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(February 11, 2002) Last month bulldozers began illegally clearing a road through the rainforest to make way for the construction of the Chalillo dam which would flood the rainforest valley of the Upper Macal River – one of the wildest places left in Central America. This would not be happening without Canada’s help:
(February 11, 2002) OTTAWA – A coalition of environmental groups has placed an ad in today’s edition of the parliamentary paper, The Hill Times, that charges the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) with helping to justify a destructive and costly dam in the rainforests of Belize, Central America.
(February 10, 2002) Last month bulldozers began illegally clearing a road through the rainforest to make way for the construction of the Chalillo dam which would flood the rainforest valley of the Upper Macal River – one of the wildest places left in Central America.
As uneasiness grows about the potential consequences of a slapdash cleanup of the Three Gorges reservoir bed, a respected newspaper has reported some of the latest concerns of Chinese environmental experts.
A large team of Chinese professional photographers is to be taken soon on an official last-chance tour of the Three Gorges area, the Yangcheng Evening News (Yangcheng wanbao) reports.
He Gong, vice-president of the Three Gorges Project Corporation, spoke recently with the Three Gorges Daily saying that to meet the extremely tight schedule, "we have no time to waste and no room for errors."
(February 7, 2002) The latest research shows that the rich nations of Europe and North America, numbering some 50 million people, have the same income as the 2.7 billion poor people in the rest of the world.
(February 7, 2002) China will inject 4 billion yuan (US$483.1 million) in the next two years to keep its Three Gorges Reservoir area free of landslides and other geological hazards.
(February 5, 2002) Probe’s news release contains incorrect, irresponsible, and misleading statements, Fortis and AMEC tell The Telegram.
Serious pollutants such as radioactive waste, and hospital refuse that could cause infectious diseases, risk being overlooked in the Three Gorges reservoir cleanup, a senior member of China’s non-Communist advisory body, the CPPCC, has warned.
(February 4, 2002) Chongqing – Serious pollutants such as radioactive waste, and hospital refuse that could cause infectious diseases, risk being overlooked in the Three Gorges reservoir cleanup, a senior member of China’s non-Communist advisory body, the CPPCC, has warned.
(February 2, 2002) This is the Spanish version of the verdict handed down in February 2002 by the International Peoples’ Tribunal on Debt.
(February 2, 2002) On the basis of an accusation complemented by a broad range of documentary evidence and testimonies, the Popular Jury, integrated by persons representative of the societies of different countries, has come to the following verdict.
(February 2, 2002) Jubilee South convened the International Peoples’ Tribunal on Debt in Port Alegre, Brasil. Though it was a court of opinion rather than a court of justice, the Tribunal carefully and astutely upheld judicial traditions and processes.
(February 1, 2002) Leading energy critic Energy Probe submits formal complaint to the federal government over $390 million EDC loan to the Cernavoda-2 nuclear reactor project in Romania.
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