(December 8, 2000) Museum to store cultural relics from Three Gorges area
Coughing up for apartheid
(December 8, 2000) Foreign companies should face up to the truth about their roles in apartheid, a recent NGO conference in Germany concluded.
China turns floodwater into new source for irrigation
Floods become friends rather than foes in China, since the country has succeeded in making terrible summer floodwater useful in drought resistance.
Shanghai bans illegal fishing at mouth of Yangtze River
(December 8, 2000) Illegal fishing and eel catching are being cracked down at the mouth of the Yangtze River by the coast guards and frontier inspection police in Shanghai. The crusade, which began on Wednesday, aims to improve safety along the waterway of the longest river in China.
Canada’s Executive Director to ADB responds to Probe International, Re:Samut Prakam Wastewater Plant
(December 7, 2000) Response Letter of Julian H. Payne, Executive Director to ADB, to Grainne Ryder, Policy Director, Probe International.
Poor are sold down the river
(December 7, 2000) This article is by longtime Probe colleague and U.S. engineering consultant Phil Williams, a contributor to three Probe International books — Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don’t Want You to Know (1990), Yangtze!Yangtze! by Dai Qing (1994), and The River Dragon Has Come (1998, co-editor) — and founder of the Berkeley-based International Rivers Network.
Canada’s Executive Director to ADB responds to Probe International, Re:Samut Prakam Wastewater Plant
(December 7, 2000) Thank you for your fax letter dated 1 December 2000 (received here on 4 December due to the intervening weekend and time difference) concerning the Samut Prakam Wastewater Management Project in Thailand. Your interest in and attention to this ADB project are sincerely appreciated. As the Executive Director for Canada at the ADB, you can be assured that I take very seriously the allegations that you as a Canadian NGO have raised in your letter concerning this project.
China’s thirst for energy
(December 6, 2000) China’s environmental degradation from its rapid, no-holds barred industrialisation has reached the point where it is now interfering with future growth. Bodies such as the World Bank have estimated that the cost of environmental pollution is equivalent to several percentage points of GDP.
Tibet’s biggest hydropower project to go into operation
(December 6, 2000) The first generating unit in a 100,000-kw hydropower project in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region is expected to go in operation and go on stream late this year.
OECD agrees to clamp down on bribery in export credit transactions
(December 6, 2000) OECD member states announced in Paris today that they have agreed on an action programme to deter bribery in government-supported export credit transactions.
Heavy rain causes cracks of Yangtze River banks
(December 5, 2000) Continuous heavy rain over the past few days have caused a section of the Yangtze River to burst its banks in Yueyang, a city in central China’s Hunan Province, a local water resources official confirmed on Thursday.
At the public trough!
(December 3, 2000) “Fortis seeks and gets Canadian funding”. Article quotes Grainne Ryder.
On foreign interference in Belize
"(December 3, 2000) Probe responds to Norris Hall on Chalillo". Article features a letter by Grainne Ryder.
Wastewater plan under fire
(December 3, 2000) This article from a Thai newspaper discusses Probe International’s opposition to the ADB’s wastewater treatment project in Samut Prakan.
On foreign interference in Belize
(December 3, 2000) “Probe responds to Norris Hall on Chalillo”. Article features a letter by Grainne Ryder.
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