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2005/06/06
May 16, 2005 (Harold Doan) — The Export-Import Bank of the United States is making efforts to enhance its environmental exports programs and emphasize renewable energy projects in its portfolio, according to Linda Conlin, a board member of the Bank.... more
2005/06/05
May 26, 2005 (Oil Online) — The ECA US Export Import Bank has approved a USD $39M loan guarantee to support the sale of US equipment to be installed on one of the world's largest oil production platforms off the coast of Brazil.
2005/06/04
June 15, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — An independent dam expert has raised concerns about lax standards for new and existing dams in a letter to the OECD. As environmental campaigners up efforts to convince ECAs to precondition hydro power project finance on compliance with the World Commission on... more
2005/06/03
The Sakhalin II project is seeking up to USD $5B from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) of the US, UK and Japan.
A. Gazprom... more
A. Gazprom... more
2005/06/02
The UK ECA, the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) is backing the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline with £60M public money.
A. New Reports Find BTC Unsafe
May 24, 2005 (Source: Friends of... more
A. New Reports Find BTC Unsafe
May 24, 2005 (Source: Friends of... more
2005/06/01
May 23, 2005 (Slate) — Environmentalists' suit against OPIC and the US Export-Import Bank advanced in April. A journalist examines the tactics of their litigation.
2005/05/11
May 16, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) —ECA Watch campaign participants have collected and analysed the OECD's ECA data for 2002: it is now available publicly in a format useful to campaigners. Read the ECA Watch... more
2005/05/10
May 16, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — In late April OECD Participants in the Arrangement on Export Credits agreed to extended repayment terms for renewable energy projects (see Item 1 above), but... more
2005/05/09
May 10, 2005 (Kurdish Media)— British energy giant BP has stated it has begun filling up the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline ahead of the project’s completion later this year. See above in this May What's New for more information on the BTC project.
2005/05/08
May 4, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — Amis de la Terre France, Proyecto Gato, and 56 other NGOs from 34 countries have asked the OECD to investigate non-compliance with OECD rules by the National Contact Point (NCP) of France which handled the Nam Theun 2 complaint by NGOs against Electricité de France... more
2005/05/07
May 13, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — Over 20 international water-rights groups, in addition to 18 ECA Watch campaign member groups, have signed a recent letter to the OECD, expressing grave concerns about the proposed extension of subsidies under the Arrangement on Export Credits for renewable energy... more
2005/05/06
May 4, 2005 (Financial Times) — At the early May OECD Forum in Paris, Sweden's minister for industry and trade told the body that the voluntary OECD guidelines for multinational corporations must be made more effective. Developed countries are coming under pressure to strengthen enforcement of... more
2005/05/05
April 29, 2005 (Kurdish Media)— More than fifty human rights and environmental groups from thirteen countries have launched a protest against the failure of the World Bank to rectify ongoing problems with the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. The groups outlined serious safety,... more
2005/05/04
The Sakhalin II project is seeking up to USD $5B from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) of the US, UK and Japan.
A. 33 NGOs... more
A. 33 NGOs... more
2005/05/03
March 29, 2005 (Source: Sierra Legal Defence Fund) — Canada's ECA Export Development Canada (EDC) continues to withhold key environmental information about the projects it supports, citing reasons of “commercial confidentiality”. "EDC's disclosure... more