(May 9, 2000) While the EDC maintain its standard banking procedure not to disclose details of loans, a former bank regulator is calling for an independant review of the agency’s practises.
Laotian project revived
(May 3, 2000) The sponsor of the Nam Ngum 3 hydro power project in Laos is moving to kick-start the stalled US$600 million scheme, developed to export its electrical output to Thailand.
Historical background of Pak Moon dam
(May 2, 2000) Milestones from 1967 to 2000
True lies?
(May 2, 2000) The Pak Moon Dam seems to evoke different images to different people, depending on where they stand.
Fishing for power
(May 2, 2000) Were the Pak Moon Dam to continue its existence, subsequent generations of Northeastern villagers may grow up with a tale like this one.
Dominga and Denese, and the story of Rio Negro
(May 1, 2000) Story of Dominga Sic Ruiz (a.k.a. Denese), a survivor of the Rio Negro massacre in Guatemala.
Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world.
(April 28, 2000) Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world.
Struggle for a basic right to a livelihood
(April 27, 2000) Patience is running thin at Pak Moon and no one can blame the people there. Not after 12 years of struggles that led to a common conviction: the Pak Moon Dam must go.
Let river run free, village leaders say
(April 21, 2000) “Open the gates and the fish will return” People who lost their land and livelihood to the Pak Moon dam will petition the Electricity Generating Authority next month to halt operations and open the gates to let the river run free.
Documents suggest EDC influenced probe
(March 28, 2000) International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew is standing by an independent report reviewing the Export Development Corporation even though recently released government documents indicate the Crown corporation influenced the final draft of the report.
Pierre’s math
(March 23, 2000) When first challenged over the Export Development Corporation, Pierre Pettigrew asserted that it made commercially sound loans. This wasn’t very plausible, since the EDC exists precisely to make loans that commercial institutions won’t.
Minister’s numbers don’t add up
(March 23, 2000) International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew’s glowing presentation in the House of Commons this week of large profits at the Export Development Corporation — and a 50-year total of "only $1 billion" in federal grants to the trade agency — is undermined by the Chretien government’s quiet write-off of $800 million in bad EDC loans since 1992.
Opposition slams ‘sweetheart deals’
(March 22, 2000) The Export Development Corporation has shelled out more than $685 million in long-term, interest-free loans that are not repayable for up to 55 years to developing countries such as China, Pakistan and Gabon.
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.
Opposition demands to know where export billions went
(March 21, 2000) The "cloud of secrecy" that surrounds the Export Development Corp., a federal Crown corporation that is exempt from access to information laws, is covering up $2.8 billion in bad loans, opposition MPs charged yesterday.
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