(October 17, 2001) New legislation makes Canada’s Export Development Corporation judge, jury and executioner, Probe International to tell Parliamentary Committee.
PRESS RELEASE: Destroy the environment with our blessing, federal government tells crown corporation
(October 17, 2001) New legislation makes Canada’s Export Development Corporation judge, jury and executioner, Probe International to tell Parliamentary Committee.
Halifax Initiative’s submission to SCFAIT hearings on Bill C-31
(October 15, 2001) Link to the NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation’s submission to SCFAIT on Bill C-31.
Endesa to press ahead with Ralco
(October 12, 2001) Endesa announces that the Ralco hydroelectric power plant on the 240-mile long Bío Bío river, will go on-line December 2003, six months later than planned. EDC provided Quebec’s ABB Alstom with US$17-million in financing for generating equipment.
BILL C-31: AN ACT TO AMEND THE EXPORT DEVELOPMENT ACT AND TO MAKE CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS
(September 28, 2001) BILL C-31: AN ACT TO AMEND THE EXPORT DEVELOPMENT ACT AND TO MAKE CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS
EDC balks at releasing project details: Three of 26 questioned projects to remain confidential
(July 29, 2001) The Export Development Corporation will not make public details of three projects judged in a report by the auditor general to have been improperly assessed under the corporation’s environmental review process.
Study urges expansion of information access laws
(July 21, 2001) Crown agencies including the CBC and the Export Development Corporation should be subject to the Access to Information Act despite their concerns about such a move, a study prepared for the federal government recommends.
Federal support of exports: too secretive
(June 8, 2001) The Access to Information Act should apply to the Export Development Corporation – Montreal’s M‚tro newspaper quotes Probe International.
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.
Canada’s role in Colombia probed
(June 1, 2001) Canada’s Export Development Corp. has come under fire for helping finance the Urra dam, which has displaced thousands of members of the Embera-Katio tribe in northwestern Colombia.
Secretive EDC agrees to be more transparent: Dramatic reversal in disclosure policy credits Citizen
(May 22, 2001) The Export Development Corporation has made a stunning reversal in its disclosure policy, mostly in response to pressure from non-governmental organizations and the media.
EDC projects fail environmental audit: 24 of 26 cases not assessed properly for risk
(May 16, 2001) More than 90 per cent of Export Development Corporation projects examined in a scathing report by the auditor general were not properly assessed under the corporation’s environmental review process.
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.
NGO group slams export agency’s ‘reckless lending’
(May 15, 2001) The Export Development Corporation is still assisting environmentally and socially disastrous projects around the world even after a framework review was introduced, says a new report by the NGO Working Group on the EDC.
Export Development Corporation needs to strengthen its environmental practices and be more open
(May 15, 2001) Auditor General of Canada says that EDC needs to address gaps in its environmental review process and to be more open with the public, particularly concerning environmentally risky projects.
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