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| Monsanto go beyond all possible bounds of decency |
| A US court has found that Monsanto was "so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society."
After five hours of deliberations over the course of two days, the jury decided to hold Monsanto and the company that now represents its chemical division liable on six counts: negligence, nuisance, suppression of the truth, trespass, wantonness and outrage. [delve]
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| Defecting greens threaten survival of environment movement |
Environmentalism as an argument has been comprehensively won. As a practice it is all but extinct. Just as people in Britain have united around the demand for effective public transport, car sales have broken all records. Yesterday the superstore chain Sainsbury's announced a 6% increase in sales: the number of its customers is now matched only by the number of people professing to deplore its impact on national life. The Guardian's environmental reporting is fuller than that of any other British newspaper, but on Saturday it was offering readers two transatlantic tickets for the price of one. [delve]
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| The GreenPages Directory |
A New Zealand directory of conservation and environment groups has been launched - check it out at www.greenpages.org.nz - and register your group. [delve]
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| Plunderer deserves no sympathy |
This week's media coverage of the Reefton goldmining issue has been unbelievably one-sided. Perth-based Gold and Resource Developments (GRD) has been painted as the good guy who is being frustrated in its efforts to create jobs and wealth on the West Coast. [delve]
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| Hard Gold Mine Decision |
The Australian owned company, GRD Macraes, needs permission from the Moinister of Conservation, Sandra Lee to go ahead with the multi-million dollar mine 300 metres deep in Victoria Forest Park near Reefton [delve]
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| Changing face of the Arctic |
A task force set up by US President George W Bush to examine energy policy in the United States is expected to report next week that more areas of the country should be opened for oil drilling. [delve]
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| Toxic Texan Threatens America's Last Wild Forests |
Action Alert from http://forests.org/
By May 4th, President Bush will determine the fate of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule that would end virtually all logging, roadbuilding, and oil and mineral leasing in 58 million acres of the wildest remaining U.S. national forests lands. Pressured by special interests and large corporate contributors, he has ordered the US Justice Department to determine how to scuttle the roadless area protection policy. Only a huge uproar can stop this latest threat to the environment from the "Toxic Texan". [delve]
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| WWF ECO-FORESTRY PROJECT OPERATING WITHOUT APPROVAL |
Bob Burton PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea,
April 4, 2001 (ENS) - The Papua New Guinea Forest Authority has revealed that an eco-forestry project run by the U.S. based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a model of well managed forestry, is logging mangrove forests without permission. Mangrove forests are excluded from logging under the PNG Code of Logging Practice. [delve]
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| THE DIOXIN DECEPTION |
Tamara Straus, AlterNet - The chemical dioxin is a proven deadly carcinogen. A new report reveals how the chemical industry is keeping this
information buried. [delve]
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| Global warming |
A draft report prepared for the world's governments says that the earth may heat up much more than current forecasts suggest. [delve]
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| Carbon sinks |
The government unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would allow the country to meet more than half of its greenhouse gas emission reductions simply by maintaining and managing its forests. Critics slam government 'sinks' proposal [more] and [delve]
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| BP solar adverts |
The rise and fall of the global climate coalition could this explain the BP solar adverts? [delve]
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| Waste Management |
The USA’s EPA claims that more than 25 years of scientific research that proves treated sewer sludge is safe to use as fertilizer. [more] - The compost-making firm has teamed up with rubbish collector Waste Management with a plan for disposing of Auckland's sewage sludge [delve]
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| Deadly garden products |
The USA’s EPA has concluded that one of the most commonly used pesticides, a compound sold as Dursban and found in dozens of home-and-garden products, may be more dangerous to people than previously thought. [delve]
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| Biosecurity alert in Auckland |
A biosecurity alert for a large area in and around Auckland, as it investigates a pest that poses a major threat to New Zealand's bee industry. [delve]
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| Remember World Park Antarctica? |
Remember World Park Antarctica ? The NZ public was hugely supportive of that successful campaign. Now Greenpeace is present with a base in the Arctic , confronting oil exploration at the North Star project site [more] The team is carrying out direct actions. [more] You can email the campaign. BP-Amoco responds [more] Watch the latest video [delve]
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| KENYA'S FOREST PLAN ROUSES OPPOSITION NAIROBI |
| Kenya, March 19, 2001 (ENS) - Opposition is growing to the Kenyan government's plan to clear more than 67,000 hectares (165,560 acres) of forest. The plan is to resettle landless people, largely at the foot of Mount Kenya. The Kenyan government says most of the land is already settled and now needs to be formally managed. [delve]
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| TEN COMPANIES CONTROL FATE OF WORLD'S FORESTS |
LONDON, United Kingdom, March 15, 2001 - Just 10 companies could halt logging old growth forests and still meet the world's industrial wood and wood fiber needs, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). [delve]
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| GREENHOUSE EFFECT CONFIRMED OVER 27 YEARS LONDON |
United Kingdom, March 15, 2001 (ENS) - While the political fight is heating up in Washington and Brussels over how to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases linked to climate change, scientists have published new evidence that global warming is really occurring. [delve]
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| ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SPLINTER UN FOREST ASSESSMENT |
ROME, Italy, March 12, 2001 (ENS) - A United Nations analysis that shows the global rate of deforestation is slowing was challenged today by two influential environmental groups. They claim the rate of deforestation may not be slowing at all and may have even increased in the tropics. [delve]
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| Legal funding available from Ministry for the Environment |
You can now apply for funding from Ministry for the Environment for court cases relating to environmental issues. Call (04)917-7400 Wellington, (09) 913-1640 Auckland, (03)365-4540 Christchurch for an application or download it from www.mfe.govt.nz. Funds can be used for expert witnesses and/or lawyers fees. Decisions will probably take about 6 weeks.
The fund can't be used at this stage for local body stuff; priority will be given to Environment Court hearings. The maximum amount is $20,000. [delve]
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| We do care! |
It is a well-established fallacy that only small numbers of people care about the environment. Though the polls might not show it. [delve]
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| EARTH MUST SUPPORT 77 MILLION NEW PEOPLE EACH YEAR |
By Cat Lazaroff
NEW YORK, New York, March 6, 2001 (ENS) - World population reached 6.1 billion in mid-2000 and is currently growing at an annual rate of 1.3 per cent, or 77 million people per year, shows a new report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report predicts that population could climb as high as 10,900 million by the year 2050. [delve]
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| BP - Beyond Petroleum or Beyond Propoganda? |
| Row as BP blocks debate on environment London - Oil giant BP is struggling to shake off accusations that it is stifling discussion of its environmental and human rights policies, in a furious row that goes to the heart of the climate change debate. [delve]
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| BHOPAL: Survivors Target Dow Chemical in India |
Three-hundred survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal protested at the Bombay office of Dow Chemical International this week demanding that Dow take on the outstanding liabilities left behind by the Union Carbide Corporation (which Dow now owns) in Bhopal. Together with environmental and labor groups, they launched a new National Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, targeting Dow. [delve]
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