Environment

Metalclad NAFTA Chapter 11 Decision Out

Note: A dangerous polluter, Metalcad, has been successful in an NAFTA Arbitration over its bankruptcy. Metalclad's battery smelting plant along the Rio Grande served as the poster child of sick industries using low wage workers to handle dangerous material and spew tons of toxic materials into the atmosphere.)

Environmentalists Cool to Trade Policy

The Washington Post / Reuters Environmental activists said yesterday a White House plan for making environmental protection a priority in future trade agreements was a step in the right direction but did not go far enough.

Global Labour Standards Pledge

By Edward Alden in Washington With the prospects for future trade negotiations still clouded by the Seattle protests, governments and multinational businesses are launching a series of initiatives to try to counter the charge that trade liberalisation has threatened environmental and labour standards.

Mississippi River Project Benefits Unlikely to Trickle Down to Farmers

By Richard A. Levins / Monday, July 17, 2000 / Minneapolis Star Tribune Here's a new twist in farm policy: Give billions to giant grain companies so they can pass it along to farmers. As odd as this sounds, a proposal for larger locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River System is being heralded as a way to help struggling farmers.

International Conference Against Neo-Liberalism

Green Left Weekly, Issue #411 GENEVA -- Nearly 600 people from all over the world attended three days of intense discussion and exchange of experiences here, June 22-24. The common focus of the participants, who represented some 190 organisations in 62 countries, was the fight against neo-liberalism and in defence of the victims of globalisation.

US Cites Environmental Trade Rules

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, WASHINGTON (AP)

Indigenous Peoples Critical of The Human Genome Project

Nixon, NV, 4:00 pm PST. Scientists representing the publicly funded Human Genome Project, and the private venture, Celera Corporation, announced today they have completed a rough map of the human genome. The human genome consists of two sets of 23 chromosomes, with each set containing a total of 3 billion chemical units.

OECD Ministers ""Determined"" to Launch New Trade Round

Agence France Presse / Sue Kendall PARIS, June 27 (AFP) - Ministers of 29 major industrial countries said here Tuesday they are "determined" to work for the launch "as soon as possible" of a new round of global trade talks that fully include the world's poorest nations.

Italian and French Ministers demand "Environmental WTO"

ENDS Daily - 19/06/00