(November 28, 2001) In your response to my article “Belize needs a free energy market, not more dams,” National Post, October 31, 2001, you insist that your parent utility, Fortis/Belize Electricity, is not using its monopoly to protect BECOL’s Chalillo hydro dam from competition.

(November 16, 2001) Letter from Belize Electric Company Ltd., A Fortis Company, in reaction to Grainne Ryder’s article entitled “chalillo news-and-opinion belize-needs-free-energy-market-not-more-dams” Belize needs a free energy market, not more dams dated October 31, 2001, published in the National Post.

(November 15, 2001) Belize government decision to grant clearance to Newfoundland-based Fortis Inc. for its proposed Chalillo hydro dam contravenes Belize environmental law, say citizens groups.

(November 15, 2001) The government of Belize has decided to approve construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in a jungle valley, destroying some of the richest rainforest habitat in the country.

(November 2, 2001) Economic benefits ‘probably . . . zero,’ Kennedy says of project in crucial rainforest.

(November 2, 2001) It’s a major bombardment in the media of misleading information," says Fortis president and chief executive Stan Marshall.

(November 1, 2001) Leading environmentalists launch campaign against Fortis Inc. today at a Toronto Stock Exchange conference hosted by Probe International.

(November 1, 2001) Environmentalists target TSE-listed power company.

(October 31, 2001) Fortis, a Newfoundland-based power company, is creating havoc in the tiny Central American country of Belize. To build a wildly uneconomic hydro dam in the rain forests of Belize, Fortis is using its monopoly powers to shut out local power producers, keep out imported Mexican power, deny Belize consumers low-cost power and undermine Belize’s fastest growing industry, ecotourism.

(October 31, 2001) Robert Kennedy Jr, ricain bien connu entre autres pour son appui aux Cris contre le défunt projet Grande-Baleine, se joindra demain à la coalition internationale de verts s’opposant à la construction d’un barrage au Bacutelize.