For Love and Freedom on Clean Mother-Earth! _______________________________________________________________ !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! !!! !!! !!! ! ! ! !!!!! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!inform" environmental inform-bulletin * number 24 * _______________________________________________________________ ................................................* AUGUST 1994 * _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!" Moskovsky prospekt 120-34 236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg Russia telephone +7 0112 437286 E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org _______________________________________________________________ CONTENT News on: - SCANDALS - PUBLICATIONS - MEETINGS: DIRECT ACTION CONFERENCE AND MADRID' ALTERNATIVE FORUM WORKSHOPS - ENVIRONMENTAL: INGNALINA NPP, SIEMENS' PLUTONIUM PLANT, 1000 BIRD SPECIES IN DANGER Meeting 6th BALTIC YOUTH CONFERENCE "RURAL LIFE IN TRANSITION" ECODEFENSE!inform present THE WISSENSCHAFTSLADEN HANNOVER e.V. an agency between scientific research and social&ecological demands _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** SCANDALS Oil scandal (B&B N 63 (163) , Member of the Latvian Parliament Arystid Lambergs accuses the government that, by granting the monopoly right for oil trade to Lattransnafta, a company that has never been of any importance in the business, it jeopardizes the existence of other oil traders. World Bank Slips (B&B N 63 (163), Latvian expertstogether with a representative of the WB refute its calculations on the size of a milk farm requisite for its profitability. According to them, the WB has understated production cost and failed to take into account such indicators, as social and land taxes, etc. PUBLICATIONS Published "Zielone Brygady" (Green Brigades) issue 7 (July 1994), the magazine on polish environmental problems, green movement, international cooperation. Available in Polish, contact: Slawkowska 12/24, 31-014 Krakow, Poland, tel. +48 12222147, fax 222264, e-mail:zielbryg@gn.apc.org Published "CAP" - an interactive ANPED newsletter for changing consumption and production patterns issue 4 1994. Available in English, Contact: ANPED - Alliance of Northern People for Environment and Development c/o WISE, PO Box 18185, 1001 ZB Amsterdam, tel.+31 20 6392681, fax + 31 20 6391739, e-mail: wise@wise.antenna.nl MEETINGS Non-Violent Direct Action Initiatives Center is planning to organize in Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg the International Meeting of radical environmentalists by December 1994. Contact: Moskovsky pr.120-34, 236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg, Russia, tel.+7 0112 437286, e-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org Some environmental groups in Baltic Sea region is organizing the workshops for Alternative Forum on Bretton Woods activities in Madrid/Spain (september-october). Contacts: The Environmental Protection Club of Latvia (Anzelika Gudone), Smilsu 12, Riga, Latvia. tel 371-2-224023/323150, fax: 371-2- 212917 is preparing a workshop about the Baltic situation in relation to the Bretton Woods. Forum (Marit Nyborg), Fredensborgyn 39, 0177 Oslo, Norway. tel: +47 22 36 22 00, fax: +47 22 36 22 80 email: fivas@nn.apc.org Forum is organising a workshop about World Bank and the Nordic Countries together with Swedish NGO's. ENVIRONMENTAL REACTOR HALTED AT LITHUANIAN NUCLEAR PLANT VILNIUS, Aug 9 (Reuter) A nuclear reactor at Lithuania's Ignalina power station was shut down on Tuesday because of a malfunction but there was no leak of radiation, Lithuanian radio reported. SIEMENS GETS LEGAL GO-AHEAD FOR PLUTONIUM PLANT By J. Terence Gallagher BONN, Aug 9 (Reuter) - Siemens AG on Tuesday got the go-ahead for a controversial plutonium plant at Hanau, near Frankfurt, where construction has been mired in a legal battle EXPERTS FOCUS ON PROTECTING-STOCKHOLM, (Aug. 10) IPS Shortsighted politicians must shoulder some of the blame for failing to protect a diminishing water supply, says a water expert attending a four-day symposium on the preservation of the precious BBC Summary of World Broadcasts August 11, 1994 German toxic waste blamed for increase in stillbirths in Albanian village SOURCE: DDP-East German News Agency news agency, Berlin, in German 0847 gmt 9 Aug 94 Text of report Cologne: In the toxic BNA INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT DAILY Aug. 11, 1994 Taxation ENERGY TAX WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL FOR GERMAN CHEMICAL FIRMS, EXECUTIVE SAYS DUSSELDORF, Germany (BNA) The president of one of Germany's big three chemical companies warned on July 28 GERMAN POLICE SEIZE NUCLEAR SMUGGLERS MUNICH, Germany, Aug 11 (Reuter) German police have seized weapons-grade nuclear materials for the second time this year, confirming fears that the country has become a transit route for smuggled radioactive CONSERVATIONISTS SAY 1,000 BIRD SPECIES IN DANGER BONN, Aug 12 (Reuter) More than 1,000 species of bird are in danger of extinction unless action is taken to protect them, a conservationist group said on Friday. Birdlife International said _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** 6th BALTIC YOUTH CONFERENCE "RURAL LIFE IN TRANSITION" Time: SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 2 1994, Place: Prora/Germany This conference is being held for the first time in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and it will deal with the life of young people in rural areas. Coference language is German and English. The '94 conference is being organized by the Regional Youth Council of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in cooperation with the Rural Youth Councils of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein as well as with the Baltic Youth Office of the Regional Youth Council Schleswig-Holstein. Participation in this conference is free and includes board and lodging, participants pay their own travel costs. If necessary, participants from Eastern Europe can apply for a subsidy for travel costs during the conference. WORKSHOPS "Dealing with the ecological advantages of rural areas" Dealing with ecological questions has a long tradition in the area of youthwork and in the meantime it is a large part of the whole spectrum of youth activities. This is especially true for rural areas, in which environmental subjects have a more existential importance in the sense of being of life-long importance for the people in these areas. This workshop will deal with the environmental "treasures" found in rural areas. Also in the time of conference following wirkshops will available: "Not Without Us: Youth Policy with Respect to Participation" "Life in Rural Areas: Our Responsibilitiy!" Youthwork in Rural Areas "Youth in Rural Areas and the Working World" "Study of the Life Situations of Youth in Rural Areas" For more information: Regional Youth Council of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V., Von-Flotow-Str.7, 19059 Schwerin, Deutchland (Germany), tel. +49 385 712275, fax +49 385 712115 _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** THE WISSENSCHAFTSLADEN HANNOVER e.V. In the 80th in Germany many of the critical scientists were unsatisfied with the framework of their own scientific work at universities and research institutions, mainly with the ever growing distance of scientific knowledge and the needs of everyday life. Because of this some of thesepeople fouded a non-university institution, that was situated just within this gap between science and daily life. The aim was to confront the scientific communitu with the needs of society and to bring (back) social and ecological responsibility to the university. The Wissenschaftsladen Hannover e.V. was founded in 1986. Because of the nuclear accident in the Soviat Union that year one of the first main topics of work were informations about nuclear technology and radioactivity. Lucky enough there were not only scientists but academics, pedagogues and other as well. From the beginning there was the intention to work in interdisciplinary teams. Today the Wissenschaftsladen Hannover e.V. has about 30 permanent members and several corresponding members. It's a registered society and financed by membership subscriptions, donations, expert-opinions and several projects. The honorary members and the employees of the Wissenschaftsladen are working on several different topics in the sphere of ecology and environmental protection. Remaining constant, Wissenschaftsladen aims can still be described as follows: science for the benefit of the public and science for the benefit of the environment. (to be concluded in next issue) _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** ECODEFENSE!inform bulletins get more than 150 env.NGOs of EARTH *************************************************************** 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. *************************************************************** The reprint are welcome (with the reference, if possible). *************************************************************** Editorial Board: Alexandra Koroleva, Vladimir Sliviak ***************************************************************