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"ECODEFENSE!inform" environmental inform-bulletin * number 26 *
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.............................................* SEPTEMBER 1994 *
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"ECODEFENSE!"
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Moskovsky prospekt 120-34
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236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg
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Russia
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telephone +7 0112 437286
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E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org
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CONTENT
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NEWS
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Official
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ESTONIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPEAK...
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Meetings
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MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS
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Russians leave grim ecological legacy BERLIN, Aug. 26 (UPI)
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When Russian troops quit Germany for good at the end of this
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month, they will leave behind a grim ecologicial legacy,
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officials warned Friday.
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SWEDISH SCIENTISTS INJECT FISH GENES INTO TREES STOCKHOLM,
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Aug 26 (Reuter) - Genetic researchers in Northern Sweden are
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injecting trees with Arctic fish genes to see if they become
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more resistant to cold.
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08/26 Estonia-Uranium By MICHAEL TARM TALLINN, Estonia (AP)
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-- Estonian authorities have seized nearly seven pounds of
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industrial-grade uranium smuggled from Russia, and said today
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that a wide network of people is likely involved.
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BBC Summary of World Broadcasts August 27, 1994 nuclear
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smuggling; Nuclear fuel seized in Munich is not made in
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Russia, according to expert (a) ITAR-TASS news agency (World
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Service), Moscow, in Russian 1109 gmt 25 Aug 94 (See SU/2080
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B/4
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WP 08/28 POLITICS OF PLUTONIUM; Officials Say Contraband Not
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a Threat By Rick Atkinson Washington Post Foreign Service
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BERLIN - Two weeks after the seizure by German police of a
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large quantity of contraband plutonium,
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GERMAN OPPOSITION TEAM FOR POLLS A MIXED BAG By Marcus Kabel
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BONN, Aug 29 (Reuter) German opposition leader Rudolf
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Scharping presented a 15-strong shadow cabinet on Monday for
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October elections, challenging Chancellor Helmut Kohl with a
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mixed bag
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Polish News Bulletin September 1, 1994 Emissions Down but
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Pollution Stays High BYLINE: By Leszek Michno SOURCE: Gazeta
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Wyborcza No. 203 Due to the recession in the Polish economy,
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the emissions of pollutants are 30% lower than several years
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ago
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Moscow offers to take plutonium, German paper says BONN, Sept
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1 (Reuter) Russia has offered to take smuggled plutonium
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seized in Germany last month and dispose of it, a German
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newspaper said on Thursday. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily
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quoted Chancellor Helmut
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NEWS FROM THE ESTONIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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Clean-up of Damage to the Estonian Environment by 50 Years of
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Soviet-Russian Military Occupation Will Cost Over 4 Billion
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USD.
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The Estonian Ministry of the Environment this week distributed
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a summary report of the amount of damage caused to the
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environment by 50 years of Soviet-Russian military occupation.
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The 13-member Government Working Group places the cost of
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repairing the damage to the Estonian environment at
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54,752,697,000 EEK (over 4 billion US dollars). In addition,
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loss of income to Estonia and non-payment of environmental
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taxes adds up to another 4.4 billion EEK, for a grand total of
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58.95 billion EEK.
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The highest costs are connected to the clean-up of former
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Soviet military airfields and artillery ranges (over 11
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billion EEK) and two areas involving radioactivity, the
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Paldiski nuclear submarine training facility (40 billion EEK)
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and the town of Sillamaee, with accumulated radioactive waste
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from a uranium plant (1.7 billion EEK).
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The Soviet military controlled 83650.87 hectares (nearly 2% of
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Estonian territory) on which were located 570 military
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installations of various types and sizes. Two hundred twelve
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of these, with a total surface area of 878.17 hectares, were
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located in the capital city of Tallinn.
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The Working Group has analyzed about 85% of the territory
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which was in the hands of the Soviet military. The areas
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suffering damage and the various military installations were
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divided into groups according to use and type. The damage to
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surface and ground water, soil, and the man-made environment
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was studied and assessed. Not included were navigation devices
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or an evaluation of the damage caused to Estonian forests. To
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date, the Working Group study has cost 9.8 million EEK.
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CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, SEMINARS
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5-8 September
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Save the Baltic Sea - conference held within the UNESCO
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Baltic Sea Project for schools around the Baltic. Karlskrona,
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Sweden.
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21-22 September
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Second Meeting of the HELCOM PITF Working Group on Public
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Awareness and Environmental Education, Riga, Latvia.
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27-30 September
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Twentieth Meeting of the HELCOM Maritime Committee, Tallinn,
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Estonia.
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10-14 October
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Fifth Meeting of the HELCOM Environment Committee, Nykoping,
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Sweden.
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17-20 October
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Third Meeting of the HELCOM PITF Working Group on Coastal
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Lagoons and Wetlands, Gdansk, Poland.
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25-28 October
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Environmental Protection'94. Third international exhibition
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and conference on environmental protection, Tallinn, Estonia.
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31 October - 4 November
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Fifth Meeting of the HELCOM Technological Committee, Denmark.
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7-11 November
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Eighteenth Meeting of the HELCOM Combatting Committee.
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23-24 November
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Fifth Meeting of the programme Implementation task force
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(HELCOME PITF 5), Tallinn, Estonia.
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28 November - 1 December
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Conference on Baltic Seal. Arranged by WWF International
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Baltic Programme in co-operation with the Swedish Museum of
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Natural History, Nykoping, Sweden.
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8-10 March 1995
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ECO-BALTIC: 1995 International Industry Conference for
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Sustainable Development. Arranged by International Network for
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Environmental Management (INEM), Lubeck, Germany.
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14-17 March
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16th meeting of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection
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Commission (HELCOM 16), Helsinki, Finland.
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ECODEFENSE!inform bulletins get more than 150 env.NGOs of EARTH
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Editorial Board thanks for financial help from "Sowing the
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Seeds of Democracy: A project for Environmental Grant-Making
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in tha NIS" program, which realize by ISAR.
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The reprint are welcome (with the reference, if possible).
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Editorial Board: Alexandra Koroleva, Vladimir Sliviak
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