(May 26, 2001) Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday promised that all sluice gates at Pak Moon dam would be opened in a few days.
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.
Export agency to open books
(May 15, 2001) In an effort to counter a damning report expected to be handed down today, the federal government’s export-development agency is planning to open its books to public scrutiny for the first time in its 32-year history.
Letter: Citizens groups world-wide show support for Thailand’s decision to open Pak Mun dam gates
(May 6, 2001) Letter to Thailand’s newly-elected Prime Minister, supporting his decision to open the Pak Mun dam gates to try to restore seasonal fish migrations between the Mekong and the Mun rivers, signed by 96 organizations, including PI.
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.
Villagers set to end marathon protest
(April 4, 2001) Cabinet resolution gives hope in an agreement to open all eight sluice gates of Pak Moon dam between May and September this year while an ecological impact study is done.
LatAm indigenous groups claim Canada finances forced dislocation
(April 3, 2001) Alberto Achita, a leader of the Embera Katio tribe in Colombia, and Sara Imilmaqui Aguas of the Mapuche nation in Chile say the Canadian government is contributing to their forced dislocation by helping finance controversial hydro-electic dam projects.
Indigenous leaders from the Americas protest Export Development Corporation trade financing
(April 3, 2001) 130,000 Canadians sign letters addressed to Minister Pettigrew calling for tighter regulation of the Export Development Corporation.
NGO letter to World Bank Executive Directors
(May 29, 2001) NGO sign-on letter on outstanding issues with the Bujagali falls dam in Uganda, which went to every Executive Director of the World Bank, 29 May 2001.
Exaggerations of World Commission on Dams: Brazil’s water resources secretary vs IRN
(March 27, 2001) Mr. Raymundo Garrido, Water Resources Secretary of the Brazilian federal Environment Ministry, and Glenn Switkes, Latin America Program Director of International Rivers Network, debate the World Commission on Dams in Brazil’s Gazeta Mercantil.
Chixoy dam affected people – seek reparations
(March 14, 2001) A message of solidarity from the Maya-Achi.
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