(January 25, 2001) Canadian and U.S. environmental groups sign letter urging the Newfoundland-based Fortis Corporation to abandon its plans to invest in a hydro dam on Belize’s Macal river.
Letter to ADB urging investigation into Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project
(December 1, 2000) Re: ADB-financed Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project, Thailand
Letter to EDC President and CEO: EDC and the World Commission on Dams
(November 30, 2000) In the interest of an informed public debate about Canada’s role in large dam projects around the world, Patricia Adams asks EDC to provide the names of each dam that EDC has supported in the past, as well as the present and future.
Letter to EDC President and CEO: EDC and the World Commission on Dams
(November 30, 2000) In the interest of an informed public debate about Canada’s role in large dam projects around the world, Patricia Adams asks EDC to provide the names of each dam that EDC has supported in the past, as well as the present and future.
PRESS RELEASE: Canadian aid agency pays engineering firm to justify dam construction in Belize
(November 21, 2000) Hydro scheme threatens jaguar, Scarlet Macaw habitat.
Letter to Pierre Pettigrew, Minister for International Trade: EDC’s stonewalling tactics
(October 18, 2000) EDC’s contempt for the public’s right to know about its activities, is an affront to the democratic institutions of this country, writes Patricia Adams.
Letter to Pierre Pettigrew, Minister for International Trade: EDC’s stonewalling tactics
(October 18, 2000) EDC’s contempt for the public’s right to know about its activities, is an affront to the democratic institutions of this country, writes Patricia Adams.
PRESS RELEASE: Compensation for EDC-financed dam falls short for Colombia’s indigenous communities
(August 2, 2000) Citizens’ groups, including Probe International, are pressing the dam’s international financiers – Canada’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) among them – to share responsibility for damages caused by the Urr I dam.
PRESS RELEASE: Canadian-backed hydro scheme threatens Belize wildlife
(July 24, 2000) Probe International argues for better alternatives to Canadian-backed Challilo dam in Belize.
U.S. threat over ‘unfair’ exports: Canada’s EDC targeted
(July 6, 2000) This article, co-written by PI’s Executive Director, appeared on the front page of the National Post.
Leaked report blasts World Bank on China-Tibet resettlement scheme
(July 6, 2000) This PI news release details concerns over the China Western Poverty Reduction Project.
Pak Mool cost more than it’s worth
(June 9, 2000) EARLIER this year, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its performance review of Thailand’s most controversial hydro scheme, the World Bank-financed Pak Mool dam, confirming what observers have long suspected: The project is an economic failure and a growing financial liability to Thailand’s electricity ratepayers.
Secret of EDC’s ‘success’: Taxpayers’ money
(May 25, 2000) Patricia Adams’ controversial National Post article examines the EDC.
This is a race to the bottom! Export Development Corporation ‘will do anything’
(March 21, 2000) For 50 years the federal Crown export credit agency, the Export Development Corporation, has financed and insured the world’s most environmentally damaging and economically reckless projects, from the Three Gorges dam on China’s Yangtze River to the gold mines in South America and the former Soviet Union that spill cyanide into major waterways.
Can Canada be green and competitive?
(March 18, 2000) Speech to the 2000 National Foreign Policy Conference
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