Switzerland–ABB, the global technology and engineering company, has been awarded a contract to deliver advanced high-voltage switchgear for the Three Gorges hydro power station in China. The US$ 112-million contract – the third order ABB has won for this major power infrastructure project – was awarded by the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation. Construction is scheduled to begin in the year 2001 and to be completed in 2004.
Finance Minister: Pak Mun dam (Thailand)
(September 14, 1999) Reply concerning the impact of the Pak Mun Dam in Thailand on the people who live and work nearby.
Vietnam revises down power output target
(September 13, 1999) The Vietnamese government has decided to revise down the country’s power output target of this year because of slackening consumption.
Guatemalan citizens harmed by World Bank-financed dam seek justice
(September 10, 1999) More than 17 years after a series of violent repressions stemming from Rio Negro’s opposition to the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric dam, three civil patrol commanders are being tried as material authors of the massacre.
PRESS RELEASE Guatemalan citizens harmed by World Bank-financed dam seek justice
(September 10, 1999) More than 17 years after a series of violent repressions stemming from Rio Negro’s opposition to the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric dam, three civil patrol commanders are being tried as material authors of the massacre.
Nigeria begins slow return from military rule
(September 3, 1999) President Olusegun Obasanjo intends to spend his 100th day in office working as usual, officials told AFP this week.
It’s ecology vs economy, China warns
SEPA vice-minister Zhu Guangyao said the Chinese government would ‘make very substantial changes to the original development process’ for the Nu River dam project.
Acres International replies
(August 27, 1999) We feel compelled to correct the record as it has been characterized in Patricia Adams’ commentary. Ms. Adams refers to Acres International and suggests that monies were improperly paid by our company to an official with the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). This is simply not the case. We did not make any such payments, and we have no knowledge of any improper transactions.
International donors fund Mekong River projects with $31Million
(August 27, 1999) International donors have pledged to disburse US$31.5 million for a Mekong basin development project and a programme on water exploitation by Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, according to General Secretary of Vietnam’s Mekong River Committee Nguyen Hong Toan.
SA can set anti-corruption example
(August 26, 1999) “There is no question that as we move into the global information age, foreign corrupt practices threaten to undermine both the growth and the stability of our global trade and financial system”, said Al Gore.
Truth panel will call Nigeria’s strongmen to account
(August 22, 1999) Nigeria is to investigate the sins of its military past in an unprecedented attempt to curb the power of the generals who have ruled for most of the years since independence.
FEBRUARY 28: Obasanjo wins Nigerian
(August 20, 1999) Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former military ruler, swept back to power as the state’s first elected civilian leader in 15 years.
Foreign aid corruption case puts Canada on trial
(August 20, 1999) ‘Corruption has to be tackled head on,’ declared Diane Marleau, Canada’s minister for foreign aid this spring, two months after Canada adopted the OECD’s anti-corruption convention by making bribery of foreign public officials a criminal offence. But on the eve of the world’s first foreign aid-related corruption court case — one involving Canadian engineering giant Acres International — the government agencies concerned mostly appear to be abdicating responsibility.
International firms in SA bribery scandal
(August 17, 1999) Several international construction companies that have handled major contracts in Uganda and Kenya have been named in a 12 million rand ($2.5 million) corruption scandal in South Africa and Lesotho
Corruption must be fought in north and south
(August 17, 1999) Business Day’s exposure of bribery on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project is a pointer to the degree to which the practice of corruption is increasingly becoming the norm in substantial sectors of big business.
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