe and subsequent increase in waste gas led to
last month's shutdown of a reactor at one of Tokyo Electric
Power Co.'s (TEPCO) nuclear power plants in Fukushima
OCEANS
26) Globe and Mail 02/08/2000, Canada (Online) Corals play key
role in cold waters Fish stock declines when trawling gear
ruins deep-sea reefs, scientists say KEVIN COX Atlantic
Bureau Wednesday, August 2, 2000 Halifax -- Marine
scientists are taking their first, up-close look at
deep-sea corals found on the ocean floor off Nova Scotia --
27) Financial Times ; 02-Aug-2000 WORLD NEWS: ASIA-PACIFIC:
Japan whaling criticism grows NEWS DIGEST By MICHIYO
NAKAMOTO POSSIBLE SANCTIONS Japan whaling criticism grows
International criticism of Japan's whaling activities
stepped up yesterday as the Japanese government brushed
aside indications that the US was considering sanctions in
28) U.S. senator urges action over Japanese whaling WASHINGTON,
Aug 2 (Reuters) - A leading U.S. senator urged President
Bill Clinton on Wednesday to consider imposing sanctions
against Japan to protest a hotly contested whale hunt in
the north Pacific. Despite opposition from President Bill
Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and leading
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
29) THE INDEPENDENT August 2, 2000, Wednesday LENGTH: 385 words
HEADLINE: Greenpeace offers to help Dhaka improve condition
of shipbreaking BODY: Representatives of a global
environmental campaigning organization, Greenpeace, and
Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)
yesterday asked the government to take measures to stop
30) The Vancouver Sun August 2, 2000, FINAL SECTION: Food; C3
LENGTH: 159 words HEADLINE: Canada sets national organic
standard DATELINE: TORONTO BODY: TORONTO -- Canada is one
of the first countries in the world to come up with a
definition for organic food, says a report in the food
trade magazine Canadian Grocer. After years of effort by
(Greenpeace)
31) The Jerusalem Post August 1, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4
LENGTH: 372 words HEADLINE: Investigation committee begins
examination of Kishon- cancer link BYLINE: David Rudge BODY:
A special inquiry committee began investigating yesterday
the alleged link between the polluted Kishon river and
cancer in several naval commandos who had trained in its
(Greenpeace)
32) Daily Star 02/08/2000, Lebanon (Online) Lebanese news
Pollution becomes a burning issue at AUH Hospital's waste
disposal method is leaving its black marks on local
residents Maha Al-Azar Daily Star staff The summer heat has
most people wishing that a breeze would blow their way, but
not residents living close to the American University of
33) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 02, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 13
LENGTH: 545 words HEADLINE: News: Fertility 2000: Chemicals
are threat to unborn daughters BYLINE: By Roger Highfield
BODY: EVIDENCE that exposure of pregnant women to chemicals
in the environment could age the ovaries of their unborn
daughters has been found by a British study. Scientists are
34) Financial Times ; 02-Aug-2000 OBSERVER: Dirty work OBSERVER
COLUMN Dirty work Where there's muck, there's brass. Ask
the folks over at the Soil Association, which seems to be
doing very nicely out of the switch to organic farming. The
Association is being inundated with requests for
certification from the growing number of farmers who are
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
35) Times Colonist (Victoria) July 31, 2000 EDITION Final News
PAGE C14 Emerging youth movement scorns eco-alarmists:
Group takes on junk-science environmentalism Jen Ross
FRANKFURT -- Leaf-covered ``eco-police'' will be on the
lookout at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, this week heckling
visitors carrying pop cans, disposable diapers, leather
36) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 2, 2000, SECTION:
International News LENGTH: 244 words HEADLINE: UNEP chief
urges sanctions for violators of environment treaties
DATELINE: Hanover, Germany BODY: Countries violating
environmental protection accords should face sanctions, the
executive director of the United Nations Environment
37) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Police arrest 48 protesters
on sidelines of Republican convention DATELINE:
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Aug 1 BODY: Sporadic incidents
aimed at disrupting the Republican Party national
convention here saw 48 people arrested Tuesday and two
policemen injured, the police said. Amid strong police
38) Environmentalists seek changes in U.S. trade plan
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Activists said on Wednesday a
White House plan for making environmental protection a
priority in future trade agreements was a step in the right
direction but did not go far enough. The White House
unveiled draft guidelines in July calling for U.S. trade
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