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Global News Headlines - July 7
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NEWSLINK: Environmental News Headlines
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Sunday, July 7, 2002
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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An overview of the environmental news coverage of the day
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CLIMATE CHANGE
(Greenpeace)
1) Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Mon, Jul 8 2002;
Greenpeace urges Govt to explain shale oil project
assistance Greenpeace says a document leaked to the ABC
proves the Federal Government's decision to provide
financial assistance to the Stuart Shale Oil Project near
Gladstone, in central Queensland, was politically motivated....
Read the article:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/politics/2002/07/item20020707184128_1.htm
2) AFP; 329 words; Emergency operation in Italy to pump water
from melting glacier DATELINE: MACUGNAGA, Italy, July 6
BODY: Italian firefighters on Saturday struggled in bad
weather to launch a huge operation to pump water out of a
glacier, melting fast below the second highest mountain in
the Alps and putting a nearby ski resort at risk. Despite...
(Greenpeace)
3) Hoovers, USA, July 5, 2002 10:59pm; Coal-fired plants can
induce drought Coal-fired power plants can induce extreme
weather conditions like storms and droughts, Greenpeace
Southeast Asia warned yesterday. Militant environmentalists
gathered in front of a Makati City building that houses
Alstom, a French-British energy company engaged in the...
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http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20020706670.2_af3e0007e6704447
4) Sunday Mirror July 7, 2002, NEWS; Pg. 9; 228 words; FLOWER
POWER BY: Toby Mcdonald BODY: SCIENTISTS want to turn
Scotland's most famous plant into a green fuel for
motorists. Government experts are to conduct a two-year
study into using heather as an alternative to petrol within
five years. The pounds 100,000 research project has been...
5) Press Association July 7, 2002, 187 words; DUNG-FIRED
POWER STATION 'TO START FEEDING GRID SOON' BY: Chris Court,
BODY: Britain's first dung-fired power station could start
producing electricity for the National Grid within the next
couple of weeks, it emerged today. The pioneering œ 7.7
million complex will run on about 1.6...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
6) Sydney Morning Herald July 6, 2002; News And Features;
News Review; Pg. 32; 1085 words; HEADLINE: Bad Seed BY:
Stephanie Peatling BODY: Beautiful, yellow fields of canola
will hold a new peril if genetically modified seed is
released, say farmers who spoke to Stephanie Peatling.
ARTHUR Bowman bristles at the suggestion he is a Luddite....
7) AFP; 903 words; Genetic modification a burning issue for
NZ election BY: JENNIFER LITTLE DATELINE: AUCKLAND, July 7
BODY: Celebrity chefs, a Hollywood actor, a squash champion
and a farming spokesman are the latest to join a debate
about genetic modification (GM) that is becoming a pivotal
issue in the general elections due here in three weeks....
8) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 06, 2002, Pg. 18; 370
words; Vote blights Britain's GM harvest Eurofile BY:
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels BODY: THE struggle
between the European Union and America over gene
manipulation came to a head this week. The scientific and
ethical clash leaves US-aligned Britain caught on the wrong...
9) New Scientist; July 6, 2002; Comment; ISSN. 0262 4079;
Vol. 175; Pg. 3; 772 words; HEADLINE: Here we go again
HIGHLIGHT: Plans to add drug genes to food crops prove
we've learned nothing BODY: FORESIGHT has been conspicuous
by its absence in the unfolding revolution in genetic
modification. That applies not only to agribiotech...
(Greenpeace)
10) New Scientist; July 6, 2002; News; ISSN. 0262 4079; Vol.
175; Pg. 4; 901 words; Drug genes could enter food chain
BYLINE: Philip Cohen; San Francisco HIGHLIGHT: Loopholes in
US regulations raise fears that food crops will be
contaminated with pharmaceuticals BODY: THE rules the US
government is proposing for field tests of crops that have...
MILITARY
11) The Times (London) July 6, 2002, Overseas news; 16; 870
words; Arms talks deadlock brings Iraq invasion closer BY:
Roland Watson in Washington, Richard Beeston Diplomatic
Editor and Jane BODY: The likelihood of an attack by the
United States against Iraq increased last night after
United Nations negotiations with Iraq failed and the...
12) The Washington Post July 07, 2002, Final Edition; Pg. A08;
1942 words; Ambitious Nuclear Arms Pact Faces a Senate
Examination; Minimal Details and Huge Warhead Cuts Embody
Bush Policy BY: Peter Slevin BODY: The Senate opens
hearings Tuesday on the shortest yet one of the most far-
reaching treaties in four decades of arms accords with...
NUCLEAR POWER
13) Sydney Morning Herald; July 6, 2002; News And Features;
International News; Pg. 16; 405 words; Reactor Company
Caught Up In Protests BY: Clinton Porteous BODY: Angry
Argentinians, plunged into poverty by the country's
economic collapse, have blockaded the airport in the city
that is the base for the nuclear power company that is to...
(Greenpeace)
14) Agence France Presse; 260 words; Anti-nuclear boats leave
Auckland to protest nuke waste ships DATELINE: AUCKLAND,
July 7 BODY: Prime Minister Helen Clark joined a large
crowd in Auckland Sunday to send off a flotilla of boats
setting sail to protest against two ships carrying reject
plutonium en route from Japan to England. Clark, an...
(Greenpeace)
15) The Mirror July 6, 2002, NEWS; Pg. 16,17; 736 words; IT'S
ATOMIC MADNESS; NUKE SHIP SAILS FOR IRISH SEA WITH 50
'A-BOMBS' BY: Niall Moonan HIGHLIGHT: CARGO OF DEATH: A
nuclear fuel transport ship leaves a nuclear plant in
Takahama 300 kilometres from Tokyo carrying potentially
lethal waste; RUINS: Hiroshima after bomb; TERROR: A...
16) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo); July 6, 2002; Pg. 3; 898 words;
Guidelines needed for reactor demolition BY: Kyoichi
Sasazawa BODY: Thirty-six years after the nation's first
nuclear reactor began commercial operation, the
decommissioning of old reactors is becoming a headache for
power companies. Just as their European and U.S....
(Greenpeace)
17) The Boston Globe, USA, 6 Juy 2002; Pg. A9; Japan defends
fuel transport Says radioactive shipment is safe By
Associated Press, 7/6/2002 TOKYO - Japan yesterday defended
its decision to transport nuclear fuel to Britain by sea,
denying criticism that the shipment was vulnerable to
terrorist attack or could be used for making nuclear...
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http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/187/nation/Japan_defends_fuel_transport+.shtml
18) New Scientist; July 6, 2002; News; ISSN. 0262 4079; Vol.
175; Pg. 12; 153 words; HEADLINE: We hear that...
BODY: A LONE racoon managed to shut down one of America's
biggest nuclear power plants last month. The forest-loving
creature brought the Grand Gulf nuclear power station in
Mississippi to a grinding halt after finding its way over a...
19) The Miami Herald; July 7, 2002 FL EDITION; A; Pg. 23; 812
words; Experts divided on risks of burying nuclear waste
BY: SETH BORENSTEIN Herald Washington Bureau DATELINE:
YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev. BODY: Scientists can't agree on the
answer to a key scientific question that could determine
the fate of the federal government's plan to store the...
20) The Associated Press July 6, 2002, 628 words; Spaceshots,
ocean floor, remote islands, other states all rejected in
search for alternative to Nevada for nuclear waste dump BY:
H. JOSEF HEBERT DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: Every year the
country's commercial power plants generate 2,000 tons of
spent reactor fuel, creating a pile of highly radioactive...
OCEANS
21) The Times (London); July 6, 2002, SECTION: Overseas news;
19; 287 words; Oil spills near Galapagos isles BY: Hannah
Hennessy BODY: A barge has spewed nearly 2,000 gallons of
diesel fuel into the Pacific Ocean near the Galapagos
Islands, just 18 months after a large spill hit Charles
Darwin's "enchanted isles". The local boat, which was...
22) Agence France Presse; 296 words; Fuel spill in Galapagos
islands not likely to damage fragile ecosystem DATELINE:
QUITO, July 6 BODY: Relieved biologists said Saturday that
it was unlikely that the fragile ecosystem of the Galapagos
Islands would suffer damage from a 2,000-gallon
(7,400-liter) oil spill earlier in the week. There were no...
23) The Independent (London) July 6, 2002, FOREIGN NEWS; Pg.
12; 646 words; FOR SALE: RUSSIA'S KILLER WHALES, $ 1M A HEAD
BY: Paul Kelbie; Populations of killer whales have been
severely depleted to feed the marine entertainment industry
Ardea BODY: THE RUSSIAN government is offering hunters the
chance to capture and sell killer whales into captivity for...
TOXICS
24) AFP; 112 words; Solvent poisons 200 Salvadoran workers
DATELINE: SAN SALVADOR, July 6 BODY: Some 200 workers fell
ill at a garment factory outside El Salvador's capital
Friday and had to be hospitalized after inhaling a chemical
solvent, health authorities said. "The people were poisoned
by carbon tetrachloride, a highly toxic substance for the...
(Greenpeace)
25) The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) July 6, 2002; METRO; Pg.
1; 406 words; Norco residents rejoice in buyout; Shell
offers to purchase all homes in Diamond BY: Mary Swerczek;
BODY: It was a celebration more than three decades in the
making. Residents of Norco's Diamond community, local and
national environmentalists and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a...
26) Newsday (New York, NY) July 7, 2002 QUEENS EDITION; NEWS,
Pg. A06; 400 words; Activists Trash Waste Plan; Say
Caribbean not city's dumpsite BY: Dan Janison. BODY: The
Bloomberg administration calls the chances remote, but a
mere whiff of the idea of sending tons of city trash to the
Caribbean has some activists fuming. "The countries of the...
27) The New York Times July 6, 2002, Late Edition - Final;
Section A; Page 12; Column 1; Editorial Desk; 419 words;
Shortchanging Superfund BODY: A report last week that the
Bush administration plans to cut cleanup funds at 33 of the
country's biggest toxic waste sites drew predictable howls
from Democrats that the White House was again sabotaging the...
X-OTHER-X
28) The Mirror July 6, 2002, NEWS; Pg. 16; 70 words; IRISH
WON'T GO ORGANIC BODY: IRISH people eat 80 per cent less
organic food than other Europeans, experts revealed
yesterday. A Teagasc report showed 0.4 per cent of food
here is organic, compared with two per cent in the rest of
the EU. There are just 1,000 organic farmers in Ireland on...
29) The Economist; July 6, 2002 U.S. Edition; SECTION: SURVEY;
1866 words; HEADLINE: The great race BODY: SUSTAINABLE
development is a dangerously slippery concept. Who could
possibly be against something that invokes such alluring
images of untouched wildernesses and happy creatures? The
difficulty comes in trying to reconcile the "development"...
(Greenpeace)
30) The Observer, UK, July 7, 2002; The world's ticking
timebomb Earth 'will expire by 2050' Our planet is running
out of room and resources. Modern man has plundered so
much, a damning report claims this week, that outer space
will have to be colonised The end of earth as we know it?
Talk about it here Observer Worldview By: Mark Townsend and...
Read the article:
http://observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,750782,00.html
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