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Global News Headlines - May 20
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Sunday, May 20, 2001
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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An overview of the environmental news of the day
ATMOSPHERE
1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: EU presidency divided over
confronting US on environment BYLINE: Gael Branchereau
DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, May 19 BODY: Sweden, currently
chairing the European Union, is divided over whether to
confront Washington's controversial environment plans,
fearing it could damage dialogue between the EU and
2) New Zealand Herald May 21, 2001
[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=190023&-
&thesection=news&thesubsection=general&reportID=59051]
Budget 20 The Government says research, not tax, is the way
to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in agriculture.
'Flatulence tax' impossible 21.05.2001 By ANNE BESTON The
3) 05/18 Greens Warn Bush of Opposition to Come By Jason Hopps
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Green Party has warned
President Bush his plan to tackle the U.S. energy crisis
would face a barrage of criticism at a European Union
summit next month. Jean Lambert, Green Party spokeswoman
and European Parliament member, said on Friday Greens
4) 05/20 U.S. Has Special Role in Global Warming Fight-Annan
By Christopher Noble MEDFORD, Mass. (Reuters) - The United
States, as the world's biggest polluter, has a special
responsibility to help fight global warming and promote
conservation, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said on
Sunday. "The United States, as you probably know, is the
(Greenpeace)
5) Newsweek via MSNBC [http://www.msnbc.com/news/575879.asp]
Hitting a Handy Villain Activists boycott Esso over global
warming By Carla Power NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL May 28 issue
- The campaign had all the essential ingredients of a
high-visibility environmental crusade: a fashionable cause,
an accessible villain and Bianca Jagger. Earlier this
ENERGY
6) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) May 19, 2001 Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Step
toward space-based solar power SOURCE: Yomiuri BODY:
Researchers at the National Space Development Agency of
Japan (NASDA) and Kyoto University unveiled Friday a system
to test technology by which electricity generated in space
using light from the sun is converted into microwaves and
7) THE ORLANDO SENTINEL May 20, 2001 METRO ORANGE; Pg. K8
HEADLINE: PROJECT TAPS WIND POWER BODY: CULEBRA, Puerto
Rico -- Famous for its Flamenco Beach, Culebritas lighthouse
and Phosphorescent Bay, this island municipality may soon
be known as well for its windmills. Culebra has launched a
$2 million pilot project to build a wind- powered
FORESTS
8) Bush's energy plan to affect forest road ban-USDA
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Agriculture Secretary Ann
Veneman said on Friday President George W. Bush's energy
package will influence the department's decisions on how it
implements a ban prohibiting the removal of oil and lumber
from nearly a third of U.S. forests. "Because we are going
9) The San Francisco Chronicle MAY 20, 2001, FINAL EDITION
NEWS; Pg. A25 HEADLINE: Firefighters fear hot times await
tinder-dry state; Early blazes burn 1,500 acres SOURCE:
Chronicle Environment Writer BYLINE: Jane Kay BODY:
California's wildfires got a jump on the season this year,
already burning more than 1,500 acres of trees in three
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(Greenpeace)
10) Independent on Sunday (London) May 20, 2001, NEWS; Pg. 2
HEADLINE: GOVERNMENT TURNS ON ITS GM ALLIES BYLINE:
Geoffrey Lean Environment Editor BODY: AGRICULTURE
ministers have turned on their allies in the genetic
modification industry to try to save Europe's largest
organic farming research centre. In an unprecedented
MILITARY
11) BBC Online World: Americas 20 May, 2001,
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_134-
40000/1340376.stm] Russia defiant on US defence shie [Photo
caption: Russia worries the defence plans could lead to an
arms race] By Richard Lister in Washington Russian Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov has left the United States saying
12) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) May 19, 2001, Pg. 20 HEADLINE:
Fears over Kursk salvage By Marcus Warren in Moscow BODY:
THE operation of raising the Kursk, the Russian nuclear
submarine that sank with 118 crew, was plunged into
controversy last night after Russia hired a firm with
little experience of sea salvage. The Dutch company Mammoet
13) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Russia unconvinced by US
arguments for missile shield: Ivanov BYLINE: Christophe de
Roquefeuil DATELINE: WASHINGTON, May 19 BODY: Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Saturday said his country
remained unconvinced by US arguments in favor of deploying
a national missile defense (NMD) shield, but expressed
14) The New York Times May 20, 2001, Late Edition - Final
Section 1; Page 1; Column 5; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: U.S.
Germ Warfare Review Faults Plan on Enforcement By MICHAEL
R. GORDON and JUDITH MILLER BODY: A confidential Bush
administration review has recommended that the United
States not accept a draft agreement to enforce the treaty
15) The New York Times May 20, 2001, Late Edition - Final
Section 1; Page 22; Column 3; National Desk HEADLINE:
Change in Plutonium Disposal Plan Draws Complaints By
MATTHEW L. WALD DATELINE: WASHINGTON, May 19 BODY: The Bush
administration has postponed a major part of the Energy
Department's plan to dispose of plutonium left over from
NUCLEAR POWER
16) Independent on Sunday (London) May 20, 2001, FEATURES; Pg.
18,19,21,22 HEADLINE: CHILDREN OF THE POISONED VALLEY;
THE INDIAN STATE OF JHARKLAND IS OSTENSIBLY AN EARTHLY
PARADISE, BLESSED WITH GREEN HILLS, LUSH FORESTS AND
FERTILE SOIL. BUT ITS RICHEST RESOURCE IS ALSO ITS
DEADLIEST: URANIUM. PETER POPHAM REPORTS ON A HUMAN
17) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) May 19, 2001 Pg. 3 HEADLINE:
Undecided vote confuses N-plant poll BYLINE: Takashi
Yoshidaand Atsushi Miyazaki Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
SOURCE: Yomiuri DATELINE: NIIGATA BODY: A referendum by
residents of Kariwamura, Niigata Prefecture, on whether
their village should accept a pluthermal project at a local
18) Independent on Sunday (London) May 20, 2001, NEWS; Pg. 5
312 words HEADLINE: WORKERS FLEE FIRE AT NUCLEAR REACTOR
BYLINE: Maria Williams BODY: HUNDREDS OF people were
evacuated from the Dungeness nuclear power plant in Kent
after a fire broke out near one of the reactors yesterday.
Residents living nearby saw steam and black smoke
(Greenpeace)
19) Sunday Mirror May 20, 2001, NEWS; Pg. 27 600 words
HEADLINE: CARGOES OF DOOM; EXCLUSIVE: HOW RADIOACTIVE
URANIUM IS FLOWN OVER BRITAIN BYLINE: Don Mackay BODY:
PLANE-LOADS of deadly nuclear bomb parts are being
regularly flown over Britain's towns and cities. The
cargoes are loaded onto ageing RAF jets and flown to the
20) The Guardian (London) May 19, 2001 Guardian Foreign Pages,
Pg. 15 HEADLINE: America's big new atomic waste site will
be at Yucca mountain - unless a coalition of opponents can
stop it: Nevada: from viva Vegas to nuclear dump BYLINE:
Duncan Campbell in Amargosa valley, southern Nevada BODY:
The only sound is the humming of desert flies, the only
21) Los Angeles Times May 19, 2001 Home Edition Part A; Part
1; Page 15; National Desk HEADLINE: THE NATION; THE ENERGY
CRISIS; Bush Touch Is a Big Boost to Nuclear Industry;
Policy: He's proposing ways to build, revitalize plants.
But he may be reigniting old protests. BYLINE: AARON
ZITNER, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: It
OCEANS
22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Huge red tide spotted in
East China Sea DATELINE: BEIJING, May 20 BODY: A huge red
tide of algae measuring some 2,800 square kilometers (1,200
square miles) has been spotted in the East China Sea off
the mouth of the Yangtze River, state press reported Sunday.
The government has issued warnings and ordered local marine
23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Congo-Brazzaville bans shark
fishing DATELINE: BRAZZAVILLE, May 20 BODY: The government
of Congo-Brazzaville has banned shark fishing off its
Atlantic coast to prevent depletion of stocks caused by
massive demand in Asia for shark fins, the government
announced Sunday. The ban was effective from mid-May,
(Greenpeace)
24) AP Worldstream May 19, 2001; 270 words HEADLINE: St.
Vincent won't support whale sanctuary BYLINE: E. GLENFORD
PRESCOTT DATELINE: KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent BODY: St. Vincent
and the Grenadines won't support a proposed whale sanctuary
in the South Pacific at the upcoming meeting of the
International Whaling Commission, the agriculture secretary
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
25) World ready to outlaw ``dirty dozen'' pollutants By Alister
Doyle STOCKHOLM, May 20 (Reuters) - More than 120 nations
will formally agree a pact on Tuesday to outlaw or minimise
use of a "dirty dozen" toxic chemicals blamed for causing
fatal diseases and birth defects among humans and animals.
The chemicals, used in pesticides to kill termites, in
26) Agence France Presse 724 words HEADLINE: Chemical
pollution: The "Dirty Dozen" head West DATELINE: STOCKHOLM,
May 20 BODY: A dozen notoriously toxic chemicals will be
outlawed or restricted around the world under a landmark UN
treaty set to be signed here this week. In a rare piece of
good news about the global environment, the accord will
X-OTHER-X
27) The Observer, UK
[http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,493390,00.h-
html] BSE crisis talks over risk from cattle cu Paul Harris
and Jason Burke Sunday May 20, 2001 The Observer Ministers
have summoned their top scientific advisers to an emergency
meeting as fears mount that ash and the buried carcasses of
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