Three Gorges project authority: a thief crying stop thief
October 05, 2007
Probe International Fellow Dai Qing comments on China's admission that the Three Gorges dam could cause environmental catastrophe. [Full story]
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'The Agenda' interviews Energy Probes Norm Rubin on environment and the Ontario election
October 03, 2007
Energy Probe's Norm Rubin was recently interviewed on 'The Agenda' interviews on environmental issues and the Ontario election [Full story]
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China warns of Three Gorges catastrophe while local officials plan second mass resettlement, tourism development
October 02, 2007
One week before Chinese officials warned of environmental 'catastrophe' from the Three Gorges dam, municipal officials announced plans to "safeguard" the environment and develop tourism in the Three Gorges reservoir area by moving another million people. [Full story]
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Grainne Ryder, Probe's Policy Director comments on Three Gorges admission
October 02, 2007
This week China warned that the Three Gorges dam could cause an environmental "catastrophe" unless action is taken. Just back from Beijing, Grainne Ryder, Probe's Policy Director comments on this extraordinary admission. [Full story]
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Up the Yangtze documentary premieres at Vancouver film festival
October 02, 2007
The Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle — provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream. [Full story]
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Three Gorges: China is warned of 'catastrophe'
September 27, 2007
For environmental activists such as the journalist Dai Qing, whose book Yangtze! Yangtze! earned her 10 months in a maximum security prison and the threat of the death sentence, the official admission that the Three Gorges dam is a potential environmental disaster was received with bitter irony. [Full story]
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China warns of 'catastrophe' from gigantic Dam
September 26, 2007
Chinese officials and experts have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has caused an array of ecological ills, including more frequent landslides and pollution, and if preventive measures are not taken, there could be an environmental "catastrophe". [Full story]
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Chinese Activists Champion Human Rights in Lead-Up to Beijing Olympics
August 16, 2007
Probe International Fellow Dai Qing, one of 40 prominent Chinese activists and writers, called on Chinese and world leaders last week asking them to respect human rights in the lead up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. [Full story]
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PRESS RELEASE: Belizeans seek court order forcing Canadian-owned power company to honour its environmental obligations
July 11, 2007
A Canadian-owned power company could be forced to stop work on its third dam on Belize’s Macal River – underway since earlier this year – if Belizean environmentalists can persuade the Supreme Court to uphold the law. [Full story]
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PRESS RELEASE: Belizeans seek court order forcing Canadian-owned power company to honour its environmental obligations
July 11, 2007
A Canadian-owned power company could be forced to stop work on its third dam on Belize’s Macal River – underway since earlier this year – if Belizean environmentalists can persuade the Supreme Court to uphold the law. [Full story]
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Auditors expose flaws in Three Gorges project management
July 06, 2007
Poor quality control and improper contract management has plagued construction of China’s Three Gorges dam, according to an official audit released last week. [Full story]
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Toxic algae in Vietnam’s second largest hydro reservoir linked to illnesses in downstream Cambodia
July 04, 2007
New reservoirs could produce toxic algae for 5 to 10 years. [Full story]
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Power, Progress and Impoverishment: Plantations, Hydropower, Ecological Change and Community Transformation in Hinboun District, Lao PDR
June 30, 2007
This report documents the contemporary ecological, social and economic transformations
occurring in one village in Lao PDR’s central Khammouane province under multiple
sources of development-induced displacement. [Full story]
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China’s Three Gorges Corporation vying to build world’s largest hydro project in Central Africa
June 22, 2007
China’s Three Gorges Corporation is vying to construct an even more ambitious hydro project in central Africa. Probe International's Grainne Ryder argues that building dependence on a single huge power source may benefit a few state power utilities but at the expense of rural Africans. [Full story]
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Graft fights back
May 09, 2007
World Bank staff are determined to oust Paul Wolfowitz, because his campaign against corruption threatens their overpaid jobs. [Full story]
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Predatory lending
May 04, 2007
The World Bank's credibility was in tatters well before Mr. Wolfowitz arrived in 2005. Indeed, Mr. Wolfowitz's anti-corruption campaign was intended to restore its credibility. The real scandal is the World Bank itself. [Full story]
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Carbon Boondoggles
April 26, 2007
Aid bureaucracies are the only winners when they repackage outdated development projects into supposed carbon savers. (Originally printed in the National Post) [Full story]
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Internal Attack
April 17, 2007
The only wonder is that it took so long for World Bank staff, faced with his campaign against corruption, to try to oust its new president. (Originally printed in the National Post) [Full story]
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Wolfowitz deflects questions about role in scandal
April 15, 2007
"Has he damaged the Bank's reputation as the Bank staff representative association suggested? Get real, I'd say," said Pat Adams of the Canadian anti-corruption watchdog Probe International. [Full story]
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Cross-debarment by MDBs could become routine
March 22, 2007
A decision by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could signal a change in business as usual for MDBs: multiple bank blacklistings for companies found guilty of fraud could become the new trend. [Full story]
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