(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 26 September 2018) Ottawa has ordered the nation’s export credit agency to consider more carefully the human-rights implications of loans and insurance it offers in support of Canadian businesses....
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2018/09/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
2018/08/28
Country: Germany, Turkey, USA
Issue: Arms Trade, Corruption, Human Rights
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 28 August 2018) When President Trump...
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2018/07/28
Country: Netherlands, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Bank Track
(Tampa Bay Times, Bismark, 26 July 2018) A federal judge has ruled that the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline has no claim under federal racketeering law for damages against a Dutch environmental group that urged banks not to finance the $3.8 billion project. U.S. District Judge Billy...
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2018/06/30
Country: Iran, USA
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Nuclear
(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 6 JUne 2018) Senior European officials conceded in a letter to the Trump administration that their efforts to save the Iranian nuclear accord by maintaining major trade, investment and export credits with Tehran are buckling in the face of planned U.S....
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2018/03/31
Country: USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track
(WTOP, Washington, 30 March 2018) Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners in August sued Earth First, Greenpeace and BankTrack for up to $1 billion, alleging they disseminated false and misleading information about the $3.8 billion pipeline that’s now moving oil from North...
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2018/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Transparency
(Reuters, Kuwait, 13 February 018) The United States has urged members of the coalition fighting Islamic State to help rebuild Iraq or risk a reversal of the gains made against the group. Secretary of State Tillerson said the official U.S. export credit agency, the Export-Import Bank of the...
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2018/02/28
Country: USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track
(Associated Press, Bismark, 9 February 2018) Attorneys for a Florida-based environmental publication want a federal judge in North Dakota to sanction the Texas-based developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in a dispute over whether the publication can be sued. Earth First Journal maintains...
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2018/01/31
Country: Canada, Russia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
(Financial Post, Toronto, 11 January 2018) Canadian exporters with long histories of doing business in Russia are urging the federal government to help them compete with foreign rivals that they insist are profiting from Ottawa’s particularly rigid approach to international sanctions. Companies...
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2017/08/30
Country: USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track
(BankTrack, Nijmegen, 22 August 2017) BankTrack has taken note of the outrageous allegations in the lawsuit that ETP/ETE has filed against BankTrack, Greenpeace International, Greenpeace Inc., Greenpeace Fund, Inc., Earth First!, and other organizations and individuals that together opposed the...
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2017/07/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 21 September 2016) In 2015 Netsweeper Inc. of Waterloo Ontario, with support from Export Development Canada, sold Internet filtering technology to the government of Bahrain — a country criticized internationally for widespread suppression of human rights defenders...
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2017/06/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 14 June 2017) Our latest correspondence with Export Development Canada (EDC) about the impacts in Colombia of two oil...
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2017/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Guardian, Washington, 22 February 2017) Between 2007 and 2015, the U.S. Export-Import Bank provided $315m in 48 taxpayer-supported insurance policies to the New Jersey-headquartered Connell Company to pursue deals with at least 17 mining companies accused of slave labor, human rights...
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2017/02/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 15 February 2017) Last year an Ontario-based company, with support from Export Development Canada, sold Internet filtering technology to the government of Bahrain — a country criticized internationally for widespread suppression of human rights defenders through...
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2016/12/27
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Jubilee Australia
(wsws.org, Jacksonville, 19 December 2016) The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government announced on Friday that it will deploy military personnel to stop “violence” near the country’s biggest resources installation, the Exxon-Mobil Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project...The security and viability of...
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2016/05/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Human Rights
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 11 May 2016) The U.S. Export-Import Bank loves to remind us that it is not a development agency, and, therefore, is not held to the same requirements as say a development finance institution. Even still, some of the governments that the head of Ex...
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