EDC Compliance Officer (3) Re: Cernavoda - September 16, 2003
September 16, 200
Letter to Prime Minister Harper Re: Formally adopting and implementing full set of recommendations from recent Canadian CSR roundtable process - June 22, 2007
June 22, 2007
The Right Hon. Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
312S Centre Block
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
RE: Formally adopting and implementing full set of recommendations from recent Canadian CSR roundtable process.
Dear Prime Minister:
The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) commends the Canadian government for addressing the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) during the G8 summit in early June. The CNCA is encouraged that particular emphasis was placed on the operations of mining, oil and gas companies.
Press Release - Monday, February 9, 2004
High Level World Bank Review calls for the phase out of World Bank involvement in oil exploitation and coal mining
Bank Management to ignore recommendations says leaked report
(Ottawa) February 9th, 2004 -- Conforming to industry’s desires, the World Bank management is pushing to have its Board of Directors reject the recommendations of an independent review of its performance in the oil, coal, and mining sectors, according to a leaked report. The World Bank’s Management Response to the Extractive Industries Review (EIR) was leaked last week.
Press Responses : October 11, 2002
Wall Street Journal (10/11)
World Bank Chief Blocks Romanian Gold-Mine Loan
By Neil King Jr.
Press Responses: November 22, 2006
Mining Firms, Fearful of Prosecution, Taking Social Responsibility More Seriously
CNCA Statement on the Advisory Roundtable Report - Monday, April 2, 2007
The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) commends the Government of Canada for its ground-breaking consultation on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian extractive industry in developing countries. The process, which was led by a federal government Steering Committee, is an important step forward.
Letter to Trade Minister Re: Kidnapping - May 9, 2002
May 9, 2002
The Honourable Pierre Pettigrew
Minister for International Trade
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Lester B. Pearson Building
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2
Dear Minister Pettigrew:
I am writing you today on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Export Development Canada to denounce the recent attempted kidnapping of indigenous community leader Sara Imilmaqui in Chile and demand EDC to withdraw its support of the Ralco dam project until the voice of the indigenous Mapuche people is heard.
Rebuttal to IFC response to NGO comments on BTC pipeline (November 2003)
Letter to IFC which is a rebuttal to the IFC's dism
Chilean Communities and CSOs Urge U.S. Ex-Im Bank to Reject Pascua Lama
Fred P. Hochberg
President
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Washington, D.C.
[Via e-mail]
May 10, 2010
Re: Pascua Lama
Dear President Hochberg,
It has come to our attention that the Ex-Im Bank has received a request to finance the binational Pascua Lama mine. We are writing to strongly urge that the Ex-Im Bank reject financing for the Pascua Lama mine.
Press Release - August 22, 2005
Leaked Review Slams World Bank over Canadian Mine
August 22, 2005 - A leaked internal audit assessing the World Bank's involvement in a controversial Canadian gold mine in Guatemala has exposed glaring deficiencies in the due diligence undertaken by the Bank prior to approving a $45 million loan for the mine.
Glamis Gold's Marlin mine in the Western Highlands of Guatemala has been plagued with controversy since the outset. In March, the Compliance Advisory Ombudsman (CAO), the internal auditor for the Bank's private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), began an investigation after receiving local complaints about the mine.