(June 23, 2000) The World Bank repeatedly violated its own rules when assessing the viability of a highly controversial project to resettle 57,750 Chinese farmers on what were traditionally Tibetan lands, according to a scathing independent report.
FBI raids British firm’s offices
(June 22, 2000) Balfour Beatty – which also has a contract for the controversial Ilusi dam in Turkey and may face prosecution in Lesotho over alleged corruption payments over a dam project – was raided this month by 40 FBI agents.
UK firms paid a pounds 1.2M bribe to get dam contract
(June 14, 2000) British firms are among a dozen of the best known international construction companies involved in a trial in the remote South African kingdom of Lesotho.
Jakarta Declaration for reform of Official Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies
(June 13, 2000) Over 50 representatives of Indonesian and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and social movements convened in Jakarta and South Sumatra 1-7 May, 2000 for a strategy meeting on official export credit and investment insurance agencies (ECAs). They agreed on the following Declaration, endorsed by 347 NGOs from 45 countries.
Highlands hearing may land multinationals in hot water
(June 12, 2000) Today a landmark case gets under way in Maseru with the potential to embarrass some the world`s largest construction companies.
Bigger fish in the dock in Lesotho trial
(June 11, 2000) The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) R25-million corruption trial restarts in Maseru next week.
Pak Mool cost more than it’s worth
(June 9, 2000) EARLIER this year, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its performance review of Thailand’s most controversial hydro scheme, the World Bank-financed Pak Mool dam, confirming what observers have long suspected: The project is an economic failure and a growing financial liability to Thailand’s electricity ratepayers.
International NGO letter to Thailand’s Prime Minister, May 19, 2000
(May 19, 2000) We write to express our support for the members of the Assembly of the Poor who are currently occupying the crest of Pak Mun dam and the fish ladder. They are demanding that the Thai Government and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand open the dam gates to allow the fish to migrate up the Mun from the Mekong to breed as they did in former times. We wholeheartedly support the villager s efforts to recover their lost livelihood and restore the ecology of the Mun River.
‘I think the EDC should be shut down’: Q&A
(May 19, 2000) Paul McKay discusses the EDC with Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Probe International.
‘I think the EDC should be shut down’: Q&A
(May 19, 2000) Paul McKay discusses the EDC with Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Probe International.
The Pak Mool [Mun] dam is worse than useless
(May 15, 2000) Let’s admit it. The Pak Mool dam is one of Thailand’s worst mistakes. The hydroelectric project not only falls short of expectations on economic gains, but also generates economic losses for thousands of fishing families in the Mool river basin.
Does India need big dams?
(May 15, 2000) Debate: Does India need big dams? B.G. Verghese (for) and Sanjay Sangvai (against) big dams.
Take my loan, please
(May 15, 2000) Canadian policy-makers have a curious tendency to think hybrid public-private organizations offer the best of all possible worlds: the efficiency of the private sector and the financial muscle of government working smoothly to further the public interest.
Dominga and Denese, and the story of the village of Rio Negro
(May 11, 2000) After 18 years, Denese Becker — from Algona, Iowa — is going home … to Rio Negro, a small, isolated Mayan village in the department of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala.
Crown agency cloaks deals in secrecy
(May 9, 2000) While the EDC maintain its standard banking procedure not to disclose details of loans, a former bank regulator is calling for an independant review of the agency’s practises.
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