Global News Headlines 08/03

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Thursday, August 3, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) Deep ocean current linked to global climate change By 
Patricia Reaney LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - A deep ocean 
current originating south of New Zealand near Antarctica is 
influencing marine life nearly halfway around the world and 
could be a key to understanding climate change, an American 
scientist said on Wednesday. Much of the research into 

2) 08/02 Forests-Warming By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press 
Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration is 
proposing that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests and 
agricultural lands could account for a substantial amount 
of the greenhouse gas reductions required under a pending 
international treaty on global warming. Such credits could 

3) The Express August 3, 2000 HEADLINE: THE YEAR THE EARTH 
CAUGHT FIRE AND THE GLOBE WARMED ; BYLINE: FROM BILL 
MARTINEZ IN RIDGECREST, CALIFORNIA BODY: A RASH of forest 
fires raging across the world was being blamed last night 
on global warming which has dried up the rain. And the 
blazes themselves were perpetuating the problem by 

4) Financial Times ; 03-Aug-2000, Online, WORLD NEWS: THE 
AMERICAS: US heads for EU clash on Kyoto accord GREENHOUSE 
GASES: By EDWARD ALDEN The US is set to clash with the 
European Union over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas 
emissions agreed as part of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on 
climate change. In asubmission to the United Nations issued 

ENERGY

5) Associated Press. August 3, 2000, HEADLINE: Petrobras fires 
four employees held responsible for oil spill DATELINE: RIO 
DE JANEIRO, Brazil BODY: Government-owned oil conglomerate 
Petrobras has fired four workers for failing to follow 
proper procedure, triggering Brazil's worst oil spill in 25 
years. Petrobras President Henri Phillipe Reichstul said an 

6) Globe and Mail Canada (Online) Giant oil slick edges closer 
to B.C. town Officials start rationing water as crude 
continues to seep through gauntlet of booms on river JANE 
ARMSTRONG British Columbia Bureau Thursday, August 3, 2000 
Vancouver -- Efforts to contain a giant slick of crude oil 
that was floating toward the northeastern British Columbia 

7) Reuters Morocco tenders for $200-mln wind power farms 
MOROCCO : August 3, 2000 RABAT - Morocco issued yesterday 
an international tender for the construction of $200 
million wind power farms in the northern and southern areas 
of Tangiers and Tarfaya, a senior ONE manager said. "We 
launched today an international tender to select the best 

8) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 3, 2000, HEADLINE: Shell 
hostages freed in Nigeria DATELINE: The Hague BODY: The CEO 
of Royal Dutch/Shell, Jeroen van der Veer, said on Thursday 
the hostage crisis at the group's drilling rigs in Nigeria 
was over. A group of 35 youths had this week taken hostage 
165 members of an American construction team working on 

(Greenpeace)
9) RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS START OIL POLLUTION PROTEST IN 
FAR EAST ; BBC Monitoring Service ; 03-Aug-2000, Online; 
Text of report by Russian news agency RIA 
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 3rd August: The Sakhalin Ecology Watch 
and Supporters of Greenpeace Youth Group movements today 
started a defence of the Sea of Okhotsk, where oil is being 

10) The Guardian (London) August 3, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Leader Pages, Pg. 20 HEADLINE: Dump the pump' just fuels 
inequality. Let's dump it; George Monbiot Motorists Have 
Never Had It So Good. They Should Be Paying Even More BODY: 
We should always be wary of social justice campaigns 
championed by the rich and powerful. The Countryside 

11) OTC California Wind-Power Backers Tout Their ...
 Aug. 2 (The Bakersfield Californian/KRTBN)--Amid the 
searing heat and dire-sounding warnings for Californians to 
conserve or else, wind power generating companies say they 
have megawatts to spare. But they say they can't deliver 
the juice because transmission line construction hasn't 

FORESTS

12) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August 3, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Greens angered by approval to 
clear vast tracts of woodland SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald 
ABSTRACT: There is evidence of huge clearing of woodland in 
NSW. This has deeply angered conservation groups in August 
2000. It appears that some 2,000 square kilometres of 

13) The Vancouver Sun August 3, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; B5 
HEADLINE: Elaho protesters arrested after ending treetop 
vigil BODY: Four people were arrested Wednesday after they 
ended a treetop protest against logging in the Elaho 
Valley, near Squamish, about 90 kilometres north of 
Vancouver. After holding out for days, the protesters -- 

14) Agence France Presse August 3, 2000, HEADLINE: Indonesia to 
take 18 firms to court over slash and burn DATELINE: 
JAKARTA, Aug 3 BODY: Authorities in the Indonesian province 
of North Sumatra plan to bring at least 18 companies to 
court for burning tens of thousands of hectares (acres) of 
rain forest, according to a report Thursday. The head of 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

15) Globe and Mail Canada (Online) There's nothing like a 
feel-good bowl of golden rice. Or not NAOMI KLEIN 
Wednesday, August 2, 2000 'T his rice could save a million 
kids a year."
 That was the arresting headline on the cover of last 
week's Time magazine. It referred to golden rice, a newly 

16) Saudi bans import of GM foods - report RIYADH, Aug 3 
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has banned the import of 
foodstuffs containing genetically modified ingredients, 
including soya bean oil, a newspaper reported on Thursday. 
 The al-Eqtisadiah daily quoted Commerce Minister Osama bin 
Jaafar Faqih as saying the decision was taken due to lack 

(Greenpeace)
17) AFX European Focus August 3, 2000 LENGTH: 82 words 
HEADLINE: Novartis to end genetically modified ingredients 
use, continue GM plant R&D DATELINE: BASEL BODY: Novartis 
AG said it will end the use of genetically modified 
ingredients in its food production, Swiss news agency SDA 
reported. This would allow the company to appear on a 

18) PA 08/03 NEW GENE SWITCH CROP TRIALS ANNOUNCED By Rachael 
Crofts, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, PA News Genetically 
modified crop trials are set to go ahead at 25 sites in 
England and Scotland even though an ongoing investigation 
into seed contamination has not been completed, it was 
revealed today. The Government is to press ahead with 

19) PA 08/03 AL FAYED `TO SUE GOVERNMENT OVER GM CROPS DELAY' 
By Paul Hunter, PA News Harrods boss Mohammed Al Fayed 
today announced he planned to sue the Government after 
genetically modified crops were planted on his estate in 
northern Scotland. He is also suing Advanta Seeds UK, the 
company which provided the oilseed rape seed which was used 

20) 08/03 UK MPs Call for Tougher Regulation of GM Seeds LONDON 
(Reuters) - A panel of British MPs called on Thursday for 
stricter testing of seeds for GM-contamination after 
farmers were mistakenly sold sullied rapeseed earlier this 
year. In April, Advanta -- part of a 50-50 joint venture 
between Anglo-Swedish group AstraZeneca Plc and Dutch 

MILITARY

21) Globe and Mail Canada (Online) Groups demand end to plan to 
fly nuclear fuel to Canada Accidents not likely, but public 
discussion of risks essential, they say CAMPBELL CLARK 
Parliamentary Bureau Thursday, August 3, 2000 Ottawa -- A 
coalition of environmentalist groups charged yesterday that 
the federal government has misled Canadians about the 

22) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 3, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 3 
HEADLINE: Atomic bomb survivors group to disband BYLINE: 
Yomiuri DATELINE: HIROSHIMA BODY: A group formed by 
survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing to share their 
experience of the bombing with visitors to the city will 
disband next March due to financial difficulties and the 

23) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 3, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 1 
HEADLINE: High radiation levels recorded in Kazakhstan 
BYLINE: Yomiuri BODY: Residents of Semipalatinsk, 
Kazakhstan, have been exposed to levels of radiation 
equivalent to that of people near the center of Hiroshima 
when the first atomic bomb was dropped, due to the large 

24) The Guardian (London) August 3, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Foreign Pages, Pg. 16 HEADLINE: Pakistan to sell nuclear 
material BYLINE: Rory McCarthy in Islamabad and Julian 
Borger in Philadelphia BODY: The military regime in 
Pakistan is to allow the export of radioactive material and 
equipment for nuclear reactors, in apparent breach of 

25) Daily Record August 3, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: 
MOD ARRESTS 'ILLEGAL' BYLINE: Raymond Hainey BODY: 
THOUSANDS of peace protesters arrested over the past 13 
years may have been detained illegally. Former MoD police 
inspector Robert Sweeney says the force blundered when the 
law governing it was changed. He claims all serving 

26) BBC Online You are in: UK: Scotland Thursday, 3 August, 
2000, Faslane radiation fears Workers operate within 
nuclear reactor compartments Defence chiefs have rejected 
allegations that Faslane workers could be going home with 
radioactive contamination on their clothes. A former safety 
controller at the Clyde nuclear submarine base said the 

27) 08/03 US wants private, world role in Agent Orange plan By 
David Brunnstrom HANOI (Reuters) - The United States would 
like to see U.S. firms and international organizations take 
part in a cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam and does not 
intend to do the work itself, a U.S. defense official said 
Thursday. Gary Vest, principle assistant deputy 

28) Russian Press Digest August 03, 2000 SECTION: News 
HEADLINE: London Supports Moscow In Dispute With Washington?
BYLINE: Dmitry Gornostayev SOURCE: NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA, pp. 
1, 6 HIGHLIGHT: British parliament members recommend their 
government to convince United States to give up plans for 
national missile defense system. BODY: In its dispute with 

NUCLEAR POWER

29) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
August 3, 2000, SECTION: Finance; Pg. 12 HEADLINE: 
Brazilians Facing An Energy Shortfall BYLINE: By Jennifer 
L. Rich; New York Times Service DATELINE: SAO PAULO BODY: 
The southeastern region of Brazil felt a surge of nuclear 
power a few weeks ago. This was notable because the surge 

30) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Franatome completes China 
nuclear reactor core DATELINE: SHANGHAI, August 3 BODY: 
French group Framatome has completed the construction of 
the core for a 1000 megawatt nuclear reactor, the group 
announced Thursday. Framatome built the nuclear reactor, 
which is destined for use at the Ling'ao nuclear power 

31) The Scotsman August 3, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 9 HEADLINE: 
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ADDS FUEL TO DOUNREAY PROTEST BYLINE: 
John Ross BODY: ANTI- NUCLEAR campaigners have called on 
the government to ditch any plans to reprocess radioactive 
waste at Dounreay following reports of a scientific 
breakthrough in waste storage. Writing today in the journal 

32) 08/03 Plutonium Found in Hanford Air By LINDA ASHTON 
Associated Press Writer RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Plutonium 
particles were blowing around during the fire that burned 
half the Hanford nuclear reservation in June, authorities 
said. The levels are not considered dangerous. Harry 
Boston, the Energy Department's deputy site manager, 

OCEANS

33) The Ottawa Citizen August 3, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A1 
/ Front HEADLINE: Salmon farmers sidestep drug ban: 
Millions of salmon routinely treated with unapproved 
anti-parasite measures that could be an environmental 
danger BYLINE: Tom Spears BODY: Millions of Atlantic salmon 
on fish farms are being extensively treated with a 

34) The Vancouver Sun August 3, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; B8 
HEADLINE: Eliminating pesticides 'may help' restore salmon 
stocks: New research suggests that the chemicals and other 
pollutants hinder the salmon's ability to smell danger. 
 DATELINE: SEATTLE BODY: SEATTLE -- Low levels of 
pesticides can keep salmon from smelling properly, blocking 

35) Korea Times August 3, 2000, HEADLINE: Korea, China to Sign 
Fishing Pact Today BODY: Korea and China will sign a 
fishing agreement in Beijing Thursday, as both sides 
managed to iron out their differences regarding commercial 
fishing in controversial water zones in the vicinity of 
each other's coastal areas. Chinese Foreign Minister Tang 

TOXICS

36) XINHUA NEWS AGENCY. August 3, 2000, HEADLINE: Lead 
Pollution of Urban Children Raises Attention DATELINE: 
BEIJING, August 3 BODY: The increasingly serious lead 
pollution among China's urban children has caught the 
attention of a group of experts and officials, who gathered 
here today to discuss the issue. An April survey of 14,400 

37) Reuters FEATURE - Town's woes could be bad news for 
multinationals SOUTH AFRICA : August 3, 2000 PRIESKA - 
Death breathes on the South African town of Prieska, 
especially when the wind howls off the old asbestos mine 
dumps left by the London-listed Cape company. In the 
Northern Cape town of 15,000 people, at least 12 die every 

X-OTHER-X

(Greenpeace)
38) 08/03 Sydney 2000 organizers unveil Green Games project 
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- An endangered species of frog 
discovered in a disused quarry on the Olympic Park site 
provided the impetus for one of the biggest environmental 
initiatives in Sydney's Green Games concept. Sydney 2000 
organizers on Thursday unveiled the Water Reclamation and 

39) The Japan Times August 03, 2000, HEADLINE: Eco-conscious 
but comfortable: making environmentalism hip BODY: By 
MAYUMI SAITO Last year when advertising agencies asked 
Kazumi Oguro what his rival magazine was, he replied: "I 
wouldn't have to put out a new magazine if there was a 
rival."

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