(November 2, 2001) Economic benefits ‘probably . . . zero,’ Kennedy says of project in crucial rainforest.

(November 2, 2001) It’s a major bombardment in the media of misleading information," says Fortis president and chief executive Stan Marshall.

(November 1, 2001) Leading environmentalists launch campaign against Fortis Inc. today at a Toronto Stock Exchange conference hosted by Probe International.

(November 1, 2001) Environmentalists target TSE-listed power company.

(October 31, 2001) Fortis, a Newfoundland-based power company, is creating havoc in the tiny Central American country of Belize. To build a wildly uneconomic hydro dam in the rain forests of Belize, Fortis is using its monopoly powers to shut out local power producers, keep out imported Mexican power, deny Belize consumers low-cost power and undermine Belize’s fastest growing industry, ecotourism.

(October 31, 2001) Robert Kennedy Jr, ricain bien connu entre autres pour son appui aux Cris contre le défunt projet Grande-Baleine, se joindra demain à la coalition internationale de verts s’opposant à la construction d’un barrage au Bacutelize.

(October 31, 2001) Belizean Prime Minister Said Musa says decision to build a second hydroelectric dam on Belize’s Macal River is the responsibility of Fortis, the Canadian company behind the project.

(October 31, 2001) Letter in reply to PI’s concern about the Chalillo hydro project in Belize.

(October 11, 2001) It seems that Fortis had slipped this behemoth project through the formal channels of environmental assessment with nary an eyebrow raised until the Natural History Museum of London, which immediately raised the red flag.

(October 18, 2001)A series of hard-hitting advertisements was launched today in the Maritime provinces by a coalition of groups united to stop Fortis Inc. from building a dam that would destroy a unique rainforest in Belize.

(October 10, 2001) Letter in response to PI’s concern about the Canadian International Development Agency’s (CIDA) role in the Challilo Dam project that is under consideration by the Government of Belize.

(October 4, 2001) CIDA must make public its assessment of the impact of the dam and should not allow the project to continue if it does not meet Canadian environmental standards.

(September 20, 2001) A new report from CIDA recommends that construction of the proposed Chalillo dam in Belize begin early next year, even though scientists warn against the scheme because of its devastating effects on Central American wildlife.