World Bank

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

Comments on the OECD 2003 Common Approaches, Rev. 2 - November 20, 2003

November 20, 2003

Mr. A. Ian Gillespie
President and CEO
Export Development Canada
151 O’Connor Street,
Ottawa, ON K1A 1K3

The Hon. Pierre Pettigrew
Minister of International Trade
Department of Foreign Affairs
125 Sussex Drive, Tower B, 5th Floor
Ottawa, ON   K1A 0G2

Dear Minister Pettigrew and Mr. Gillespie,

Thank you for forwarding me Rev. 2 of the OECD “Common Approaches on Environment and Officially Support Export Credits 2003.”

World Bank considers project in violation of WB policies Re: Environmental Impact Assessment

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline project is likely to go to the World Bank Board of Directors on October 30, 2003. A review of the Environmental Impact Assessment shows it in violation of almost all of World Bank policies.

Letter to Marcel Masse, Canadian Executive Director of the World Bank Group

Executive Summary of the Environmental Impact Assessment

Event: Cross Canada tour on privatization, October 2003

For Sale?? Privatization of Essential Services Tour The “Private Interests vs. Public Goods” tour aims to bring Southern activists working on privatization issues at the local or national level to share their stories and strategies with Canadians facing the privatization of health care, education, energy, water and other public services.

Get a copy of "Empty Promises - The IMF, the World Bank, and the Planned Failures of Global Capitalism", which includes over 30 brief articles detailing everything you wanted to know about these two institutions.

 For press articles resulting from the tour go to the Media button on the navigation bar, to Press Responses to Structural Adjustment.

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