EarthWINS Daily February 1998
EarthWINS Daily
#3.84
2/2/98
Contents
1. UN Investigates
US for Indigenous Human Rights Violations
2. SPAIN:
Miner's Strikes in Asturies
3. Info Request
re non-ferrous metal recycling
4. Davos reports/
February 1
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.85
2/2/98
1. MAI: Growing
Resistance Against Corporate Rule Treaty
2. US State
Department annual HR report
3. Alert,
stop S.270. Tex. compact
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.86
2/3/98
Contents
1. EMERGENCY
ACTION ALERT for SB 3, Wisconsin's sulfide Mining Moratorium
2. INDONESIA:
Dayaks claim home of Rio Tinto board member
3. AUSTRALIA:
AIRC backs Rio Tinto
4. AUSTRALIA:
NT TLC condemns Labor leader over Jabiluka
5. Prince
Edward Island vs MAI: the revolution
6. Year of
the Ocean, 1998
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.87
2/3/98
Contents
1. AUSTRALIA:
Twenty uranium mines threaten WA
2. Indigenous
people and Uranium mining
3. New Principle
To Protect Human Health
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.88
2/4/98
1. THANK YOU!
WI Senate Passes Mining Moratorium
a.
Wisconsin Senate mining victory
b.
One Million Dollars Not Enough to Buy the State Senate--
Conservationists
Applaud Strengthening of the Mining Moratorium
c.
Senators vote to fix Mining Moratorium Bill
d.
Wisconsin Senate strengthens Moratorium bill
e.
Re: EMERGENCY ACTION on Mining Moratorium
2. RACHEL
#582: One Fundamental Problem
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.89
2/4/98
1. WISCONSIN:
Assembly Votes for Mining Moratorium - Call Wisconsin's Governor!
a.
STRENGTHENED MINING MORATORIUM PASSES INTACT--
CALL THE
GOVERNOR NOW!!!!
b.
Moratorium Candlelight Vigil, Governor's Mansion, Thursday 5:30 pm
c.
Letter from Governor John Engler to Governor Tommy Thompson re
proposed
diversion of Great Lakes water
d.
Michigan to Governor Thompson: Don't Steal Great Lakes Water --
e.
Madison: Thursday mining conference
f.
STOP CRANDON!
2. Multilateral
Agreement on Investment (MAI) Sacrifices Environmental,
and Human
Rights for Profits.
3. Labor Alerts
4. GREENLines
Issue #556
5. NBL 7.2:
A Simple Business Model. A Profound Business Challenge
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.90
2/6/98
1. Rio Tinto
Attempting to De-Unionise its Operations
a.
Global Labor Campaign On Rio Tinto
b.
Mandela To Meet Unions Over Rio Tinto
2. MAI: Globalisation
Gone Mad
3. CANADA:
BC Human Rights Report Raises Gustafsen Inquiry
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.91
2/5/98
1. IMMEDIATE
ACTION NEEDED! Call Wisconsin's Governor NOW!
2. PAPUA NEW
GUINEA: With Truce, Rebellion Inches toward Peace
3. Urgent
Action: Pls fax/email Brazil's President Carduso Now
4. The MAI
and municipalities
5. Excerpts,
SC-ACTION
a.
Energy Research: Congress Takes AIM
b.
TRADE: Takings Goes Global With A Big Business "Bill of Rights"
6. Union Search
Engine
7. ENVIROVISION
Network Launched
8. Action
Alert - Immediately! Threat to the Great Lakes!
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.92
2/6/98
1. New Mining
Legislation South Africa
2. Canada's
Corporate Conquistadores Abroad
3. Environmentalist's
Guide to the Public Library
4. Brazil
Allows Indigenous Sustainable Logging by Indigenous
5. Excerpt,
Enviro-Newsbrief: A Spiritual Lens On the Environment
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.93
2/7/98
1. ARIZONA:
Judge Dismisses Suit On Hopi-Navajo Pact
2. BC
Indian Land Claims
3. World Water
Initiative in the Works
4. International
Year of Biodiversity
5. Sustainable
Business Network: February Site - Update
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.94
2/7/98
1. WASHINGTON:
Mining Action Alert - Save Buckhorn Mountain
2. CALIFORNIA:
An End to the California Gold Rush?
3. WISCONSIN:
Mining Moratorium & About Rio Algom's proposed Wolf River Mine
a.
Menominee Nation Applauds Landslide Vote for Mining Moratorium, but
Remains Cautious
and Vigilant
b.
Overview from "WISCONSIN'S DECISION FOR ETERNITY: A Closer Look at the
Proposed
Crandon Mine and its Potential Environmental Impacts"
c.
Meyer on mining moratorium bill
4. FINAL NOTICE,
Midwest Declining Amphibians Conference
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.95
2/8/98
1. WISCONSIN:
Kennecott Quits LaCrosse
2. Toxic metals
removal
3. USA: Dineh/
UN-Amor meeting
4. MAI: Canada
For Sale? (fwd)
5. Groundwater.Com
Updated, Free Listing Available
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.96
2/8/98
1. Action Alert!
Public Meetings on Right-to-Know
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.97
2/9/98
1. Foreign
investment in West Papua Megaproject
2. WISCONSIN:
Mining Moratorium
a.
Senators fix the Mining Moratorium Bill
b.
Mining on WORT Friday
3. AUSTRALIA:
Beverley uranium: the government's dirty secret
4. AUSTRALIA:
Plug pulled on Jabiluka NDA
5. AUSTRALIA:
Protest at copper smelter reopening
6. AUSTRALIA:
Win for sacked miners
7. Kyoto model
funded by industry
8. MAI: Anti-Globalisation
Actions Gain Momentum
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.98
2/10/98
1. MAI Call-in
Day TODAY!, Tuesday February 10
a.
The Future of MAI
b.
Nat'l MAI Call In Day Tuesday
2. CANADA:
Darnley Bay Resources Proposes Change to Park Boundaries
3. GUYANA:
New Cambior Allegations in Omai Disaster
4. CANADA:
COGEMA "Rapped" by AECB
5. BRITISH
COLUMBIA: BC's Ten Most Endangered Rivers of 1998
Nominations
Requested
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.99
2/10/98
1. RUSSIA: Unpaid Russian Miners Driven To Desperate Deeds
2. Updated bio-chemical warfare history
3. New list on nature writing
4. E-M:/ Michigan DEQ Pollution Prevention Newsletter
5. Teachers Against MAI (fwd)
6. 26 Countries Helped Saddam to Build Weapons of Mass
Destruction
7. US: Updated US Title 40 CFR Cd-Rom
8. Stop US involvement in Ukraine reactors
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.100
2/11/98
1. Drillbits
& Tailings; 7 February 1998, Volume 3 Number 3
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.101
2/11/98
1. USA: Crownpoint
Uranium Mining
2. Excerpt,
GREENLines: Victory in southern Arizona
3. CANADA:
Voisey's Bay
a.
Inco to Combine operations with Falconbridge
b.
Negotiating what could be the deal of the century 2/9/98
4. Global
street party!
5. SOUTH DAKOTA:
Yankton Sioux
6. Big Oil/Big
$$ Set sights on Arctic
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.102
2/14/98
1. TIMIKA:
Freeport to resettle 2,000 indigenous
2. EPA: Safety
Standards for the Use of Roof-Bolting Machines
3. PA: Pennsylvania
Business Given 87-Month Sentence
4. NV: Trenton
Canyon Mine Project Draft EIS
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.103
2/15/98
1. JAKARTA:
Freeport says insulated from economic turmoil
2. CANADA:
Citizen's Mining Council Action
3. CANADA:
INCO news and analysis
4. Quarrying
Company Told to Stop Extracting Limestone in National Park
5. Excerpts,
GREENLines Issue #563
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.104
2/15/98
1. NEW MEXICO:
New Uranium Mine Near Navajo Schools
2. CALIFORNIA:
Alert! Native occupation of nuclear waste site
3. EPA: FEIS
Available for Wyoming
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.105
2/17/98
1. BURMA: ICFTU
sends radio message to striking workers at Namtu
silver
mine
2. GLAMIS,
CALIF: Canadians plan pit mine on Quechan land
3. NWF: February
Mine of the Month - Asarco's Rock Creek Mine To Go On
Corporate
Welfare?
4. BIG MOUNTAIN,
ARIZONA: Dineh Update
a.
UN Commission Holds Hearings On Forced Relocation and Religious
Persecution
of Dineh people
b.
Big Mountain Discussion Group
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.106
2/17/98
1. CALIFORNIA:
Ward Valley Red Alert Update (fwd)
2. AUSTRALIA:
Action to Stop Jabiluka Uranium Mine
a.
Blockade, rallies to stop Jabiluka
b.
Join the Jabiluka blockade, Mirrar urge
3. AUSTRALIA:
Editorial: A new low
4. LABOR:
World trade union network against Rio Tinto launched
5. MAI: Nearly
Duped - No Change in U.S. MAI Position!
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EarthWINS Daily
#3.107
2/18/98
1. MICHIGAN:
Jordan River Valley Scam
2. CANADA:
Voisey Bay
a.
Voisey's Clipping
b.
Regional News: Voisey's Bay
3. New Uranium
Mine Near Navajo Schools
4. Excerpt,
Enviro-Newsbrief 2/17/98: New Law Creates Mediation Institute
For Resolving
Environmental Disputes
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