Global News Headlines 09/06

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Wednesday, September 6, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

(Greenpeace)
1) 09/06 Greenpeace Australia Hails Suncor Halt On Stuart Oil 
Project CANBERRA (Dow Jones)--Environmental group 
Greenpeace Australia welcomed Wednesday an overnight 
decision by Suncor Energy Inc. (SU) of Canada to put on 
hold the second stage of the Stuart shale oil project in 
Queensland state. "Suncor has clearly seen the writing on 

2) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence September 6, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 3 LENGTH: 102 words HEADLINE: Cover up call as 
hole in ozone expands SOURCE: The West Australian ABSTRACT: 
Western Australians have been told to cover up as 
scientists gear up for one of the worst ozone holes on 
record. The World Meteorological Organisation warned that 

3) The Toronto Star September 6, 2000, SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 
342 words HEADLINE: 6 DEAD, 50,000 HOMELESS IN BANGLADESH 
FLOODING BODY: Aid workers fear disease, violence SANDWIP, 
Bangladesh (Reuters) - At least 50,000 people remain 
homeless after a tidal surge flooded Bangladesh's Sandwip 
Island with up to 2.4 metres of water last week, officials 

4) The Vancouver Sun September 6, 2000, SECTION: News; A3 
LENGTH: 517 words HEADLINE: Canada says it is slowing 
growth of its greenhouse gas emissions: Still one of the 
globe's main sources of harmful gasses, progress is being 
made in tackling the problem, a study says. BYLINE: Peter 
O'Neil DATELINE: OTTAWA BODY: OTTAWA -- Canada, still one 

5) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 442 words HEADLINE: High oil 
prices will help fight global warming, says UN official 
BYLINE: Odile Meuvret DATELINE: LYON, France, Sept 6 BODY: 
Higher oil prices will help efforts to fight global warming 
but only if they are sustained, the UN's top official on 
climate change said Wednesday. Robert Watson, head of the 

6) OTC 09/05 ENVIRONMENT-PERU: ANDEAN THAW COULD UNLEASH ...
 LIMA, (Sep. 4) IPS - A warming process in Peru's Andes 
mountains, where ice and snow is melting at an accelerated 
rate, is jeopardizing water supplies to farms and urban 
areas in the region and could eventually spark devastating 
mudslides. Scientists and environmentalists warn that a 

(Greenpeace)
7) The San Francisco Chronicle SEPTEMBER 6, 2000,SECTION: 
NEWS; Pg. A10 LENGTH: 1018 words HEADLINE: Putin's Policies 
Shake Russia's Environmentalists; They fear he'll allow 
polluters to go unpunished BYLINE: Phillip Ittner BODY: 
Russian environmentalists are becoming increasingly alarmed 
over what they claim is President Vladimir Putin's campaign 

8) The Guardian (London) September 6, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
City Pages, Pg. 29 LENGTH: 922 words HEADLINE: West pumps 
up pressure over oil prices; News Analysis Us And Europe 
Hope Saudi Arabia Will Ease The Pain By Persuading Opec To 
Open The Taps BYLINE: Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny 
BODY: The eyes of the global oil markets will be on Crown 

FORESTS

(Greenpeace)
9) The Globe and Mail, Canada, September 6, 2000, Online, 
Charges loom after protest at B.C. sawmill Greenpeace 
invades Interfor plant it says processes wood from 
imperilled rain forest WENDY STUECK British Columbia Bureau 
Wednesday, September 6, 2000 Vancouver -- Police in New 
Westminster, B.C., will recommend mischief charges against 

10) The Christian Science Monitor September 6, 2000, SECTION: 
USA; Pg. 2 LENGTH: 831 words HEADLINE: Roots of West's 
wildfires: conservation or logging? BYLINE: Brad 
Knickerbocker, HIGHLIGHT: Conflagration highlights the 
ongoing tension between the Old West and new. BODY: Traffic 
along the two-lane roads paralleling the Umpqua River tells 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

(Greenpeace)
11) Reuters Brazil soy farmers tap GM black market in key state 
BRAZIL: September 6, 2000 RIO DE JANEIRO - Farmers in one 
of Brazil's top soybean states may have planted over a 
third of their 2000/01 crop with banned genetically 
modified (GM) seeds, likely smuggled from Argentina, 
industry sources said yesterday. According to the Brazilian 

12) Birmingham Post September 6, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 3 LENGTH: 
508 words HEADLINE: GRIM FACES GREET GM FARMER; 
DEMONSTRATORS MAKE ANTI-CROP STAND BYLINE: Helen Bruce And 
Richard Warburton BODY: A peaceful village was at the 
centre of a demonstration yesterday as environmental 
campaigners tried to thwart a farmer's third attempt to grow

(Greenpeace)
13) Coventry Evening Telegraph September 5, 2000, SECTION: 
NEWS; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 198 words HEADLINE: MEP TO MISS GM 
PROTEST BODY: DEMONSTRATORS were to gather outside MEP 
Philip Bushill-Matthews's Harbury home today to voice their 
concerns about GM crop trials. But the Tory MEP will not be 
there, as he is carrying out his duties in the European 

(Greenpeace)
14) Birmingham Post September 6, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 7 LENGTH: 
211 words HEADLINE: GM CROPS ARE 'MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO 
MAN' BODY: Genetic modification is potentially the most 
serious environmental threat known to man, the executive 
director of Greenpeace told a court yesterday. Lord 
Melchett, 52, of Hunstanton, Norfolk, said genetic 

MILITARY

15) AP Worldstream September 6, 2000; LENGTH: 225 words 
HEADLINE: Russian official says all sailors died 
immediately on submarine DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: A deputy 
prime minister said Wednesday that there had never been any 
contact with the 118 Russian sailors aboard the Kursk 
nuclear submarine after it sank Aug. 12, and they were 

16) 09/06 Report: Early Nuclear Efforts Left Thousands Sick 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government secretly hired 
hundreds of private companies during the 1940s and 1950s to 
process huge amounts of nuclear weapons material leaving a 
legacy of poisoned workers and contaminated communities 
that lingers to this day, USA Today reported Wednesday. 

17) The New York Times September 6, 2000, Section A; Page 27; 
Column 2; Editorial Desk LENGTH: 523 words HEADLINE: World 
War III? Now? BYLINE: By Geoffrey E. Forden; Geoffrey 
Forden is senior fellow at the Center for International 
Studies, M.I.T., and former national security analyst at the
Congressional Budget Office. BODY: Now that decisions on 

NUCLEAR POWER

18) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 6, 2000, LENGTH: 288 words
HEADLINE: Bulgarian official says Kozloduy nuclear plant 
increasingly unsafe BODY: Sofia (dpa - Operational safety 
at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant on the Danube is 
diminishing at an alarming rate, a leading nuclear official 
said Wednesday. "There is an alarming trend towards safety 

(Greenpeace)
19) CTK National News Wire September 5, 2000 LENGTH: 304 words 
HEADLINE: TEMELIN WILL BE LAUNCHED AS SOON AS THE STATE 
OFFICE FOR BODY: Nuclear Safety (SUJB) grants permission 
for it, Roucek stressed. Roucek said earlier that the 
Saturday blockade had been a "hysterical and embarrassing" 
reaction by which Austria would discredit itself before the 

20) New nuclear reactor planned for Hokkaido in Japan TOKYO, 
Sept 6 (Reuters) - Officials on Japan's northern island of 
Hokkaido approved a new nuclear reactor this week, the 
second to get a go-ahead in the resource-poor country since 
a deadly accident last year, local authorities said on 
Wednesday. A spokesman for the Hokkaido government said 

21) Daily Record September 6, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4 
LENGTH: 265 words HEADLINE: LEGACY OF DEATH BODY: WHEN 
reactor number four exploded in a Ukrainian nuclear power 
station 14 years ago, no one knew what impact the event 
would have. But since April 26, 1986, Chernobyl has become 
the byword for nuclear disasters. The explosion and fire 

22) Financial Times, 04-Sep-2000, Online, FRONT PAGE: BNFL's 
long-term liabilities jump Pounds 7bn; 401 words By MATTHEW 
JONES The cost of decommissioning nuclear plants and 
cleaning up radioactive materials at British Nuclear Fuels, 
the state-owned atomic services group, has jumped Pounds 
7bn following a review of the group's long-term nuclear 

OCEANS

23) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence September 6, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 13 LENGTH: 102 words HEADLINE: Turtle 
slaughter upsets Fisheries SOURCE: The West Australian 
BYLINE: Sean Cowan ABSTRACT: Illegal Indonesian fishermen 
are butchering turtles on an island near the Western 
Australian coast and cutting them open to steal their eggs. 

24) AP Worldstream September 6, 2000; LENGTH: 457 words 
HEADLINE: Whale -weary Japanese brace for new dispute over 
tuna fishing BYLINE: GARY SCHAEFER BODY: Already under 
criticism for expanding its annual whale hunt, Japan is 
bracing for an even bigger fishing dispute with the United 
States over how to regulate the lucrative tuna industry. At 

(Greenpeace)
25) Baikal seal threatened by hunters and pollution, Greenpeace 
says MOSCOW, Sept 6 (AFP) - The survival of the Baikal seal 
is under threat from hunters and encroaching pollution in 
the immense Siberian lake after which it is named, the 
Russian branch of Greenpeace said Wednesday. The population 
of the Baikal seal, which is endemic to the freshwater Lake 

26) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT September 6, 2000 LENGTH: 78 words 
HEADLINE: Shipping industry pollutes the sea - report BODY: 
The Swedish nature protection administration has released a 
report which shows that the shipping industry is the source 
of more sulphur and nitrogen emissions in the Baltic Sea 
per year than the total amount of these emissions in all of 

27) 09/06 Tuna Agreement By BEN DiPIETRO HONOLULU (AP) -- The 
United States and several other nations have agreed to 
create a commission to regulate the catch of tuna in the 
Pacific Ocean, but Japan is threatening to ignore any new 
regulations if its concerns aren't addressed. Nineteen of 
24 nations attending a conference on migratory fish on 

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