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