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>JAPANESE CRITICAL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT CONTROLLED

>Y2K OR NOT, RUSSIAN NUKE PLANTS NEED SAFETY UPGRADES

>EUROPE'S ELECTRONICS FIRMS UNWILLING TO GET THE LEAD OUT

>DEA DRUG HAWKS SWOOP DOWN ON BIRDSEED

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>AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 30, 1999

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>* DRBC Lifts Drought Emergency Actions

>* AllGreen Plant Produces First Quality MDF

>* Cleaner Air at Lower Costs; NTIS Announces New CD-ROM of Vital Energy

>Data

>* Rainforest Activism with an Internet Twist

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>JAPANESE CRITICAL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT CONTROLLED

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>TOKAI, Japan, October 1, 1999 (ENS) - Japanese emergency crews have brought

>under control a nuclear chain reaction resulting from an accident Thursday

>morning at the JCO Co. uranium processing plant in Tokaimura village,

>Ibaraki Prefecture.

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>Y2K OR NOT, RUSSIAN NUKE PLANTS NEED SAFETY UPGRADES

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>WASHINGTON, DC, September 30, 1999 (ENS) - Nuclear accidents in Russia will

>be no more likely than usual due to the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug, the

>U.S. Department of Energy has concluded. But there are still Y2K

>issues with some power plant systems that could pose safety problems,

>according to testimony presented to the Senate Y2K committee on Tuesday.

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>EUROPE'S ELECTRONICS FIRMS UNWILLING TO GET THE LEAD OUT

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>BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 30, 1999 (ENS) - Electronics manufacturers in

>Europe say they need to use some toxic materials such as cadmium, lead and

>mercury and a proposed ban in five years would hurt the industry.

>Published in cooperation with ENDS Environment Daily

>Website: http://www.ends.co.uk/envdaily }

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>DEA DRUG HAWKS SWOOP DOWN ON BIRDSEED

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>DETROIT, Michigan, September 30, 1999 (ENS) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement

>Administration (DEA) has seized a tractor trailer of sterilized Canadian

>hemp seed on its way to a large U.S. company that has been selling hemp

>birdseed blends for years.

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>ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 30, 1999

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>Enviros Uncover Nation’s Dirtiest Oil Refineries

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>Animal Testing May Cost Gore Support, Actor Warns

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>Groundwater Protected on Island in Maine

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>New Jersey Scientists Demonstrate Arsenic Filter in Bangladesh

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>Biosensor Could Reduce Food Poisoning Risks

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>Alaska Gold Mine Lease Promises Environmental Reclamation

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>Watershed Computer Model Predicts Land Use Effects

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>Computer Company Rewrites Campaign to Exclude Penguins

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>Earth Science Agency Ready for Y2K Tremors

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>Forest Activists Plant 10 Millionth Tree

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>TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND STATE EDITORS:

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>DRBC Lifts Drought Emergency Actions

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> WEST TRENTON, N.J., Sept. 30 -/E-Wire/-- Two major storms that

>unleashed heavy rains along the East Coast along with recent showers

>prompted the Delaware River Basin Commission to lift drought emergency

>actions it had put in place last month.

> /CONTACT: , 609-883-9500 ext. 205, or e

>Rupert, 609-883-9500 ext. 260, both of the Delaware River Basin Commission/

> /Web site: http://www.state.nj.us/drbc /

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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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>CanFibre Passes Critical Production Milestone at Riverside

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>AllGreen Plant Produces First Quality MDF

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> BOSTON & TORONTO - Sept 30, -/E-Wire/-- Kafus Industries Ltd. (AMEX:

>KS) and The CanFibre Group Ltd (Canadian Dealing Network CFGL) are pleased

>to announce that CanFibre's Riverside MDF facility has now successfully

>produced its first run of premium AllGreen MDF of sufficient high standard

>to wear the AllGreen label. Although the facility has been producing

>starter and shop grade MDF since late May of this year, this marks the

first

>time that CanFibre's Riverside plant has consistently produced a premium

>industrial grade MDF.

>CONTACT: Tony Francel, Manager, Investor Relations, (888) 333-5377, or

(781)

>326-5001, Fax: (781) 326-5105

>Carl, President, The CanFibre Group Ltd., (416) 681-9990, Fax: (416)

>681-9992

>Website: http://www.canfibre.com

>Website: http://www.kafus.com

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>TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:

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> Cleaner Air at Lower Costs; NTIS Announces New CD-ROM of Vital

Energy

>Data

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> SPRINGFIELD, Va., Sept. 30 -/E-Wire/-- For the past 15 years, much of

>the nation's environmental attention has been focused on reducing nitrogen

>oxides that can cause smog, acid rain, and ozone. In an effort to reduce

>these harmful pollutants, the U.S. Department of Energy spends between $350

>million and $400 million a year to improve the way we produce and use

fossil

>fuels: coal, natural gas, and petroleum. This research is fostering

>revolutionary innovations that could dramatically improve the efficiency,

>environmental acceptability, and economic competitiveness of fossil fuels.

> /CONTACT: , Public Affairs Director of National

Technical

>Information Service, 703-605-6400, or redwards@.../

> /Web site: http://www.ntis.gov/

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>TO ENVIRONMENT EDITOR:

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>Rainforest Activism with an Internet Twist

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> ANCHORAGE, AK Sept 30 -/E-Wire/-- What have you done to help save

>America's rainforests? Don't really have time? Well, the Alaska

Rainforest

>Campaign has rolled out a new dynamic web site putting tools in the hands

of

>Internet activists empowering them in the fight to save Alaska's wildlands.

> CONTACT: the Alaska Rainforest Campaign at (907) 222-2552, email

>info@....

> Website: http://www.akrain.org

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