Press Responses : Wednesday, June 18, 2003
CBC’s “The Current”
June 18, 2003
Damming Evidence: Canada and the World Commission on Dams
It's the most expensive construction project in the history of the human race, and one of the largest.
The Three Gorges dam project in China won't be finished until 2009, but this month it passed a symbolic landmark. Engineers closed the dam's sluice gates and for the first time the mighty Yangtze was blocked. The enormous reservoir behind the dam is now starting to fill with water.
Press Responses: March 28, 2007
Report seeks penalties against unethical Canadian mining operations abroad
OTTAWA (CP) _ Canadian mining and oil companies should have their government financing and other benefits withdrawn if they are found to have acted unethically or committed human rights violations while operating abroad, a government-led committee on corporate social responsibility says.
Civil Society Statement on Public Financing for Tenke Fungurume Project in Congo - July 11, 2007
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Letter to EDC President Re: Cernavoda 2 - July 11, 2002
July 11, 2002
Mr. Ian Gillespie
President
Export Development Canada
151 O’Connor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1K3
Dear Mr. Gillespie,
We are writing to urge you to refrain from extending support for the Cernavoda 2 nuclear reactor in Romania. There are key questions that remain outstanding on this project, questions that need to be answered before a public financial institution approves its support.
Question#1: Is Romania in violation of the Espoo Convention?
Joint CSO Statement on IFC and Human Rights
Press Release - October 18, 2005
Government fails to take action: Human rights and environmental abuses abroad go unchecked
Press Response - November 16, 2003
FINANCE: Groups Fear Canadian Funding for Romanian Mine
Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov 16 (IPS) - The World Bank's refusal to help fund a Canadian company's controversial development of a huge open pit gold mine in Romania has raised concerns the Canadian government will step in with money.
Last Monday hundreds of people gathered outside Canadian embassies in major European cities, including Budapest, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bratislava and Prague, to protest the 400-million-U.S.-dollar Rosia Montana gold mine in Romania. · Export Development Corporation· Romanian NGO Alburnus Maior· Gabriel Resources
''The Canadian government has to act to stop this mine. It will destroy the homes, churches and livelihoods of my people,” said Sorana Ciura, a member of Alburnus Maior, the Romanian group spearheading the protests, speaking at a news conference in Ottawa..