Index for 2006

December 2006

  • ECGD related fraud investigation closed in the UK
  • OECD ECAs renege on agreement to promote OECD MNC Guidelines
  • Switzerland and Germany agree to guarantees for controversial Ilisu Dam project
  • Record levels of business for export credit agencies in 2005
  • Exxon, Recipient of Worst EU Lobbying Award, receives Billions in ECA subsidies
  • IRN presents ECAs and the Environment paper to China Ex-Im President
  • Chinese ECAs and the Environment
  • Zambia copper mine secures $583,8m loan
  • Ence Finds New Site for Proposed ECA financed Uruguay Pulp Mill
  • US Congress bolsters export credit agency's small business efforts
  • Halifax Initiative Canadian Mining Map Poster Highlights Destructive Mines

November 2006

  • Belgian ECA concerned about reputational risk over Sakhalin II cover
  • Norway makes ground-breaking decision to cancel illegitimate ECA debt
  • Flying Low: The UK Export Credit Guarantee Department and Climate Change
  • OECD’s Gurría welcomes Stern Review into consequences of climate change
  • OECD negotiations on export credit environment standards break down
  • Russia wants to help Indonesia build first nuclear power plant
  • Russia says damages in Shell Sakhalin II project could amount to US$15 billion
  • In the light of the recent Stern report, can carbon offsetting really work?
  • International Rivers Network action guide for communities affected by dams
  • French court stops Goro Nickel construction

October 2006

  • OECD Export Credit Updates
  • Ilisu Dam update
  • Yusufeli Dam going ahead?
  • Belgian ECA's private insurance subsidiary questioned in European Parliament
  • Vietnam and Philippine Airlines expand fleets with ECA support
  • Russian arms exports and export credits
  • Chinese export credits and environmental impacts
  • African Trade Insurance Agency
  • AFRODAD workshop on ECAs and African debt in Cameroon
  • Rheebu Nuu files injunction in Paris to halt Goro Nickel construction
  • ECAs fund coal fired power in Botswana / South Africa
  • European Commission investigates French nuclear export credits

September 2006

  • ENCE announces withdrawal from ECA supported papermill investment in Uruguay
  • Armaris bids for four Bulgarian corvettes with Coface support
  • Flawed OECD reporting and analysis of HIPC transactions
  • Ex-Im increases subsidies for large aircraft
  • G7 to discourage China from expensive export debt
  • Swedish Export Credit Corp. sells $1 billion in five-year global notes
  • EBRD urged by WWF to not fund controversial Sakhalin project
  • Armenians welcome US Senate move to block Ex-Im subsidy for railroad bypass
  • Three European ECAs set to support Ilisu dam despite obvious failure to meet standards

August 2006

  • OECD Common Approaches Review Update
  • Atradius signs consulting agreement with Chinese ECA
  • Russia repays US$22 billion in ECA debt
  • New sensitive Category A projects announced by ECAs
  • Moscow puts legal pressure on Shell to halt Sakhalin pipeline
  • Turkish dam controversy tests government
  • Swedish SEK Lending is Reaching New Records
  • UK Serious Fraud Office investigates murky Nigerian oil deal with ECA support
  • OECD publishes latest Common Approaches procedures questionnaire results
  • Export-Import Bank of China to Offer Loans to Taiwanese Businesses
  • BP Alaska: What lessons for the Common Approaches?

July 2006

  • With easy nickel fading fast, INCO goes after the tough stuff at Goro Nickel
  • Changing markets for export credit agencies: China, private sector ECAs
  • Iran amongst the best UK export credit clients
  • Export Credit Agencies and Human Rights
  • Japan publishes complete projects list (Categories A, B and C)
  • Farnborough air show - 30% of sales ECA financed
  • ECAs and arms
  • BTC Pipeline Opens
  • First renewables loan for US Ex-Im
  • Atradius swaps Indonesia coverage for Viet Nam with Denmark's EKF

June 2006

  • G8 Warns Against Luring Poor States Into Debt Trap
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  • ECAs and the Arms Trade
  • Indonesia buys Polish Skytrucks with export credit
  • China's controversial ECA backed Three Gorges dam comes onstream
  • Kanaks & environmentalists call for end to support for Goro Nickel in New Caledonia
  • Australia: Big brother, deputy sheriff or responsible neighbour?
  • ECA supported Bulgarian 670MW power plant project kicks off after 7-yr delay
  • US tapping export credit "war chest"
  • At 50, Is the Paris Club a Colonial Relic?
  • European Commission hosts ECA conference

May 2006

  • Civil society presses OECD on Common Approaches to the Environment
  • India looks to JIBC for lower monitoring requirements than World Bank
  • Ilusu dam update
  • Index of back issues - August 2005 - April 2006
  • Pulp Friction: Increasingly bitter dispute over pulp mills on Uruguay River
  • BTC pipeline terrorist alert
  • Sakhalin - Shell falsifies monitoring reports
  • Disagreements still remain on agricultural export credit competition
  • IFC Performance Standards: One Step Forward, One Step Back
  • Legal Obligations of ECAs With Respect to Human Rights
  • OECD approves new Action Statement on Bribery and Official Export Credits

April 2006

  • OECD publishes ECA statistical summary to 2004 [PDF]
  • JIBC publishes list of new category A, B and C projects
  • Merowe Dam displaced people's meeting attacked - three killed
  • Export Development Canada projects growing ECA competition for export sales
  • Sinosure to outfinance US Ex-Im Bank by 10 times by 2010
  • Nigeria gives China oil rights in exchange for investment and export credits
  • Finnvera to reappraise role in controversial pulp mill in Uruguay
  • NGO report on Sakhalin finds unwarranted & uncontainable reputational risks [PDF]
  • Chinese ECA to fund Mozambique dam which will exacerbate poverty, livelihoods
  • NGOs accuse EU countries of inflating aid figures with ECA debt cancellation [PDF]

March 2006

  • ECGD approves new/old anti-corruption policies
  • ECA Watch compares anti-bribery proposals (PDF)
  • Dam project brings Laos cash and controversy
  • IFC Standards approved
  • International experts intensify critique of Ilisu dam while regional resistance grows
  • Sinosure and Chinese export credits
  • Uruguayan pulp and paper complex faces legal battle and diplomatic pressures
  • U.S. Aerospace Industries back Ex-Im Bank charter extension
  • French ECA Coface expands it's international business
  • Berne Union members support 10% of US$10 Trillion in world trade in 2005 (PDF)
  • Italy's SACE lends to Vietnamese diesel plant
  • India establishes new export credit fund

February 2006

  • Update on negotiations for a new OECD Action Statement on Bribery & ECAs
  • Mexican coal fired power plant receives Japanese ECA support
  • Finnvera underwrites construction of world's largest cruise ship
  • Turkish Eximbank plans US$8.6 billion in loans and guarantees this year
  • Hermes forced to reveal greenhouse gas impacts
  • Ilisu EIA released - NGOs show new design to be seriously flawed (PDF)
  • Atradius-DSB refuses support for Setusamudram Shipping Channel Project (India)
  • Atradius-DSB Business is Booming
  • Consultants Warn Banks of Sakhalin II Environment Risks
  • Human rights and ECAs: the Uruguayan paper mills case (PDF)

January 2006

  • Common Approaches to the Environment & ECAs under Review in 2006
  • Peaceful Protest Disrupts Sakhalin II LNG Plant
  • Dutch Protests Threaten ECA-Supported Sale of Indonesian Navy Corvettes
  • Coface Lends US$100m to India for Dam
  • Japanese ECAs to be Restructured
  • World Bank Cuts Off Loans to Chad Over Abrogation of Pipeline Revenue Agreement
  • Russian Arms Exports and Export Credits
  • Garuda Faces ECA Creditors
  • EDC Reposesses Planes
  • Inuit Sue US Ex-Im Bank Over Greenhouse Gas Impacts
  • Sustainable Finance: Moving the Banking Sector from Promises to Performance
  • Mauritania oil consortium bypasses ECAs