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21 years 2 months ago. IFI policies and positions. ACTION ALERT
Support an effort to get the World Bank out of financing destructive oil, gas and mining projects.
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21 years 2 months ago. Government of Canada policies and positions. Canada’s position on Third World debt Read more ...
21 years 2 months ago. . September 16, 2003 Read more ...
21 years 2 months ago. . ECA-WATCH PRESS RELEASE
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21 years 2 months ago. . A. Ian Gillespie
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21 years 2 months ago. Corporate accountability, IFI accountability. Canadian Business Journal
BY MATTHEW McCLEARN
COVER DATE: Sept. 2, 2003
Many Canadians cannot point to Lesotho on a map. Some have never heard of it. In the cruel calculus of world politics, business, trade and finance, it is almost completely irrelevant. And yet, this tiny nation landlocked by South Africa must loom large on the minds of executives at Acres International Ltd., an engineering consulting firm based in Oakville, Ont. Its legal representatives are now in the capital, Maseru, for what could be the endgame of the most important battle in the company's 79-year history.
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21 years 2 months ago. . The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)
September 2, 2003 Tuesday Final Edition
By Michelle Lalonde
HEADLINE:
Noranda puts off aluminum smelter in Chile's Patagonia region: Company cites economic factors but environmentalists claim victory
Noranda Inc. has put on ice a proposed aluminum smelter in the pristine Patagonia region of Chile, blaming a lack of investors and a prolonged downturn in world aluminum markets.
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21 years 2 months ago. Human rights. Click here for pdf
Significantly destructive projects that violate host country law, international environmental standards and international human rights and labor laws continue to be considered and supported by ECAs. "Race to the Bottom, Take II: An Assessment of Sustainable Development Achievements of ECA-Supported Projects Two Years After OECD Common Approaches Rev 6" presents a civil society proposal for reforming the OECD Common Approaches on Environment and supports the proposal with nine case studies of ECA-backed projects from all over the world.
The projects include the Aracruz Pulp and Paper Factory in Brazil, the BTC pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, the Bujagili dam in Uganda, the Camisea oil and gas project in Peru, the Cernavoda 2 Nuclear Reactor in Romania, the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the Russian Far East, the Sepon Gold and Copper mine in Lao, the Tehri dam in India.
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21 years 3 months ago. . August 25, 2003
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21 years 3 months ago. Corporate accountability, IFI accountability. James Wolfensohn
President
World Bank
1818H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
USA
August 21, 2003
Dear Mr. Wolfensohn,
The fight against corruption is a central part of the World Bank mission to reduce poverty and improve the quality of people's lives.
The World Bank response to the loss of Acres International's appeal in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project of Friday, August 15th, 2003, will be indicative of how the World Bank approaches the fight against corruption.
We urge you to debar Acres International from future Bank-financed contracts. We also ask that all existing World Bank contracts with Acres be subject to review to determine whether Acres bid was carried out in a legal manner.
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