(December 31, 1989) Through the Asian Development Bank, Canadian taxpayers financed studies recommending up to 15 giant hydroelectric dams on the upper Mekong and 40 tributary dams; Mekong farms, fisheries and water supplies, vital to the livelihoods of 100 million people, are threatened.
Probe Alert Fall 1989
Environmentalists, fed up with World Bank rhetoric, demand promises be honoured
Probe Alert Fall 1989
The plight of the barabaig
China’s politics of the environment
(August 24, 1989) Some critics of China’s environmental politics have been driven from office or are imprisoned – as with the detention of China’s outspoken journalist Dai Qing.
Probe Alert Fall 1989
“India’s Greatest Planned Environmental Disaster” Sardar Sarovar largest of 30 mega-dams on Narmada river
Financing Third World
(July 13, 1989) The world in general, and the Thrid World in particular, is in a sorry state if it “needs” the debt crisis to solve its environmental problems.
Probe Alert Summer 1989
Canadian-financed dam uproots 25,000 without fair compensation
Canada not secretive
(April 17, 1989) In reference to Paul Knox’s March 9 column on Canada and the World Bank, I would like to correct the mistaken notion that the Canadian government is being secretive in its relations with the bank.
Canada keeps quiet on World Bank role
(March 9, 1989) As Latin Americans struggle to revive their stalled hopes of progress, it is becoming clear that they will achieve little unless the world’s economic powers offer them concerted help.
Canada must let public know how it votes on World Bank loan
(March 9, 1989) The Canadian public has no right to know how Canada will be voting on a controversial, $500 million US loan to Brazil that will speed rainforest destruction, according to Michael Wilson, Canada’s governor to the World Bank, in a recent letter to Probe International.
Journalists oppose Three Gorges plan
(March 1, 1989) In yet another sign that China has lost control over its intellectuals, a group of journalists banded together, yesterday to launch a campaign against a major government project: the massive dam proposed at the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.
IBRD, Articles of Agreement: Article III, section 5
(February 16, 1989) IBRD Articles of Agreement require the bank to “make arrangements to ensure that the proceeds of any loan are used only for the purposes for which the loan was granted.” World Bank
November 1989 Campaign Letter
Petro-Canada is threatening rainforest species – and native communities – with extinction.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (U.S.)
(December 6, 1988) The FCPA prohibits corrupt payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining or keeping business. The Department of Justice is the chief enforcement agency, with a coordinate role played by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Great Britain v. Costa Rica
(October 18, 1988) Held: (a) In respect of the Banking Transactions: That the Costa Rican Law of Nullities, which in effect relieved Costa Rica of any obligations in respect of these transactions, did not constitute an international wrong. The transactions in question, which in themselves did not constitute transactions of an ordinary nature and which were ” full of irregularities,” were made at a time when the popularity of the Tinoco Government had disappeared, and when the political and military movement aiming at the overthrow of that Government was gaining strength.
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