(August 6, 2003) The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority should pay interest on delayed compensation for communities affected by the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project’s Phase 1B, Ombudsman says.
Legal fight doesn’t stop construction
(August 6, 2003) For the last several years the often harsh debate over construction of a hydroelectric dam on the upper Macal has been largely academic. That is, while the pros and cons of the Chalillo project were argued in the press and courts, the river kept right on rolling, oblivious to the increasingly rancorous exchange.
Kicking corruption in Kenya
(August 3, 2003) Mwai Kibaki, the new President of Kenya, is kicking corruption where it hurts, firing crooked government cronies and holding public officers to account. After 24 years of corrupt rule, Kenyans are rediscovering hope.
Hidden problems with China’s dams
(August 1, 2003) A respected Chinese publication investigates why more than one-third of the country’s dams and reservoirs are considered dangerous, and quotes a top hydropower engineer as saying, "There is something wrong with the whole management system."
More than troops
(August 1, 2003) Given the desperate needs of Liberians, especially in the areas of education and health services, the Bush administration should cancel Liberia’s odious debt, 30 percent of which is owed to the United States.
Privy Council to hear appeal against Belize dam
The Privy Council in the UK has ruled in favour of an appeal against the building of the Chalillo Dam in Belize. It is the first environmental case to reach such a high level.
Privy Council to hear appeal against Belize dam
(August 1, 2003) The Privy Council in the UK has ruled in favour of an appeal against
the building of the Chalillo Dam in Belize. It is the first
environmental case to reach such a high level.
A movement’s shifting stage
(August 1, 2003) Environmental activists “pitted against some of the world’s biggest energy companies over megaprojects in the Third World” are increasingly staging their battles in countries that fund such projects in environmentally fragile areas of Latin America.
Lutherans call for cancellation of illegitimate, odious debts
(July 31, 2003) The tenth assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has issued a statement calling on international financial institutions to acknowledge that part of the debt given to developing countries is odious and should be canceled.
Southern Africa calls for reparations for apartheid
(July 30, 2003) Loans to the apartheid regime and its agents are “odious debts” and should not be repaid, says the London-based International Apartheid Debt and Reparations Campaign.
Chile Indians block hydro-electric dam project
(July 28, 2003) RALCO – Four elderly Pehuenche Indian women are blocking completion of a $570 million hydroelectric dam at Ralco in southern Chile, saying it would flood sacred land and destroy their way of life.
Wheel of Iraq’s economic progress keeps rolling
(July 28, 2003) Iraq may be further burdened by debts and interest which even for an oil-rich state could take years to pay back. Unless there are some debt write-offs, at least the interest, Iraq will be facing the future with a major noose round its neck.
When is a debt not a debt?
(July 25, 2003) The war in Iraq has called into question much of the architecture of international relations built up since the Second World War, says Global Finance magazine. The aftermath might shape the way that money is lent to emerging markets.
ENDESA criticizes hard to the Stavenhagen Story, by declarations around Ralco Power station.
(July 25, 2003) Relator of the UN was imprudent affirmed ENDESA. The government, in as much, informed that only he will talk about the subject when the United Nations gives an official report on the work of the relator, which would happen in April of 2004.
Who profits from erasing Iraq’s debt?
(July 23, 2003) Richard Perle called for a debt relief for Iraq as a way of teaching banks about the "moral hazard of … lend[ing] to a vicious dictatorship." Other countries with "odious debt" incurred under nasty regimes may be granted debt forgiveness. Why not Iraq?
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