(February 18, 2005) Once again Canada has found cause to wag its diplomatic finger at Africa, this time shaking a despairing head over Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and his government’s failure to stamp out corruption.
Patricia Adams’ Oral Statement to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
(October 29, 2004) The oral statement presented by Patricia Adams to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the roundtable discussion on multilateral development bank corruption.
PI News Release: World Bank report confirms Nam Theun 2 is not Thailand’s least-cost power option
(October 12, 2004) A study commissioned by the World Bank reports Thailand has alternatives to the Nam Theun 2 hydro project in Laos that are cheaper and commercially viable, but that they were excluded from the country’s official power development plans.
PI Submission to World Bank Nam Theun 2 Workshop
(September 10, 2004) Based on Probe International’s review of all available information, World Bank and Asian Development Bank funding for the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project would constitute foreign aid abuse.
Friends of the Earth?
(September 7, 2004) Western conservationists back Indochina’s largest, most environmentally destructive hydro scheme.
French-led hydro venture in Lao PDR is uncompetitive and obsolete, says new report
(July 1, 2004) Power consumers, rural poor would be better served by smaller projects.
World Bank gets cold feet in Laos
(July 15, 2003) This month Thailand is expected to sign a multi-billion-dollar deal to buy power from the decade-old Nam Theun 2 hydro project in central Laos. But the dam’s fate will ultimately be decided in Washington, D.C., not Bangkok.
PRESS RELEASE: Belize government disavows Canadian-backed rainforest dam
(August 8, 2002) In a dramatic turnaround, the Belize government has denied ever giving Canadian power company Fortis Inc. permission to build a controversial hydro dam in one of Central America’s last undisturbed rainforests.
Statement by Ms. Adams on Bill C-31 to the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
(November 21, 2001) Bill C-31 will allow EDC to write the rules, establish the criteria, define the terms, assess itself, and then decide whether or not it is justified in supporting a project that will destroy the environment.
Probe International’s brief to SCFAIT on Bill C-31
(October 18, 2001) All spin and no substance: Bill C-31 is a devious bill drafted to convince the public that EDC is doing something to protect the environment while, in fact, EDC is frustrating efforts to stop its environmentally-damaging activities.
PRESS RELEASE: Probe International slams CIDA secrecy
(August 29, 2001) Probe International demands the release of a CIDA-financed environmental assessment of Belize’s proposed Chalillo dam.
EDC Secrecy Threatens Canadian Democracy
(June, 29, 2001) Probe International’s report on EDC’s draft disclosure policy.
Government Secrecy Threatens Canadian Democracy
(June 1, 2001) Probe International argues that the Canadian government’s growing predilection for secrecy is alarming. Probe recommends that the disclosure of information on public interest grounds should prevail over corporate interests.
Reckless Lending: How Canada’s Export Development Corporation Puts People and Environment at Risk
(May 15, 2001) The Senegal River Basin Development Project, a US$1-billion dam project, completed in 1988, has already brought economic ruin, malnutrition, and disease to hundreds of thousands of West African farmers, and is expected to spread more misery when it starts generating power in 2002.
PRESS RELEASE: International scientists issue warning to Canadian multinational
(April 25, 2001) Canadian hydro dam threatens Central American wildlife. Some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists and wildlife experts have joined the campaign against a hydro scheme that threatens endangered Central American wildlife.
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