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Global News Headlines 08/13
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Sunday, August 13, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 12, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Pollution victims demand measures BYLINE: Yomiuri
BODY: Asthma patients who have been exposed to air
pollution for many years called for steps to be taken
swiftly as the Environment Agency worked to hammer out a
policy Friday that includes full-scale countermeasures for
2) Africa News August 12, 2000 HEADLINE: Uganda; Meteorology
Predicts Severe Drought Expected BYLINE: Betty Kagoro, New
Vision (Kampala) BODY: Kampala - The Commissioner for
Meteorology, Mr. Bwango Apuuli, has warned of severe
droughts in Uganda and East Africa during this season.
Appearing before the parliamentary committee on natural
3) The Gazette (Montreal) August 12, 2000, FINAL SECTION:
Science; I6 HEADLINE: The Ark goes to seed: As vegetation
types die out all over the world, British scientists are
creating a Noah's Ark for plants BYLINE: NIGEL HAWKES
DATELINE: LONDON BODY: Down in Sussex in southern England,
Kew Gardens is building a Noah's Ark for plants. The seeds
ENERGY
4) The Ottawa Citizen August 12, 2000, FINAL HEADLINE: Sun
power: Solar homes give peace of mind, warmth to owners
BYLINE: Jane Cardillo BODY: On sunny days, Gordon Howell's
Edmonton home here becomes a mini-power plant, generating
more than enough electricity to meet his needs. His half of
a west-end duplex is outfitted with equipment that
5) XINHUA HEADLINE: More Tibetans to Have Solar-Powered
Electricity DATELINE: BEIJING, August 12 BODY: China's
State Development Planning Commission and the State Power
Corporation have launched a plan to give Tibet's Ngari
Prefecture solar-powered electricity by 2003, ending its
history of using oil lamps. Some 8,000 power generating
6) BUSINESS LINE August 12, 2000 HEADLINE: India: MTBE as
additive to petrol opposed BODY: NEW DELHI, Aug. 11: THE
Centre for Science and Environment has protested to the
Ministry of Environment and Forests about the proposal to
add methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as an additive to
petrol to reduce carbon monoxide emissions. Stating that
7) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
August 12, 2000, SECTION: News; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: In Niger
Delta, Oil Pipeline Explosions Shatter Hopes and Lives
BYLINE: By Norimitsu Onishi; New York Times Service
DATELINE: OVIRI-COURT, Nigeria BODY: As the rain clattered
on his aluminum roof, Akierou Awe sat in a gloomy corner
FORESTS
8) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 13, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 21
HEADLINE: News: Millions of birds die as Australian farmers
clear bushland NATURE WATCH BYLINE: By NICK SQUIRES AND
DAVID HARRISON BODY: PARROTS and cockatoos are among more
than 200 species of birds endangered in Australia because
trees are being felled at a rate similar to that found in
9) Sunday Express August 13, 2000 HEADLINE: INCENSE TREE
THAT'S FACING THE CHOP BYLINE: From Colin Short in kuala
lumpur BODY: AN exotic tree prized for its fragrant wood
and oil to help make incense is in danger of extinction,
warn environmentalists. The Asian Aquilaria - or agarwood
tree - which is logged in Indonesia and other countries in
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(Greenpeace)
10) The Edmonton Sun August 12, 2000, Final EDITION SECTION:
BUSINESS, Pg. 39 LENGTH: 379 words HEADLINE: CROP LOSSES
FEARED 'FRANKENFOOD' FORCES SPARK ALBERTA MINISTER'S WARNING
BYLINE: MARK COOPER, LEGISLATURE BUREAU DATELINE: WINNIPEG
BODY: Alberta stands to lose millions in foreign trade
unless provinces unite to fight off protests against
11) The Gazette (Montreal) August 12, 2000, FINAL SECTION:
Editorial / Op-ed; B5 HEADLINE: A patent on life: It's time
for a national debate on the fundamental issues raised by
the Harvard mouse case BYLINE: MAUREEN MCTEER BODY: The
Federal Court of Appeal's decision in the Harvard mouse
patent case will give us all a lot to talk about. This
12) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 12, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Poll: More than 60% reluctant to eat GM foods
BYLINE: Yomiuri BODY: More than 60 percent of respondents
voiced concerns over the safety of genetically modified
(GM) foods and about 70 percent said they were reluctant to
eat beef produced by cloning technology, in a nationwide
13) Sunday Express August 13, 2000 HEADLINE: UPROAR PREDICTED
AS EMBRYO CLONING GETS GO-AHEAD TO HELP CURE DISEASES
BYLINE: By Jon Craig BODY: A MEDICAL ethics row will break
this week when the Govern-ment gives the go-ahead for human
embryo cloning. Chief Medical Officer Professor Liam
Donaldson and a team of experts will back cloning in a
14) The Independent (London) August 12, 2000, SECTION: TITLE
PAGE; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: GM SEED FIRM THREATENS TO SUE
GOVERNMENT BYLINE: Paul Waugh BODY: THE COMPANY at the
centre of Britain's worst GM pollution incident is
threatening to sue the Government for more than pounds 1.5m
over its handling of the affair. Advanta Seeds UK Ltd paid
(Greenpeace)
15) Aberdeen Press and Journal August 11, 2000 SECTION:
Agriculture: GM Crops, Pg.7
LENGTH: 189 words HEADLINE: Legal move may halt fresh GM
crop trials BYLINE: By BODY: ENVIRONMENTAL groups are
investigating a legal challenge to halt more farm trials of
GM modified crops in Scotland. Greenpeace yesterday accused
16) BBC News Online You are in: Sci/Tech UK 13 August, 2000, UK
decision due on human cloning Ministers have to balance
politics, science and ethics Scientists in the UK could
soon know whether they will be allowed to clone human
embryos for medical research. The government is expected to
announce on Wednesday that it will give a cautious go-ahead
MILITARY
17) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US atomic bomb lost off
Greenland since 1968: report DATELINE: COPENHAGEN, Aug 13
BODY: The United States government has for years covered up
the loss of an atomic bomb from a B-52 which crashed off
the coast of Greenland in 1968, the Danish newspaper
Jyllands Posten revealed Sunday. Staff at a US military
18) The Times (London) August 12, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: Putin prepares huge cut in nuclear forces BYLINE:
Alice Lagnado BODY: PRESIDENT PUTIN is expected to slash
Russia's strategic nuclear rocket forces in the near future
in moves that will change indelibly the face of the the
country's military. The Strategic Missile Force has long
19) Sunday Mail August 13, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 13
HEADLINE: PEACE DRUID TOLD TO STAY ON THE LEFT BODY: DRUID
Kreb Dragonrider faces arrest if he turns the wrong way
leaving his home. Dragonrider, 42, who lives at the Faslane
Peace Camp, appeared at a court in Rhu, near Helensburgh,
after chalking up his fourth arrest in 10 days of
NUCLEAR POWER
20) The Canberra Times August 12, 2000, SECTION: A;8 HEADLINE:
Deadline for nuclear dump site BYLINE: HONEY WEBB BODY: The
Government has set itself a preliminary deadline in 2002
for the selection of an Australian medium-level nuclear
waste dump site. Industry, Science and Resources Minister
Nick Minchin would not rule out co-location of the dump
21) AP Worldstream August 12, 2000; HEADLINE: Two reactors shut
down after electrical faults at nuclear plant DATELINE:
SOFIA, Bulgaria BODY: Two reactors at Bulgaria's only
nuclear plant have been temporarily shut down following a
malfunction of high voltage equipment, the state BTA news
agency reported Saturday. According to plant officials
22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Austria plays EU card in
nuclear plant war with Czechs BYLINE: Clare Murphy
DATELINE: VIENNA, Aug 13 BODY: Fiercely anti- nuclear
Austrians are threatening to sabotage the Czech Republic's
EU membership aspirations if Prague goes ahead with plans
to activate a nuclear plant just inside its border. Austria
23) The Moscow Times August 12, 2000 SECTION: No. 2021
HEADLINE: St. Pete Nuclear Plant Safety Alarm Sounds
BYLINE: THE MOSCOW TIMES BODY: ST. PETERSBURG - Officials
at St. Petersburg's LAES nuclear power plant said this week
that a false alarm had triggered a radiation safety system
in the plant's dormant No. 4 reactor and there was no
24) The Irish Times August 12, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; HOME
NEWS; Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Rail wagon ban on BNFL lifted BYLINE:
By CHRISTINE NEWMAN BODY: An order prohibiting British
Nuclear Fuels from using a type of rail wagon for
transporting low-level waste from Sellafield to a storage
centre was lifted yesterday, but investigations into a
OCEANS
25) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 13, 2000, HEADLINE: Oil
clearing efforts nearly completed on southern Spanish coast
DATELINE: Malaga, Spain BODY: Efforts to to clear oil
pollution from beaches along Spain's southern coast, known
as the Costa del Sol, were nearly completed by Sunday, local
officials confirmed. Most beaches had been cleared of oil,
26) 08/13 Coral vs Coal By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Writer
BAAN HIN KRUT BAY, Thailand (AP) -- A pair of curious
butterfly fish hover around a diver's mask. A blue-spotted
ray skits into a crevice. Colorful nudibranchs, mollusks
known as "butterflies of the seas," sway gracefully from
coral heads bathed by shimmering, filtered sunlight. On
27) Sunday Mail SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 18 HEADLINE: YOU ARE HEREBY
CHARGED WITH HANDLING A LIVE MUSSEL BODY: A SCOT could
become the first person in Britain to be prosecuted for
handling mussels. He was arrested when police caught him
checking the creatures for pearls. The 27-year-old became
the first person to fall foul of Operation Necklace, a
TOXICS
28) Swimming pool chlorine leak sparks evacuations MELBOURNE,
Aug 13 AAP - One hundred homes were evacuated for more than
three hours today after liquid chlorine leaked from a tank
at a swimming pool in south-east suburban Melbourne. The
all-clear came at 5pm for the residents of about 11 streets
surrounding the pool - a block bordered by Grant Street,
29) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 12, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Toxic substances found at former factory site
BYLINE: Yomiuri DATELINE: OSAKA BODY: Several toxic
substances, including tetrachlorethylene and arsenic, have
been detected at the former site of a factory belonging to
Kurabo Industries, Ltd.,
(Greenpeace)
30) The Straits Times (Singapore) August 11, 2000 SECTION:
South-East Asia; Pg. 29 LENGTH: 303 words HEADLINE: 55 ill
as Thai factory spews toxic fumes BYLINE: James East,
Straits Times Thailand Bureau BODY: Victims warded in
second such incident in as many months BANGKOK --
Fifty-five Thais were rushed to hospital after being
31) Press Association Newsfile August 12, 2000, HEADLINE:
WARNINGS AFTER CYANIDE LEAK AT CANAL BYLINE: Alistair
Keely, PA News BODY: The public are today being warned to
stay away from a canal after a cyanide leak killed several
thousand of fish. More than 3,000 fish have already died
after the cyanide leaked into a stretch of the Trent and
32) The San Francisco Chronicle AUGUST 12, 2000, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A10 HEADLINE: Blue Danube's Murky
Future; A year after war, famed river facing toxic time bomb
BYLINE: Claude V.Z. Morgan DATELINE: Belgrade BODY: For
Yugoslavia, the Danube River is a lifeline -- a source of
fish, irrigation and drinking water and an important
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
33) The Vancouver Sun August 12, 2000, FINAL SECTION: Sports;
D11 / Front LENGTH: 1547 words HEADLINE: The Green Games
BYLINE: Wendy Long BODY: When the 1900 Summer Olympic Games
were held in Paris, environmental concerns were
non-existent, even unheard-of issues for the time. So it
was that Belgium's Leon de Lunden blasted away 21 birds to
34) IPR Strategic Business Information Database August 13, 2000
HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP TO CHALLENGE ABOLITION OF
WATCHDOG AGENCY. BODY: In an interview with "Segodnya" on 3
August, Vera Mishchenko, head of the Ekoyuris Institute in
Moscow, said that she plans to file a suit in the Supreme
Court against the Russian government for its decision to
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