(November 7, 2010) Wall Street Journal report on Dai Qing’s pledge to attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for Liu Xiaobo.
Probe International in UN report
(May 27, 2009) Probe International is featured in the UN’s Independent Environmental Assessment for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The report addresses a range of concerns facing the capital city, including: air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and public transportation.
A damming indictment
(August 9, 2006) More than 30 dams planned across mainland Southeast Asia will bring electricity, population upheaval, food shortages and ecological destruction.
Yangtze River pollution at dangerous levels
(January 17, 2002) A new report raises fresh concerns about the potential health risks of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Critics of the project fear clean-up funds allocated by the Chinese government will not be enough. Canadian environmental group Probe International says in 2000, Chinese academics pleaded for $37 billion for environmental projects relating to the dam’s construction.
Society demanding cleaner and more efficient fuels
(February 5, 2001) Report on climate-friendly energy quotes Probe International’s Policy Director, Gráinne Ryder
Breaking the Bank
(May 25, 2000) A growing chorus is demanding that the powerful World Bank be closed.
It’s time for the World Bank to close its doors
(October 22, 1996) For more than decade, citizens’ groups around world have been trying stop World Bank from wreaking environmental havoc, financial ruin, social harm throughout Third World. Bank’s charismatic president, James Wolfensohn, has pledged change “culture” Bank increase “openness, partnership, accountability, effectiveness Bank.”
World Bank’s new information policy not enough, Canadian critic says
(August 28, 1993) The World Bank’s new “substantially more open information policy” is a half-measure that will not change the bank’s secret way, a leading Canadian critic says.
Why the banks must go
(1993) For more than ten years citizens groups from around the world have been trying to stop the World Bank and the other multilateral davelopment banks (MDBs) from wreaking environmnetal havoc, financial ruin, and social harm across the Third World.
Was India forced to reject World Bank aid?
(April 30, 1993) Various reasons are being put forward to explain why India refused further World Bank assistance for the controversial Sardar Sarovar project.
Taxpayer bailout looms large
(October 1992) Over one-third of World Bank projects fail.
Rio Agenda: Soak the West’s Taxpayers
“Fear by the North of environmental degradation provides the South the leverage that did not exist before.”
The World Bank machine
(March 28, 1992) It’s part Good Samaritian, part bully. Critics want it shut down.
Dam will change tribal people’s lives forever
(March 8, 1992) The Narmada River dam complex, among the world’s largest river projects is expected to flood the homes of at least 100,000 poeple when completed.
The World Bank is going green…
(October 13, 1991) A look at…lending to the Third World.
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