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Friday, August 25, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) Globe and Mail 25/08/2000, Canada (Online) Promises of 
Northern B.C. oil are a pipe dream DAVID HOCKING Friday, 
August 25, 2000 For weak governments, it seems, big oil is 
like tobacco -- it tastes terrible, but it's addictive. 
 Perhaps that explains all the new talk by British 
Columbia's Northern Development Commissioner, John 

2) Financial Times ; 25-Aug-2000 EURO MARKETS: Danish economy 
facing wind of change: Turbine industry powers ahead - a 
global market growing 20 per cent per annum - and set to 
get stronger, writes Andrew Ward 12:00:00 am ; 639 words By 
ANDREW WARD Bacon and beer have long been considered, in 
popular imagination, staple components of the Danish 

3) Agence France Presse August 25, 2000 HEADLINE: Four dead in 
Greece as fire and heat ravage southern Europe DATELINE: 
ATHENS, Aug 25 BODY: Amid a persisting heatwave in southern 
Europe Friday, fires raging in Greece killed four people 
and authorities declared a state of emergency in Arcadia, in
the southern Greek Peloponnese region. Greek Interior 

4) Reuters Sweden energy tax draws fire from within govt party 
SWEDEN: August 25, 2000 STOCKHOLM - Sweden's Social 
Democratic government is facing opposition from within its 
own party to its proposal to increase taxes on energy to 
cut consumption and reduce pollution. The government, which 
now gets up to five percent of its tax income from energy 

5) New Scientist August 26, 2000 SECTION: Comment: Editorial, 
Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Steamed up HIGHLIGHT: If you think we know 
how to tackle global warming, think again BODY: IF YOU were 
to go out in the street and ask people what the North Pole 
is like, most would probably tell you that it is very cold 
and very difficult to get to, unless you like hauling 

6) New Scientist August 26, 2000 SECTION: This Week: This Week 
- Focus, Pg. 18 HEADLINE: Smokescreen exposed BYLINE: Fred 
Pearce HIGHLIGHT: A new report suggests the Kyoto Protocol 
on climate change is unworkable BODY: FIRES are raging 
through tinderbox forests in America's western states, 
spilling greenhouse gases into the air. The US wants to use 

7) The Scotsman August 25, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 9 LENGTH: 1200 
words HEADLINE: RISING TIDE OF WEATHER WARNINGS BYLINE: 
Fred Bridgland BODY: TORNADOES ripping across eastern and 
western England. Much heavier rainfall in western Scotland. 
Snow in August in Wales. Oak trees in Britain coming into 
leaf three weeks earlier than they did in the 1950s. The 

8) BBC Online You are in: UK Politics 24 August, 2000, 
Prescott issues climate warning Mr Prescott meets the VIPs 
in Downing Street Industrialised countries must take urgent 
action to combat greenhouse gases and climate change, 
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has insisted. Mr 
Prescott gave this message when he met representatives of 

9) Texas Energy Firms Turn to Wind Power to Fulfill ...
 Aug. 25 (The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN)--The wind in West 
Texas is becoming nearly as essential as the Permian 
Basin's natural gas wells for Texas power companies. 
 Reliant Energy said Thursday that it will build the 
world's largest wind farm south of Odessa near McCamey in 

10) 08/25 Alaska Gov. Criticizes Jimmy Carter By T.A. BADGER 
Associated Press Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Gov. Tony 
Knowles angrily criticized former President Carter for 
traveling to Alaska to lobby for national monument status 
for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain. 
 Carter is in Alaska this week to commemorate the 20th 

FORESTS

11) Channel NewsAsia August 25, 2000 Friday SECTION: WORLD 
LENGTH: 140 words HEADLINE: Fires rage out of control in 
Brazil national park BODY: Fires are raging out of control 
in a major national park in south-eastern Brazil. The fires 
are believed to have been started by arsonists a week ago 
in the Serra da Canastra National Park. Raging fires have 

12) 08/24 Brazil worried by possible impact of U.S. anti-drug...
By STAN LEHMAN Associated Press Writer SAO PAULO, Brazil 
(AP) -- Brazil is worried that the possible use of 
defoliants in Colombia's U.S.-backed plan to combat drug 
production could damage its Amazon rain forest, a Foreign 
Ministry official said Thursday. The environmental impact 

13) The Vancouver Sun August 25, 2000, FINAL SECTION: Business; 
F1 / Front HEADLINE: Another U.S. firm joins 
anti-old-growth drive: Forest Alliance of B.C. says the 
province's lumber producer can live with the phase-out of 
purchases announced by 84 Lumber Ltd. BYLINE: Gordon 
Hamilton BODY: America's fourth-largest lumber retailer has 

14) The Guardian (London) August 25, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Home Pages, Pg. 6 HEADLINE: Wildlife protection plans 
unveiled: 81 extra English sites to be listed as areas of 
European importance BYLINE: James Meikle BODY: Wildlife 
campaigners yesterday welcomed a big increase in the number 
of rare species and habitats that are to be given extra 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

15) Strategy August 28, 2000 SECTION: News; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: 
What's Hot BODY: MODIFY THIS The idea of genetically 
modified foods doesn't appear to be all that popular among 
Canadians. According to a survey of 1,000 Canadian adults, 
conducted by Omnitel on behalf of the Canadian Health Food 
Association, roughly 60% of Canadians feel genetically 

16) Fed: Govt denies GM goats going to China unchecked BODY: By 
Linda McSweeny CANBERRA, Aug 25 AAP - The national gene 
regulator today confirmed a shipment of goats implanted 
with human genes was China-bound, but denied the federal 
government was illegally sending it off. The 600 goats 
containing human genes, dubbed transgenic goats, are to 

17) Financial Times ; 25-Aug-2000 WORLD NEWS: Rabobank takes up 
code on gene modified foods 12:00:00 am ; 316 words 
Rabobank, the world's biggest agricultural lender, will 
today warn businesses supplying genetically modified food 
that they should ensure consumers can choose whether to eat 
it. A code of conduct on gene modification, to be launched 

18) The Express August 25, 2000 HEADLINE: GM CROPS COST US 
FARMERS GBP 700M IN COST EXPORTS BYLINE: By John Ingham 
BODY: BRITISH farmers will be warned today that GM crops 
will become an albatross round their necks. The American 
Corn Growers Association says growing biotech crops is 
costing US farmers up to GBP 700million in lost markets as 

19) 08/24 WSJ(8/25): DuPont May Have To Pay More For Monsanto 
Gene By Scott Kilman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street 
Journal A federal-court jury's decision could force DuPont 
Co. to pay a lot more to continue using a gene owned by 
Monsanto Co. that is critical to DuPont's 
crop-biotechnology business. The St. Louis jury unanimously 

MILITARY

20) AP Worldstream August 25, 2000 HEADLINE: AP Photos BYLINE: 
ANGELA CHARLTON DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: The two nuclear 
reactors aboard the Kursk submarine were programmed to 
automatically shut down within a minute of the disaster 
that sent it crashing to the sea floor, Russian experts 
said Friday as worries mounted worldwide about radiation 

21) TASS HEADLINE: Ecologists to continue monitoring radiation 
background. BYLINE: By Vassily Belousov DATELINE: MURMANSK, 
August 25 BODY: Although no changes in the radiation level 
have been registered in the area where the Kursk submarine 
sank, ecologists in the Murmansk region remain concerned 
over the situation. According to weather forecasts, the 

22) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 25, 2000 HEADLINE: 1ST LEAD: 
Russia says Kursk reactors safe, collision still assumed 
DATELINE: Moscow BODY: Russia on Friday gave a top-level 
assurance that the twin reactors of the sunken submarine 
Kursk pose no danger, while the navy continued searching 
for a foreign submarine it believes rammed and sunk the 

23) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 25, 2000 HEADLINE: Norwegian 
spy plane registered explosions in Russian submarine 
DATELINE: Oslo BODY: Norwegian Orion surveillance aircraft 
on patrol in the Barents Sea registered two underwater 
explosions at the time of the disaster on board the Russian 
nuclear submarine Kursk, a newspaper report said on Friday. 

(Greenpeace)
24) The Washington Post August 25, 2000,Final Edition SECTION: 
OP-ED; Pg. A31 LENGTH: 823 words HEADLINE: Cold War Games, 
Dangerously Old BYLINE: Joshua Handler BODY: "We don't 
discuss submarine operations, other than to say that our 
submarines operate throughout the waters of the world. But 
we don't discuss the specifics of submarine operations or 

(Greenpeace)
25) The New York Times August 25, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: A; Page 10; Column 5; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 651 
words HEADLINE: For Now, Experts Discount Radiation Peril 
From Sub BYLINE: By KENNETH CHANG BODY: The two nuclear 
reactors in the sunken Russian submarine Kursk should pose 
no immediate risk to the surrounding environment and only a 

(Greenpeace)
26) Newsday (New York, NY) August 25, 2000, ALL EDITIONS 
SECTION: NEWS; Page A22 LENGTH: 798 words HEADLINE: RUSSIA 
FACES KURSK DILEMMA / RADIOACTIVE LEAK A THREAT WHETHER OR 
NOT SUNKEN NUCLEAR SUB IS RAISED BYLINE: By Robert Cooke. 
 STAFF WRITER BODY: The Russians now face the politically 
and technically delicate problem of what to do-or not 

27) The Ottawa Citizen August 25, 2000, EARLY SECTION: News; A3 
HEADLINE: It's time for NATO to reconsider nuclear policy: 
experts: Canada should follow other countries in limiting 
support for nuclear arsenal BYLINE: James Baxter BODY: 
Paranoia and politics are threatening to open a massive 
fissure between the United States and other NATO members 

28) The Guardian (London) August 25, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Home Pages, Pg. 6 HEADLINE: In brief: MoD releases nuclear 
details BODY: The Ministry of Defence has bowed to pressure 
from the Gibraltar government to provide classified 
information about its nuclear -powered submarine fleet in 
an attempt to allay fears about plans to repair HMS 

NUCLEAR POWER

(Greenpeace)
29) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Havel demands nuclear plant 
safety report DATELINE: PRAGUE, Aug 25 BODY: Czech 
President Vaclav Havel demanded Friday a detailed report on 
safety at the country's still-to-be-completed Temelin 
nuclear power plant after fears raised by Greenpeace. A 
presidential spokesman said Havel had written to his 

30) 08/24 DJ Police To Make Arrests In Japanese Nuclear 
Accident-Kyodo MITO, Japan (Dow Jones)--Police plan to 
arrest about three employees of JCO Co., operators of a 
uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, Ibaraki 
Prefecture, over a fatal nuclear chain reaction last 
September that killed two JCO workers and exposed hundreds 

31) TASS HEADLINE: Scientists to assess foreign nuclear waste 
safety, Kasyanov. BYLINE: By Yelena Kornysheva DATELINE: 
SAROV, the Nizhni Novgorod region, August 25 BODY: Russia 
will decide to store foreign nuclear waste only if 
scientists give convincing arguments about its safety for 
Russia's environment and citizens, Prime Minister Mikhail 

32) New Scientist August 26, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 15 
HEADLINE: Exposure BYLINE: Rob Edwards HIGHLIGHT: Are 
radiation monitors accurate ? BODY: THOUSANDS of workers in 
nuclear plants, hospitals, universities and industry are 
being exposed to higher levels of radiation than they 
realise. A new European study has discovered that the 

OCEANS

33) Times Colonist (Victoria) Friday, August 25, 2000 EDITION 
Final Capital Region PAGE B2 Escaped Atlantic salmon 
learning to feed in wild: Researcher says half-dozen caught 
by commercial boats show evidence of adapting Carla Wilson 
A researcher has uncovered evidence that shows farmed 
Atlantic salmon can learn to feed in the wild. Researcher 

(Greenpeace)
34) The Seattle Times 25/08/2000, US (Online) Friday, August 
25, 2000, 12:00 a.m. Pacific Close-Up The great whaling 
debate: Japanese institute becomes a focus of arguments 
over age-old practice by Uli Schmetzer Chicago Tribune 
TOKYO - Behind the wharfs in Tokyo's Toyomi-Cho district, 
the Institute of Cetacean Research is making sure Japanese 

TOXICS

(Greenpeace)
35) Oly: Cleanup of Homebush Bay proposal slammed by green 
groups BODY: By Denise McNamara SYDNEY, Aug 25 AAP - A 
decision to transport toxic waste to Queensland instead of 
destroying it on site at Homebush Bay in Sydney was putting 
communities at unnecessary risk, green groups said today. 
 The New South Wales Government today announced a preferred 

36) The Ottawa Citizen August 25, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A5 
HEADLINE: Activists hope to sabotage Olympic bid: Group 
denounces Toronto's plan to dump garbage in Northern 
Ontario mine BYLINE: April Lindgren DATELINE: TORONTO BODY: 
TORONTO -- Opponents of Toronto's plan to dump millions of 
tonnes of garbage into a Northern Ontario mine are 

37) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Agency detects 2nd 
highest level of dioxin in Fukuoka river DATELINE: TOKYO, 
Aug. 25 Kyodo BODY: The Environment Agency has detected 
dioxin with a concentration of 350 picograms per liter in 
the Omuta River in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, the second 
highest level ever found in a river or sea in Japan, agency 

38) The Guardian (London) August 25, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Home Pages, Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Organic foods 'not more 
nutritious' BYLINE: James Meikle BODY: The debate over the 
benefits of organic foods took a new twist yesterday after 
the government's food standards agency played down 
suggestions that they were healthier than conventionally 

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