Press Responses: December 12, 2003
U.S., Allies Set Environment Pact; Boon Is Seen to Overseas Business
By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Press Release - Monday, December 11, 2003
Group blasts weak OECD agreement on environment
Loopholes allow export credit support for harmful projects to continue.
Press Responses : December 11, 2003
World Bank mulls advice to end oil project funding
(Reuters - Dec 11)
WASHINGTON - The World Bank is considering how to respond to an
independent report that recommends the institution phase out investment in
oil projects by the end of 2008 because of environmental concerns, a bank
official said this week.
The Extractive Industry Review was commissioned by bank president James
Press Responses - December 2003
Africa: The struggle against privatization
by Paul Beaulieu
Press Responses : Monday, December 1, 2003
Rights award calls attention to the plight of abducted -There are more than 40,000 'disappeared' in more than 50 countries, the UN reports
By MARINA JIMENEZ
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..
Press Responses : Tuesday, November 11, 2003
The Cobwebs on Credit
World Press Review correspondent
Paris, France
Nov. 11, 2003
Press Release - Monday, November 10, 2003
European protests mount around Canadian gold-mine
Ottawa - Monday, November 10th, 2003, Today, in major cities across Europe, hundreds of people gathered outside Canadian embassies to protest Canadian Gabriel Resources proposed open cast gold mine in Rosia Montana, Romania.
The demonstrations took place in Budapest, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bratislava and Prague. In Bucharest, the protestors demanded that the Canadian Ambassador visit the site in the Apuseni Mountains to see the project's impacts for himself.
Monday, November 10, 2003
European protests mount around Canadian gold-mine
Ottawa -Â Monday, November 10th, 2003, Today, in major cities across Europe, hundreds of people gathered outside Canadian embassies to protest Canadian Gabriel Resources proposed open cast gold mine in Rosia Montana, Romania.
The demonstrations took place in Budapest, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bratislava and Prague. In Bucharest, the protestors demanded that the Canadian Ambassador visit the site in the Apuseni Mountains to see the project's impacts for himself.