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Environment Action
Alerts for
February 24 - February 28, 2001
from Greenpeace February 25, 2001
Greenpeace Activist News Vol. 1, No. 2
25 February 2001
RAINBOW WARRIOR SAILS TO CONFRONT US STAR WARS PROGRAM
Incoming US President George W. Bush
is moving rapidly ahead with a "Star Wars" program to spend billions of dollars
building a system to shoot down missiles with yet more missiles. If this program
continues, it will violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and may start
a new nuclear arms race.
On 13
February, the Rainbow Warrior set sail for the remote Pacific atoll of Kwajalein
in the Marshall Islands where, in March, we will confront the US military and
oppose a scheduled Star Wars test.
We need your help. Please visit our Cyberactivist Centre at
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/983102960
and send letters to US Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Danish Prime
Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
FLOTILLA TO CONFRONT PLUTONIUM SHIPMENT IN TASMAN SEA
On 18 February, a flotilla of seven
ships left Australia and New Zealand for the Tasman Sea, to confront
a shipment of weapons-usable plutonium fuel, or MOX (mixed oxide), bound for
western Japan. The shipment started its 30,000 km voyage in Cherbourg, France on
19 January. Please help us oppose these plutonium shipments by sending a letter
to your local Japanese embassy at
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/ams/e?a=MOX&s=s02
EMERGENCY ACTION NEEDED ON
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Genetically-contaminated food from the United States is now
spreading around the world and has been detected in countries as far apart as
Canada and Japan.
The US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) is accepting comments on genetically engineered food until Wednesday, 28
February. Please take a moment today and urge the USDA to support GE labelling
by sending a letter from our Cyberactivist Centre at
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/ams/e?a=USDA&s=s01
HALT OIL DRILLING IN THE
ARCTIC OCEAN
Giant oil company
BP is invading the Arctic Ocean. It has not yet completed its Northstar
development in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, but it has already applied to
construct a twin of Northstar, the "Liberty" project. Global climate change is
no where more obvious than in the Arctic Ocean, which has lost almost half its
sea ice over the last forty years, threatening both local polar bear and walrus
populations and throwing the world weather system into chaos.
Ironically, BP, a major producer of
the largest cause of climate change, oil, is determined to drill beneath the
rapidly shrinking Arctic ice pack. Please write to the US Minerals Management
Service and oppose the Liberty project by going to:
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/983108143
ACTION GROUPS STARTING UP
Greenpeace is starting an experiment
in setting up international action groups of cyberactivists who want to work
together on a common campaign or to share information in a common language or
about a common country or region. If you want to get involved or find out more,
visit our Cyberactivist Centre at
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/983037999
GREENPEACE JAPAN LAUNCHES
CYBERACTIVIST CENTRE
This
Japanese cyberactivist centre is one of a number of cyberactivist centres in
several languages that Greenpeace will be launching in the next few months.
(Requires Japanese browser extensions):
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/m0?sc=ja0&st=0
BECOME A RAINFOREST
CYBERSLEUTH
Help to uncover the
products of temperate rainforest destruction
Greenpeace needs your help to track down forest products
that have been logged in the Great Bear Rainforest on Canada. s west coast, home
to bears, wolves, salmon and eagles. We are asking people all over the world to
track down wood products that have been clearcut logged from Canada. s
rainforest by International Forest Products (Interfor) and West Fraser Timber.
Please visit:
http://www.greenpeace.org/~forests/sleuths/
HELP US OPPOSE NORWEGIAN WHALE
EXPORTS
On 17 January, the
government of Norway announced that it would approve the export of whale meat
and blubber under certain conditions. Hundreds of tons of minke whale products,
often packed in cartons labeled in Japanese, are waiting in warehouses in
Norway. Please send a letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister opposing these
exports from:
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s/ams/e?a=NorWhaleAlert&s=s01
VISIT THE CYBERCENTRE
Please don't forget to visit the
Greenpeace Cyberactivist Community at:
http://cybercentre.greenpeace.org/t/s
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from Environment News Service February 26, 2001
ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE
(ENS) http://ens-news.com
"We
Cover the Earth For You"
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SLAUGHTER BEGINS AS UK TACKLES
FOOT AND MOUTH OUTBREAK
LONDON, United Kingdom, February 26, 2001 (ENS) - The UK
has prohibited
the movement of all sheep, cattle, pigs
and goats in response to the
worst outbreak of foot and
mouth disease in 30 years. The public have
been warned
not to gather in rural areas, marches have been canceled and
sporting events are being reconsidered in light of the
highly contagious
disease.
For full text and graphics visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-26-10.html
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CANADIAN ARCTIC AWAITS NEXT
BIG QUAKE
IQALUIT, Nunavut,
Canada, February 26, 2001 (ENS) - Recent earthquakes
in India and El Salvador have prompted
researchers to remind Canadians
of the risks they face
from tremors, particularly in the north.
For full text and graphics visit:
http://ens-news.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-26-11.html
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ICY FINGERPRINTS MAY UNRAVEL
SEA LEVEL MYSTERY
TORONTO,
Canada, February 26, 2001 (ENS) - The assumption that melting
ice caps will flood coastal locations evenly has been
dispelled by
researchers at the University of Toronto.
For full text and graphics,
visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-26-13.html
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TIME AND FOREST RUNNING OUT
FOR THE ORANGUTAN
NEW YORK,
New York, February 26, 2001 (ENS) - The world's largest
natural orangutan population will be extinct in about a
decade unless
poaching and habitat destruction is
stopped. That is the finding of
research funded by the
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), based at the
Bronx
Zoo.
For full text and
graphics, visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-26-12.html
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TO STATE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND
FEATURES EDITORS:
Dates Set
for Delaware River Sojourn
WEST TRENTON, N.J., Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- The Delaware River Sojourn,
an annual event
to heighten the awareness of and appreciation for the
longest un-dammed river east of the Mississippi, will be
held June 15
through June 23, 2001. This year's sojourn
is titled "2001 - A River
Odyssey."
/CONTACT: Christopher Roberts of
the Delaware River Basin Commission,
609-883-9500, ext.
205, or croberts@drbc.state.nj.us/
/Web site: http://www.drbc.net/
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TO ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
EDITORS:
Emex Corp. Registers
Low-sulfur Diesel With EPA Company eyes California
as
proving ground
LAKEWOOD, CO, Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- EMEX Corp. (Nasdaq: EMEX - news)
has
completed Environmental Protection Agency registration of its
low-sulfur diesel fuel, Blue Star S-2, synthesized via
proprietary
processes from natural gas.
/CONTACT: Weber Shandwick
Worldwide, Matt Gallagher, 646/658-8155/
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TO ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
EDITORS:
DMEA. s Marketing of
Fuel Cells, GeoExchange Systems and Other
Eco-Technologies Covered by Business Week
MONTROSE, CO, Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- (Montrose, CO) Delta-Montrose
Electric
Association (DMEA), an electric cooperative serving 28,000
customers in four counties in southwest Colorado, is
featured in the
March 5 edition of Business Week, one
of the nation. s most prestigious
and widely read
business periodicals.
/CONTACT: Tom Polikalas,
970-240-1245, tpolikalas@dmea.com/
/Web sites: http://www.dmea.com
http://www.coenergies.com/
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TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:
Orangutan Numbers Plummeting
Worldwide; Species May Vanish in Ten Years,
Study Says
NEW YORK, NY, Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- The orangutan . the only great
ape found in
Asia . may vanish from the wild within a decade, unless
illegal logging of its habitat and poaching can be greatly
reduced,
according to research funded by the Bronx
Zoo-based Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS).
/CONTACT: STEPHEN SAUTNER
(718-220-3682; ssautner@wcs.org), JOHN DELANEY
(718-220-3275; jdelaney@wcs.org)/
/Web site: http://www.wcs.org/
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TO ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
EDITORS:
Federal Power Agency
Issues Largest Wind Solicitation Ever Request for
1,000
MW of New Capacity Signals 'Breakthrough' for Wind in Pacific
Northwest, U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- The Bonneville Power
Administration's (BPA)
decision to solicit proposals Feb. 21 for 1,000
megawatts (MW) of new wind energy generating capacity is a
"major
breakthrough" for the increasingly-competitive
clean energy technology,
the Washingon, D.C.-based
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said
today.
/CONTACT: Tom Gray (802)
649-2112, Christine Real de Azua (202)
383-2508/
/Web site: http://www.awea.org/
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NEWS ADVISORY -- TO BUSINESS,
CITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:
Media Briefing on GEMI's New Publication: 'New Paths to
Business Value:
Strategic Sourcing-Environment, Health,
and Safety'
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- The Global Environmental
Management
Initiative (GEMI) will announce the availability of its
newest publication, New Paths to Business Value: Strategic
Sourcing-Environment, Health, and Safety on March 13th
at a media
briefing in Washington, D.C. This guidance
document has been designed to
address the business
value of managing Environment, Health and Safety
(EHS)
in Procurement.
/CONTACT: Amy Goldman,
202-296-7449, for The Global Environmental
Management
Initiative/
/Web site: http://www.gemi.org/
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TO EDUCATION AND BUSINESS
EDITORS:
Social Responsibility
and Business: A New Web-Based Training Course
Teaches
Managers How the "Business-Case" for Social Responsibility
Results in Gains Over Competitors
GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- The following press
release was issued
today by the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development:
Even the most hard-nose business skeptics can no longer
deny that
improvements in financial performance,
reductions in operating costs,
increases in sales and
customer loyalty, and attracting the best and
brightest
employees -- are all attributable to a robust corporate social
responsibility (CSR) program. Having made the "business
case" for why
companies should work more pro-actively
on social issues, the Foundation
for Business and
Sustainable Development, the educational arm of the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD),
has launched
an Internet course aimed at company
managers to share this collective
learning.
/CONTACT: Virtual Learning
Partners A/S, +47-67-81-52-30, for World
Business
Council for Sustainable Development/
/Web site: http://www.foundation.no/vus/
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WITH PHOTO -- TO AUTO,
ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS EDITORS:
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010226/LAM036)
2001 Honda Civic GX First to
Achieve Newest Emission Control Standards
TORRANCE, CA, Feb. 26
-/E-Wire/-- The natural gas-powered 2001
Honda Civic GX
has become the first vehicle ever certified as an
"Advanced Technology" near-zero emission vehicle and the
first to
achieve nationwide SULEV status, American
Honda Motor Co., Inc.,
announced today.
/CONTACT: Art Garner,
310-783-3163, or Andy Boyd, 313-964-5676, or
John
Watts, 212-355-9191, all of American Honda Motor Co., Inc./
/Web site: http://www.honda.com/
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from League of Conservation Voters February 26, 2001
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LCV's Weekly Congressional Update
Week of February 26th, 2001
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The League of Conservation Voters
(LCV) continues to monitor Congressional
activity and
hold Members accountable for their action on important
environmental issues. See the information below for a
concise look at what
happened in Congress last week and
what we anticipate for the coming week.
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SUMMARY
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National energy policy takes
center stage;
Bush will speak
to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night to outline
his economic plan - budget cuts for environmental
protections expected;
Auto
makers drop opposition to higher CAFE standards;
Green Scissors 2001 report released.
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ON THE FLOOR THIS WEEK
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**SENATE**
**After a number of delays,
Senator Murkowski (R-AK) introduced his energy
bill
this week. A draft of his legislation has already come under fire
from the environmental community primarily over a provision
to open up the
coastal plain of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas
drilling. However, there
are a number of harmful provisions in the draft
bill
that have not received as much attention in the media. For example,
Murkowski's bill would increase taxpayer subsidies to
promote the
development of "clean coal", weaken clean
air standards for power plants
and restrict the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) ability to issue
permits for dams and hydro-projects on our public lands. As
a result, the
BLM's capacity to ensure protections for
fish, wildlife and water quality
would be hampered.
Murkowski's energy proposal
focuses primarily on the production side of
the
equation and not on decreasing demand for energy or increasing the use
of renewables. The energy problems of the new millennium
cannot be solved
with 19th century solutions.
Last week, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) pledged to filibuster
any energy bill
that included drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge. To learn
more about the bill
and to read polling on the issue click www.lcv.org.
**HOUSE**
**The Environment and Energy Daily reports that
environmental programs
could face large cuts under
President Bush's first budget. Although
detailed agency
breakdowns will not be available until April, speculation
over which departments will get hit is growing. According
to press
reports, the Interior Department could see a
five to seven percent cut in
funding from last year.
Funding for national monuments and firefighting
preparedness may be likely targets. Endangered species
protection programs
are expected to receive major
reductions as well.
In the Department of Energy,
programs dealing with energy efficiency and
nuclear
waste cleanup could see as much as a $1 billion cut. Specifics on
the EPA and other programs are not available. However, the
nation's
primary environmental enforcement agency is
expected to receive some of
the largest budget
reductions.
President Bush will address a joint session
of Congress on Tuesday night
to outline his economic
program. To learn more click
http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily.htm (subscription
required)
**In response to the
growing outrage over proposals to drill in the Arctic
Refuge, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers are set to
introduce
legislation this week to designate the
wildlife refuge as a "wilderness"
area, which would ban
all drilling.
The press conference will be held by
Reps. Markey (D-MA) and Johnson
(R-CT) on Wednesday,
February 28th. The bill already has 107 Republican
and
Democratic co-sponsors:
Rep.
Edward Markey - lead sponsor
Rep. Nancy Johnson - lead
sponsor
> 1. Morella
> 2. Bonior
> 3. Shays
> 4. Woolsey
> 5. Leach
> 6. Wexler
> 7.
Frelinghuysen
> 8. Tierney
> 9. Bass
> 10. Hinchey
> 11. Smith, C.
> 12.
Maloney, C.
> 13. Saxton
> 14. Hastings, A.
> 15.
Napolitano
> 16. Roybal-Allard
> 17. Kilpatrick
> 18. Wu
> 19. Menendez
> 20.
Engel
> 21. Baldacci
>
22. Serrano
> 23. Delahunt
> 24. Berman
> 25. Kildee
> 26. Evans
> 27.
Sanders
> 28. Weiner
>
29. Inslee
> 30. Waxman
> 31. Barrett
> 32. Hoeffel
> 33. Lewis, J.
> 34.
Blumenauer
> 35. Rothman
> 36. McGovern
> 37. Nadler
> 38. Meek
> 39. Rivers
> 40. Boucher
> 41.
Blagojevich
> 42. Allen
> 43. Deutsch
> 44. Frank
> 45. Hall, T.
> 46.
Davis, J.
> 47. Olver
>
48. Kleczka
> 49. Capps
> 50. DeLauro
> 51.
Slaughter
> 52. Lee
>
53. Pallone
> 54. Kucinich
> 55. Luther
> 56. Brown, S.
> 57. DeFazio
> 58.
Hooley
> 59. Brady, R.
>
60. Neal
> 61. Bishop
>
62. Coyne
> 63. Conyers
> 64. Schakowsky
> 65.
Cardin
> 66. Moran
> 67.
McKinney
> 68. Costello
> 69. Stark
> 70. Lowey
> 71. Filner
> 72. McCarthy,
K.
> 73. Moore
> 74.
Payne
> 75. Maloney
>
76. Baird
> 77 McNulty
>
78. Udall, M.
> 79. Pastor
> 80. Price
> 81. Norton
> 82. Sabo
> 83. Levin
> 84. Lantos
> 85. Mink
> 86. Moakley
> 87. Matsui
> 88. Andrews
> 89.
Tauscher
> 90. Eshoo
>
91. Langevin
> 92. Pelosi
> 93. Obey
> 94. McDermott
> 95. Fattah
> 96.
Meehan
> 97. Holt
> 98.
Capuano
> 99. Farr
>
100. Kennedy
> 101 Carson, J.
> 102 Jones, S. Tubbs
> 103
DeGette
> 104 Scott
>
105 McCollum
> 106 Schiff
> 107 Pascrell
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IN COMMITTEE THIS WEEK
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**SENATE**
**The Finance Committee will hold
a hearing on globalization and the
impacts of U.S.
trade policy this Tuesday. International trade will be an
early challenge for the new administration with the
possible authorization
of fast track negotiating
authority and the growing demand for stronger
labor and
environmental standards in trade agreements.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), the ranking democrat on the Finance
Committee, has
come out in front of the debate, stating
that he will block the
administration from receiving
fast track authority so long as progress is
not made to
include labor and environmental provisions.
The hearing will take place on Tuesday at 10:00am.
**The Senate Environment and
Public Works committee will hold hearings on
Sen.
Chafee's brownfields legislation. The Brownfields Revitalization and
Environmental Restoration Act (S. 350) has received
bipartisan support in
committee and is considered to
have a good chance at passage this year.
One sticking
point, however, will be the role that the EPA will play in
brownfields redevelopment after the areas are considered
clean by state
agencies. Brownfields are contaminated
industrial sites that are not
sufficiently polluted to
qualify for cleanup funds under the federal
Superfund
program. Developers have been hesitant to invest in these sites
due to the threat of future lawsuits over low-level
contamination.
Chafee's bill would provide liability
exemptions, or "finality", by
placing some limits on
the EPA's enforcement actions.
The full committee hearing will take place on Wednesday,
Feb. 28th, at
9:30am. Witnesses will include the new
EPA administrator Christine Todd
Whitman.
**The
Senate Agriculture Committee will hold hearings on a new farm bill.
Farm bill provisions such as the Conservation Reserve
Program, which pays
farmers not to use environmentally
sensitive areas, have had a strong
positive impact on
environmental protection in farm states.
The hearings will take place on Wednesday, Feb 28th and
Thursday, March
1st at 9:00am.
**HOUSE**
**The Water Resources and
Environment Subcommittee will hold hearings on
the
EPA's controversial new total maximum daily load (TMDL) rule.
According to the Clean Water Network, "a TMDL (Total
Maximum Daily Load)
is the total amount of a pollutant
that a body of water can handle from
all sources. Once
the TMDL is calculated, it is used as a basis for
putting limits on the amount that pollutant that can be
discharged into
the river, lake or stream from all
sources, while still allowing that body
of water to
meet its designated water quality standard. For more
information click http://www.cwn.org .
The hearing will take place on Wednesday, Feb 28th at
10:00am. Witnesses
will include Governors John Hoeven
(R) of North Dakota and John Kitzhaber
(D) of Oregon.
**The Subcommittee on Energy
and Air Quality chaired by Rep. Joe Barton
(TX-06) will
hold a hearing entitled "National Energy Policy" on
Wednesday, February 28th at 1:00pm. The first day will
focus on natural
gas supply issues.
**The Budget Committee will hold
hearings on the President's FY2002 budget
proposal (see
above). Specific agency breakdowns are not expected until
April.
The hearings will take place on Thursday at 10:00am and
3:00pm.
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NEWS FLASH!!
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**An annual report documenting
wasteful government spending on
environmentally
destructive programs was released late last week.
"The
Green Scissors 2001 report, endorsed by more than 24 organizations,
highlights programs that taxpayer, environmental and
consumer
organizations agree should be cut. Green
Scissors 2001 targets ten 'Choice
Cuts' which are
particularly vulnerable to congressional actions as well
as nine new programs that hurt the environment and waste
taxpayer dollars.
The full list of recommended cuts
ranges from money losing timber sales to
coal industry
subsidies."
"Green Scissors"
is published jointly by Taxpayers for Common Sense, U.S.
PIRG and Friends of the Earth. To learn more or to read the
report click
www.greenscissors.org.
**Last week, the auto industry
dropped its long-time opposition to raising
the
corporate average fuel economy (CAFÉ) standards for new cars, trucks
and SUVs and announced its support for an alternative fuel
vehicle tax
credit. Raising the mileage per gallon for
new vehicles is viewed by
environmentalists and a
growing majority in Congress as one of the best
methods
for reducing foreign oil dependency while protecting the
environment and saving the consumer money at the pump.
For the past several years, this issue has been the subject
of an annual
appropriations battle over a rider that
placed a freeze on funding
research on or raising miles
per gallon standards for the corporate
average fuel
economy. To learn more click
http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/cleancars/
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from League of Conservation Voters February 26, 2001
WASHINGTON (February 26, 2001) - Today the League of
Conservation Voters
(LCV) declared U.S. Sen. Frank
Murkowski. s (R-Alaska) National Energy
Security Act of
2001 "dead on arrival" since it includes a provision to
open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil production
and fails to
seriously address domestic demand. Opening
the Arctic Refuge to the
environmentally devastating
impacts of oil drilling is opposed by a
growing,
bipartisan group of Senators, including Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.),
chairman of the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee,
and Sen. John
Kerry (D-Mass.), who has pledged to
filibuster any bill that includes an
Arctic drilling
provision. A recent bipartisan poll conducted by the
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund showed that
two-thirds (66
percent) of American voters support
permanently protecting the Arctic
Refuge from oil
drilling.
To read the full
release, visit http://lcv.org/news/022601.html
from Defenders of Wildlife February 27, 2001
DEN Alert:
Keep a National Forest
Safe from Off-Road Vehicle Impacts
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and an off-road vehicle
(ORV) working
group has released their ill conceived
plan for motorized access in
Florida's Ocala National
Forest. The plan fails to protect ecologically-
sensitive wildlife habitat from damage by ORVs. USFS has
made no
serious attempt to protect or address threats
ORVs pose to natural
resources and wildlife. Defenders
of Wildlife is concerned that
decisions are being made
and positions set among many of the off-
road vehicle
representatives and forest service staff without the
best scientific information or consideration of devastating
ecological
impacts of ORVs.
It's critical that the Forest
Service and ORV users take into
account the variety of
detrimental impacts ORVs have to the Ocala
National
Forest's landscape, plants and animals. Those impacts
include: wildlife disturbance and displacement and wildlife
habitat
and wetlands destruction. Defenders of Wildlife
needs strong public
support to prevent the opening of
access roads to ORVs that would
fragment, destroy and
disrupt sensitive wildlife habitat in
restricted areas
of the Ocala National Forest.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Send a free e-mail to the supervisor of Florida's national
forests
and tell her that the ORV access plan does not
go far enough to
protect wildlife and their habitat
from off-road vehicles.
Comments are due by
MARCH 20, so send your message today. Thanks
for doing
your part to protect our nation's forests!
INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:
If you have access to the web,
simply click on the link below which
will take you to
the DEN Action Center web site:
http://www.denaction.org
If you don't have access to the Internet, please e-mail
your letter
to: mkearny@fs.fed.us or mail it to: Marsha
Kearny, Forest Supervisor,
National Forests of Florida,
325 John Knox Road, Suite F-100,
Tallahassee, FL,
32303-9300.
SAMPLE LETTER:
Dear Ms. Kearney:
The access plan for restricted areas in the Ocala National
Forest
proposed by the Access Designation working group
is fundamentally
flawed in light of the absence of
sound scientific and ecological
information and should
be modified to protect natural resources and
sensitive
species.
The plan justifies a
network of intertwined, illegal ghost trails
and woods
roads created from years of lax Forest Service law
enforcement of restricted areas on the Ocala. The plan was
created
without data on the current level of ORV use in
comparison to other
recreational users and without the
current level of ORV use of
restricted areas. The
Forest Service has not analyzed what ORV
impacts will
result from the proposed plan. Off-road vehicle (ORV)
impacts were not studied before proposing to open
restricted areas
to ORV use.
I emphasize the following points:
* Do
not approve the access designation process plan because it
justifies a damaging network of illegal ghost trails and
woods roads
created from years of lax Forest Service
enforcement of restricted
areas on the Ocala forest.
* Protect restricted areas by
closing redundant routes to the
same destination,
dead-end roads and loops.
* Protect wetlands, red-cockaded
woodpecker clusters, wood stork
colonies and other
habitats with threatened and endangered species
by
closing woods roads in and around such areas.
* Reject the portion of designated
ORV trail and open numbered
woods road system in the
Paisley Woods in the Seminole District of
the Ocala,
that concentrate ORV use in the core of the most vibrant
red-cockaded woodpecker clusters, their recovery and
foraging areas.
* Do not establish an ORV staging
area in a USFWS designated
woodpecker recovery area.
The staging area combined with the "open"
woods road
system could cause harassment and displacement of red-
cockaded woodpeckers which is prohibited under the
Endangered
Species Act. The Forest Service must also
study red-cockaded
woodpeckers' displacement,
harassment and stresses by ORVs before
enhancing
access.
* Before enhancing access to
restricted areas, create an ORV
management and
education plan that will establish rules for ORV
users
and adequate law enforcement.
Thank you for your consideration of my thoughts regarding
this
issue.
Sincerely,
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recognized as one of the
nation's most progressive advocates for
wildlife and
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saving endangered species such as brown bears and gray
wolves, Defenders
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from Sierra Club February 27, 2001
SC-ACTION Vol. III, #21
DEFENDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA
February 23, 2001
Quote of the Day
We abuse land because we regard it
as a commodity belonging to us. When we
see land as a
community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with
love and respect.
-- Aldo Leopold,
The Quiet Crisis by Stewart L. Udall, 1963
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Table of Contents:
1. Featured Action: Help Free Mexican
Environmentalists
2. Take
Action: Protect America's Wild Forest Heritage
3. Take Action: Tell the EPA to
Regulate Global Warming Emissions as
Pollutants
4. Take Action: Say No to Oil and Gas
Development in Bridger-Teton
National Forest
5. Take Action: Fight for Responsible
Trade
6. Take Action: Urge Bush
to Reinstate Support for International Family
Planning
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1. Help Free Mexican Environmentalists
Earlier this month, Mexican
President Vicente Fox ordered the President's
lawyer to
review the case of Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera to, in the
President's words, "find out the truth." The
human rights of these
activists were violated when they
were arrested and tortured by soldiers of
the Mexican
army. We must hold President Fox to his promises to work
together with the defense lawyers to find a legal
resolution to this case
and to bring those responsible
to justice.
Ask the President
to direct his Attorney General to recommend that the
amparo (an appeal that is filed to challenge the
act of an authority that
violated an individual's
Constitutional guarantees) be granted. This
action by the Attorney General is likely to result in the
freedom of
Montiel and Cabrera because the defense and
the prosecution would both be
recommending that the
appeal on behalf of the two activists be granted.
Write to President Vicente Fox
c/o
Embassy of Mexico
1911 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006
For more information visit our website:
www.sierraclub.org/human-rights
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2. Take Action To Protect
America's Wild Forest Heritage
Write a letter to the editor of your Representative and
Senators. Below is
an example of how to
tailor your letter to include examples from your area
or
local forest. Send your letter
to your Member of Congress at the following
address:
The
Honorable Rep.____________
U.S.
House of Representatives
Washington,
D.C. 20515
The
Honorable Sen. ___________
U.S.
Senate
Washington,
D.C. 20510
Our
National Forests we established over one hundred years ago
for
all Americans to enjoy. These forests provided clean drinking
water
for communities, outstanding recreation for families, and
excellent
habitat for fish and wildlife. They have also given us
tremendous
scientific and educational benefits.
Unfortunately,for
the past 50 years, the
Forest
Service has spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing
the
logging of public lands and building roads for logging
companies.
Clearly
it is time to end the Forest Service commercial logging
program.
Please do all that you can to protect our National
Forests
from logging, for our families, for our future.
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3. Tell the EPA to Regulate Global Warming Emissions as
Pollutants
The EPA is
requesting comments on a petition to regulate the global warming
pollution that spews out the tailpipes of cars. The
petition, submitted by
a coalition of environmental
groups, requests that the agency use a
provision of the
Clean Air Act to regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide,
methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons from new
cars, light trucks
and other engines. The petition
asserts that greenhouse gases contribute to
global
warming and should be regulated as pollutants that can cause
significant damage to the environment and public health.
Public comments are due to EPA
by May 23, 2001.
Please e-mail
comments to: A-and-R-Docket@epa.gov
For more information, go to:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/2001/January/Day-23/a1979.htm
For a sample letter, go
to:
www.sierraclub.org/takeaction/globalwarming/index.asp#top
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4. Say No to Oil and Gas Development in Bridger-Teton
National Forest
The
Bridger-Teton National Forest, bordering Yellowstone National Park in
northwest Wyoming, is world famous for its blue ribbon
trout streams,
winding through lush valleys complete
with vast herds of elk. But the oil
and gas industry is
fighting to open up nearly 370,000 acres -- an area
larger than neighboring Grand Teton National Park -- to oil
and gas
development. Drill rigs, accompanied by a maze
of roads and power lines,
already fracture many of the
last best places in the Greater Yellowstone
area.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest
recently proposed to put this land off
limits to oil
and gas industrialization. The public overwhelmingly supports
this proposal, known as the "No Lease" alternative in the
draft
environmental impact statement for oil and gas
development. In fact, 98
percent of the more than 2,500
comments received supported the "No Lease"
alternative.
Big oil is working to reverse this proposal. Only through an
emphatic show of public support for the Forest Service
proposal will the
"No Lease" decision hold.
This decision will set a precedent
for the future management of our
national forests: Will
our public lands be managed mainly for
industrial-scale
resource extraction and production? Or are some places
simply too important because of their wildlife, clean water
and recreation
opportunities?
Tell the Forest Service to
continue its efforts to protect the
Bridger-Teton
National Forest. Say you support the "No Lease" alternative.
For a sample letter, see:
www.sierraclub.org/takeaction/wildlands/
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5. Fight for Responsible Trade The North American Free
Trade Agreement was
supposed to relax trade
restrictions between Canada, Mexico and the United
States. But some of those alleged trade restrictions are
hard-won
environmental laws.
But NAFTA contains dangerous
provisions (similar to those in Newt
Gingrich's
Contract with America) that allow corporations to sue
governments if environmental laws get in the way of
profits. Already, a
Canadian chemical company has used
these NAFTA provisions to sue the United
States for $1
billion because California banned a carcinogenic gasoline
additive that is poisoning the state's drinking water.
The Bush administration now wants
to expand these dangerous provisions
though a new trade
pact, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
agreement, covering the entire Western Hemisphere.
The FTAA has been negotiated in
total secrecy. Please write to your
senators and
representatives and urge the Bush administration to "release
the text" of the FTAA so the public can understand its
terms.
Write your senators at:
U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20515.
Write your
representative at: U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC
20510.
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6. Urge Bush to Reinstate Support for International
Family Planning Only
two days after his inaugural
address, President Bush dealt a blow to
international
family planning programs by reinstating the global gag rule.
The global gag rule bars international family planning
organizations that
receive a single dollar of U.S.
funds from using their own money to talk
about abortion
with their patients, provide abortion services, or lobby to
change abortion laws in their countries.
Tell President Bush you disagree
and ask him to support these programs in
the future.
For more information, go to Global Population and the
Environment:
www.sierraclub/takeaction/
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Sierra Club Legislative Hotline - 202-675-2394
Sierra Club National Headquarters - 415-977-5500
Sierra Club World Wide Web - http://www.sierraclub.org
Sierra Club Vote Watch Website - http://www.sierraclub.org/votewatch/
White House Comment Line - 202-456-1111
White House Fax Line - 202-456-2461
George W. Bush's e-mail -
president@whitehouse.gov
Dick
Cheney's e-mail - vice-president@whitehouse.gov
White House Address - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC
20500
US Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121
To contact your senators - http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm
To contact your representative - http://www.house.gov/writerep
from Environment News Service February 27, 2001
ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE
(ENS) http://ens-news.com
"We
Cover the Earth For You"
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SUPREME COURT CLEARS EPA TO
REGULATE CLEANER AIR
By Cat
Lazaroff
WASHINGTON, DC,
February 27, 2001 (ENS) - In a major defeat for
polluting industries, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
unanimously today
that the federal government need not
consider the financial costs of
meeting clean air
standards when creating new regulations. The court
rejected industry arguments that the health benefits of
cleaner air must
be balanced against the costs of
compliance.
For full text and
graphics, visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-27-07.html
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UK PROVIDES RAY OF HOPE FOR
BASKING SHARK
LONDON, United
Kingdom, February 27, 2001 (ENS) - The UK wants the
world's second largest marine fish, the basking shark,
protected from
international trade. Despite protection
in UK waters, numbers of the
basking shark (Cetorhinus
maximus) are falling rapidly around the
British Isles
and elsewhere.
For full text
and graphics visit:
http://ens-news.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-27-10.html
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ENERGY BILL WOULD OPEN ARCTIC
REFUGE TO DRILLING
WASHINGTON,
DC, February 27, 2001 (ENS) - Senators Frank Murkowski and
John Breaux introduced new energy legislation Monday that
would open the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to
drilling and place increased emphasis
on developing
other domestic energy sources. Environmental groups
lambasted the bill, warning it would threaten sensitive
lands around the
nation.
For full text and graphics visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-27-06.html
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SAND MUDDIES LEGAL WATERS IN
GERMAN WETLAND FIGHT
By
Neville Judd
HAMBURG, Germany,
February 27, 2001 (ENS) - Environmentalists and
orchard
growers have lost an important court decision in the battle to
prevent Airbus Industrie from filling in part of
Mühlenberger Loch, the
largest freshwater tidal
ecosystem in Europe.
For full
text and graphics, visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-27-11.html
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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: FEBRUARY 27, 2001
National Plan Aims to Protect
Sharks
Court Agrees: Glacier
Bay Traffic Requires Study
Grazing Fees Held at Minimum Rate
Salmon Lose: Utility Needs Scarce
Water
Bixby Ocean Ranch Nears
Permanent Protection
Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Not Considered Threatened
Groups Call Daimler's Unimog a
"DaimlerSaurus"
Research Helps
Reduce Pollution, Urban Sprawl
For full text and graphics, visit:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-27-09.html
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TO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
EDITORS:
Xechem Announces
Issuance of a New Australian Patent for Second
Generation Paclitaxel Analogs
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- Xechem International, Inc.
(OTC BB: ZKEM)
today announced that the Commissioner of Patents,
Commonwealth of Australia Patent Office, granted a second
Australian
Patent, Patent No. 724929, on January 25th,
2001 to Xechem for its
paclitaxel analogs, preparation
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EDITORS:
Ives Health Online
Generates Revenue and Increases Capacity
Company Now
Offering Complete Line Of `All-Natural' Remedies
CLAREMORE, OK, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- Ives Health Company (OTCBB: IVEH
- news)
announced today that the Company has completed Stage Two of
their E-Commerce plans. The new `Naturalpath' information
center at
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remedies with education
for consumers in a format that
should allow millions of people relief
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ailments with virtually no side effects.
/CONTACT: For Ives Health:
Strategic Communications, Investor
Relations,
775/828-6576/
/Web site: http://www.iveshealth.com/
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EDITORS:
Millennium Plastics
Announces Multi-Year Sales Agreement With Santrol To
Provide Solplax(TM) Perforation Ball Sealers To The Oil And
Gas Industry
LAS VEGAS, NV, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- Millennium Plastics Corporation
(OTCBB:
MPCO) announced today the signing of a multi-year sales
agreement with Santrol Corporation of Fresno, Texas.
Santrol will market
and sell water-soluble and
biodegradable Solplax(TM) plastic perforation
ball
sealers to the oil and gas industry under their trade name
BioBalls(TM). Santrol manufactures, markets and sells resin
coated
proppants, BioBall(TM) perforation ball sealers
and other petroleum
oriented products.
/CONTACT: Investor
Communications Co., 800/550-5165 or
800/419-0611/
/Web site: http://www.millenniumpolymers.com
http://www.solplax.com/
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EDITORS:
Itronics' GOLD'n GRO
Fertilizers Featured in Major Agricultural
Newsletter
RENO, NEV, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- Itronics Inc. (OTCBB:ITRO), a world
leader
in photochemical recycling, is featured in the current ``Western
Connection,'' the quarterly newsletter of Western Farm
Service (WFS),
which circulates to approximately 17,000
customers. WFS is one of the
largest fertilizer
distributors in the West and offers Itronics' GOLD'n
GRO product line.
/CONTACT: Itronics Inc.,Paul
Knopick, 888/795-6336/
/Web
site: http://www.Itronics.com/
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EDITORS:
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To Buy SP34E in U.S
PHOENIX, AZ, Feb. 27
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1.800.YOUR.AIR.
/CONTACT: Solpower
Corporation, Mark Robinson/James Hirst,
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toll free, 888/289-8866/
/Web
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Eurotech
Co-Sponsors 'Viktory for Kids' a CBS Broadcasting Affiliate
Event For 'The Children of Chernobyl Relief Fund'
FAIRFAX, VA, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- EUROTECH, Ltd, (Amex: EUO) will be
a
co-sponsor of the ``Viktory for Kids'' event to benefit the ``Children
of Chernobyl Relief Fund.''
World Olympic champion figure skater, Viktor Petrenko, will
star with
special guest Brian Boitano and an impressive
array of other ice-skating
performers at the
International Skating Center of Connecticut in
Simsbury, CT. Other event supporters include The Hartford
Courant and
WSFB, Channel 3.
/CONTACT: Investor Relations,
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Fund for
Animals Calls on Pennsylvania to End Bobcat Hunting and
Trapping
HARRISBURG, PA, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- Pennsylvania's first sport
hunting and
trapping season on bobcats in 30 years came to a close
Saturday. The Fund for Animals is asking Pennsylvania
officials to stop
this cruel and biologically reckless
experiment from occurring again
next year. The
Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) estimates that nearly
60 bobcats were killed this season, most of them in
steel-jawed leghold
traps. The PGC is already
predicting that more than 800 permits will be
issued
next season.
/CONTACT: Heidi Prescott,
301-585-2591, ext. 213, or Diana Norris,
301-585-2591,
ext. 207, both of The Fund for Animals/
/Web site: http://www.fund.org/
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Education Needs Environmental Leadership
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 27
-/E-Wire/-- The country's colleges and
universities
were reminded today that they are responsible to comply
with federal and state environmental laws, just like their
counterparts
in business, industry, military and
government.
/CONTACT: Ruth Wuenschel of
United States Environmental Protection
Agency Region
III, 215-814-5540/
/Web site:
http://www.epa.gov/region03/
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EDITORS:
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TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:
Environ.com and National Safety
Council to Provide A Wealth of
Information on Indoor
Air Quality
TEMPE AND WASHINGTON, AZ, DC,
Feb. 27 -/E-Wire/-- The National
Safety Council (NSC)
and Environmental Support Solutions (Environ.com),
a
leading Internet environmental compliance portal, announced today that
they are linking up to provide comprehensive information on
Indoor Air
Quality through their websites.
/CONTACT: Robin Suzelis of
Environ.com, 480-346-5524,
robin_suzelis@environ.com;
or Joe Larkin of National Safety Council,
630-775-2303,
larkinj@nsc.org/
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from Sierra Club February 27, 2001
SC-ACTION Vol. III, # 22
DEFENDING
THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA
February 26, 2001
Quote
of the Day
"Senator
Murkowski's bill is a give-away for fossil fuel producers.
All it leaves for renewable and clean energy are table
scraps."
--Ann Mesnikoff, Sierra Club Washington
Representative
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Table of Contents:
1. FEATURED ITEM:Urge your Senator to Oppose the Murkowski
Energy Bill
2. Tell the EPA to
Regulate Global Warming Emissions as Pollutants
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1. FEATURED ITEM: Urge your
Senator to Oppose the Murkowski Energy Bill
The Sierra Club is calling on Congress to reject the energy
bill Sen. Frank
Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced today.
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from Global Response February 28, 2001
Dear Members of Global Response's "Quick Response Network:"
In our 10-year history, Global
Response has issued more Action alerts
against Shell
Oil Company than any other multinational corporation. In the
past year alone, two out of six of our hardcopy Action
alerts targeted
Shell for its illegal oil explorations
in the protected mangrove forests of
Bangladesh and in
Kirthar National Park in Pakistan. Protests against
Shell are ongoing in dozens of countries worldwide.
How is it possible that Shell is
being honored with an Environmental Award?
Please send a letter of protest to the World Environment
Center for
honoring Shell with its 2001 Gold Medal for
International Corporate
Environmental
Achievement. Thanks to the World Rainforest Movement for
circulating the following Action Alert:
WRM
ACTION alerts
FEBRUARY
2001
Letters of protest against WEC's award to Shell
Oil companies are worldwide
known for the negative environmental
impact they
produce both at the local and the global levels. While in the places where
oil
prospection and exploitation is performed,
environmental destruction and social
disruption is the
rule, at the global level the burning of fossil fuels is one of the main
causes
of global warming.
To face increasing
criticisms, Shell recently launched a campaign
--"Profits and Principles. Is there a choice?"-- in
influential Northern press media,
trying to portray
itself as environmentally sound and a defender of human rights.
The
campaign seems to have born fruit: Shell will receive next March
the 2001 Gold Medal for International Corporate
Environmental Achievement awarded by
the
World Environment Center (WEC).
We have received the following from
the Ogoni people:
"This would be laughable if
it were not so sad and painful, bearing in
mind Shell's
well publicised poor record on environmental responsibility in Ogoniland
and the Niger Delta of Nigeria. The world is not
in doubt about Shell's terrible
activities in
Ogoniland, which resulted to its complicity in the hanging of
environmental, and human
rights activist, Ken Saro
Wiwa and the eight other Ogoni activists. Shell's exploration
activities in Ogoniland caused the devastation of the
environment, pollution of the rivers &
streams as
well as destruction of farmlands depriving the people of their source of
livelihood. The continuing suffering of the people
from the
indignity of
living with broken pipelines, daily inhalation of
poisonous gas flares, incessant oil spills / fires and
dealing with the prospect of owning a wasteland
cannot
be ignored or forgotten.
"Shell is guilty of abuse of
the Ogoni people and their environment
and this has
been confirmed by the United Nations' fact-finding mission to Ogoniland,
which among others recommended that Shell
institute an environmental audit of the land.
Shell was
asked to clean up Ogoni environment, re-route and bury its surface
pipelines,
pay compensation to the people and
respect their human rights and as well as ensure that
any further oil exploration activities is based on
agreement with the people. There
has been no
honest response from Shell on these matters. Instead it continues to ignore
these recommendations and tries to force its way
back into the community,
through corrupt means
thereby causing further conflict amongst the people.
"Sadly, World Environment
Center (WEC) an organisation founded by the
United
Nations is rewarding Shell for the environmental and human rights disasters
it
continues to create in Ogoniland and the Niger
Delta. We feel the organisation has either
been misled
or are in collusion with Shell and other corporate interest to "greenwash"
the
image of Shell with this award. We are asking
WEC to automatically disqualify Shell from
this award
until such a time when Shell accepts full responsibility for the mess it
has
created in Ogoniland and the Niger Delta.
"Please stand up against
forces of imperialism such as Shell who prey
on the
people, dehumanise them, break their dignity, destroy their sources of
livelihood and then flaunt their conquest with
undeserved awards and obscene profits.
"Stand up for the oppressed
people of the world whose lives are daily
traumatised
by these gang of irresponsible multinational companies which pride
themselves
on corporate greed, corporate deception
and corporate thuggery.
"Protest this double
injustice against the Ogoni people. Protest this
shameless act by Shell and its cohorts. Petition the
blood of Ken Saro Wiwa and that of every
Ogoni child,
who have been denied normal childhood and a healthy environment by Shell.
Please give the voiceless a voice, and support the
Ogoni people by adding your name to
the petition.
"The
signatures will be forwarded to WEC, United Nations offices and
Shell offices across the World as soon as possible.
We thank you for your
untiring support for the rights and survival of
the
Ogoni people. The
Struggle continues,
Mrs Gbenewa Phido
MOSOP-UK President
web site: www.mosopcanada.org
"
Here's a model letter
for organizations or individuals to send:
John .F. Mizrock
President
/CEO
World
Environment Center (WEC)
49 Park Avenue
South
Suite
1800
New York
NY 10016, USA
Dear Mr Mizrock,
On 10th January 2001, your
organisation (WEC) ignored Shell's
disgraceful environmental record and gave them an
award for environmental quality.
We, the undersigned
organisations and individuals from around the
world, wish to express our total disappointment and
shock at your choice of
company - Shell whose
environmental track record in Ogoniland and the
Niger
Delta of Nigeria is below average to say the least. We share the concerns
of
the Ogoni people who have called for
the immediate disqualification of Shell from this
award. This is because an environmental award to Shell
undermines the struggles and
demands for a healthy
environment by the Ogonis as well as exonerates and endorses
the company's atrocities in the community since 1958.
We understand that WEC is an
independent organisation which has been
funded by
the United Nations Environment programme to advance sustainable
development and social responsibility, encouraging
environmental leadership
and help improve
environmental health and safety practice world-wide.
Going by this criteria,
giving this award to Shell confirms your
organisation's refusal to abide by its stated terms of
reference thereby encouraging
the destruction of
the natural environment of the Ogonis and Niger Delta
people whose land is
continuously being savaged by Shell in Nigeria.
Shell's activities in Ogoni
led to the community's crisis of 1993 -
1996, which
resulted to the killing of over 3,000 people including women and children.
Other
human rights violations that ensued included
raping of thousands of teenage girls,
young women
and grandmothers, the sacking of 30 Ogoni villages and the maiming of
youths etc. These human rights violations was climaxed
with the hanging of human &
environmental
rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 other Ogonis on November 10, 1995 which
caused international outrage on Nigeria and mass
boycott of Shell's product
across the world.
The human and material cost
of this crisis on the Ogoni people cannot
be quantified
in monetary terms. Yet Shell's reckless oil exploration activities remain
unchanged in the Niger Delta. Shell's poisonous
gas flares still pollute Ogoniland 24
hours daily since
1958, causing terminal lung and chest illnesses; surface pipelines still
criss-cross the lands, causing explosions from
overheating; oil spills and fires continue to
destroy
lands, streams and rivers. Shell still refuses to implement proper cleanup
activities on the land or offer compensatio to the
landowners etc.
See below Shell's most recent
disasters in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.
RECENT HISTORY ON SHELL'S
ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS IN NIGER DELTA:
1. "Pipeline
explosion rocks Delta Community. This pipeline
belonging to SPDC exploded in Warri. Spilling about a
million barrells of oil in
the area" - Daily Times
of Nigeria 9th January 2001
2. "Shell's oil
spill claims 28 lives including women & children in
Akassa Local Government. More than 200 villages were
affected - Post
Express 5th, January 2001
3. "Fire guts
Shell's 'well 18' in Ugheli Nigeria." - Nigerian
Guardian 13th December
2000.
4. "Ikarama oil
spill spreads to Ahoada, the spill has polluted the
people's source of drinking
water" - Nigerian Observer 5th November
2000
5. "Shell's oil
spill occurs at well 32 (Ekulama) covering river and
destroying aquatic lives.
Ekulama women protest against
Shell over shooting of youths" -
Environmental Rights
Action Nigeria. 10th
August 2000
6. "Unending
crude oil pollution. Shell immerses Biseni community in
Crude oil and refuses to clean spill" - Environmental
Rights Action
Nigeria 15th July 2000
7. "Shell, blood
stains from Evwreni" - Environmental Rights Action
Nigeria 22nd February 2000
8. "Shell
instigated attacks on Elelewon" - Evironmental Rights
Action Nigeria 31st January 2000
9. "Shell spill
in Eregbesene" - Environmental Rights Action Nigeria
27th January 2000
10. "43 years on,
Oloibiri is a study in neglect - the road to
Oloibiri,
the first oil well at Oloibiri, view of the No. 2 location of Shell at
Oloibiri in 1956" -
Nigerian Guardian
25th December 1999.
11. "6 Years
after abandonement, Shell facilities spew oil in Bodo"
- ERA 27th December 1999
12. "Shell in
Bille; unending spills and crisis" - ERA 24th November
1999
13. "Shell fails
to clean spills, refuses to pay compensation in
Amuse
Oyigbo" - ERA 22nd Nov. 1999
14. "Shell's well
in Ogoni area goes aflame. A dormant oil well
belonging
to Shell burst into flames in Yorla oil field" - Nigerian Guardian 27th
July 1999
15.
By 1993, Ogoni could point to 3,000 oil spills from
high-pressured oil lines laid over their farmlands.
16. Shell has
been summoned to the Human Rights Commission sitting
in
Port Harcourt - Nigeria on 16th January 2001. This is in relation to the
corroboratory role it played with the Nigerian
dictator by sponsoring the Nigerian army with amunitions
and financial assistance, which was used to kill,
unarmed Ogonis in order to deter
them from
protesting against its activities. Shell is also expected to answer to its
role
in the hanging of Environmental /Human Rights
Activist Ken Saro Wiwa and the 8 other
Ogonis hanged
by the draconian regime of Sani Abacha. - Comet News 16th January 2001
17. "Shell fights
compensation order of $40m" - British Broadcasting
Corporation News 26th June 2000. Shell still refuses
to pay oil spill compensation
court order to the
Ebubu Ejaama people of Ogoni for 1970 spill, which devastated the area.
Judging from above, it is
obvious that Shell's presence in the Niger
Delta of
Nigeria does not reflect the environmentally friendly organisation that it
portrays
to the International community. The true
story of Shell in Nigeria is that of an
organisation
that ignores social responsibility, sustainable development, and
exhibits great disdain
for environmental health
and safety.
Finally, the award you
contemplate suggest that you are rewarding
Shell for
its cruel disregard for the environmental and human rights of the
Ogoni people
in particular and the people of the
Niger Delta in general. This contemptuous award
defies
the memory of Ken Saro Wiwa and thousands of Ogonis who have laid
down their lives
in protest of Shell's corporate
cruelty and irresponsibility.
We are by this petition
demanding that you immediately disqualify
Shell from
this award until it changes it attitude towards the environmental and human
rights disasters in Ogoni and the Niger Delta.
Yours truly,
Signed by:
(Organisations and
Individuals around the World)
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WASHINGTON, DC, February 28,
2001 (ENS) - Americans would enjoy a $1.6
trillion tax cut under President
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detailed in a speech to Congress last
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GM Sues California Over ZEV Mandate
Arsenic: A New Type of Endocrine Disrupter?
Fungicide Pollution
Costs DuPont Millions
Africa's Lake Chad Shrunken by Irrigation, Climate
Change
Five More Companies Pledge Action Against Climate Change
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American Chemistry
Council Statement On Supreme Court Decision on Clean
Air Law
ARLINGTON, VA, Feb. 28 -/E-Wire/-- The
following statement was
issued February 28, 2001, by David Zoll, vice
president and general
counsel of the American Chemistry Council, on the U.S.
Supreme Court’s
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standards for
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MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 28 -/E-Wire/--
Siemens Solar GmbH and Shell
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businesses.
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Newly Discovered Primate in Grave
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NAPLES, FL, Feb. 28 -/E-Wire/-- The
discovery of a new lemur
species by Duke University Primate Center was
announced at Caribbean
Gardens: The ZOO in Naples, Florida. Also announced
was evidence
uncovered by BRZ International Limited regarding organized
crime’s
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most
endangered group of primates on planet earth,” stated Tim Tetzlaff,
director of education for the 52-acre Caribbean Gardens
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Audubon of Florida Invites Birders to
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Birdathon 2001, Saturdays,
March 24th & 31st. Not only will you be
participating in guided tours of
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Allstate Life Insurance
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NORTHBROOK, IL, Feb. 28 -/E-Wire/--
Allstate Life Insurance
Company, a member of Allstate Financial Group, has
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