_______________________________________________________________ !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! !!! !!! !!! ! ! ! !!!!! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!inform" environmental inform-bulletin * number 26 * _______________________________________________________________ .............................................* SEPTEMBER 1994 * _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!" Moskovsky prospekt 120-34 236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg Russia telephone +7 0112 437286 E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org _______________________________________________________________ CONTENT NEWS Official ESTONIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPEAK... Meetings MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS _______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ ************************************************************** 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. ______________________________________________________________ ************************************************************** 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. _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************