(January 29, 2004) In a split 3-2 judgment, a judicial committee of the council ruled that the environmental impact assessment done by regulatory authorities in Belize was sufficient to support construction of the dam.

(December 5, 2003) Lawsuit exposes concealment of key safety information by Belize government and Canadian company.

(December 3, 2003) A dam in Belize backed by a Canadian company is fundamental to the country’s economic development, Belize’s attorney general said Wednesday as he warned of dire consequences if the project is delayed by Britain’s Privy Council.

(December 3, 2003) The British Privy Council begins a hearing that will determine the future of a Canadian-backed dam in Belize, which its opponents say will damage the country’s sensitive environment and destroy Mayan archeological sites.

(December 3, 2003) The UK’s historic Privy Council is to hear a challenge to the construction of a dam in Belize, in central America.

(December 3, 2003) Belize’s prime minister on Wednesday defended a dam-building scheme
that environmentalists say would destroy one of the largest undisturbed
wildernesses in Central America.

(December 2, 2003) UK Privy Council hears a challenge by Belizean environmentalists to their government’s environmental approval of the project.

(December 2, 2003) Ottawa agency complicit in Belize plan that will endanger local people and environment, writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

(November 28, 2003) BACONGO charges reckless endangerment.

(November 24, 2003) The highest court in the Commonwealth will hear the case brought by environmental groups and business owners against the Belize government’s approval of the Chalillo dam.