(November 29, 1998) ENERGY: With increasingly successful alternatives, has the promise of nuclear power run out of steam?
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We can’t wipe out debt, says government
(November 4, 1998) The government responds to pressure to wipe out the ‘apartheid debt’ by arguing that it’s not technically feasible. Critics say it is.
November 1998 Campaign Letter
Canada should stop supporting dictators with foreign aid and cash bailouts.
Canadian Discussion Paper for Rome Meeting
(October 31, 1998) The Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative represents approximately 30 churches, inter-church coalitions and church-related organizations who have joined together to sound a strong, new call for justice, peace and the integrity of creation.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission report excerpt
(October 30, 1998) South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) yesterday accused the country’s business sector of helping to sustain apartheid and called for financial contributions from business to make up for past injustices.
NO NUKES ASIA FORUM: Towards a Sustainable Energy Alternative for the 21st Century
(October 27, 1998) We realize that citizens of the industrialized world have been disillusioned by nuclear power and are successfully rejecting it, and that the industry is dying in most of those countries. It is this vanishing domestic market which has recently driven nuclear interests to step-up their sales pitch to Asian countries.
Background report: Resettlement problems of the Three Gorges dam (final part)
(October 26, 1998) Earlier this year, sociologist Wu Ming travelled to the counties around the Three Gorges Dam. Here is the third excerpt from his study, published by the International Rivers Network in March, 1998.
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Chinese press summary: overseas Chinese debate over Three Gorges project
This year’s flood disasters in China have prompted a vociferous debate on the Internet among expatriate Chinese communities in North America.
Big names join campaign
(October 20, 1998) Prominent South Africans have joined a campaign to scrap the apartheid debt before the millennium, says Jubilee 2000 organiser Neville Gabriel
Experts push for westward water diversion route
(October 14, 1998) Officials and experts yesterday called for preparatory steps to be taken in the construction of the final west route of the south-to-north water diversion project, to bring much needed water to parched Northwest China.
Probe Alert October 1998
Canadian Gold Mine Spills Deadly Cyanide
Background report: Resettlement problems of the Three Gorges dam (part III)
(September 28, 1998) Earlier this year, sociologist Wu Ming travelled to the counties around the Three Gorges Dam. Here is the third excerpt from his study, published by the International Rivers Network in March, 1998.
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China’s great leap backward
(September 21, 1998) The tragedy of the Three Gorges dam goes beyond the nearly two million people who will be resettled from their homes, villages, farms, temples, and work places to make way for it, beyond the 1,300 sites of cultural antiquities and the 100,000 hectares of precious farmland that will be submerged forever under the 600 kilometre long reservoir, and beyond the rare species that it will likely render extinct. Ironically, the tragedy created by the Three Gorges will also extend to the economy and its electricity sector – the chief justification for building the dam.
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