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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
2005/05/02
May 16, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch)—The OECD Working Group on Export Credits (ECG), meeting in Paris April 21-22, has agreed to strengthen its 2000 Action... more
2005/05/01
May 13, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — Prior to the April meetings at the OECD, NGOs offered support for subsidies covering truly new renewable energy projects, but rejected the inclusion of large hydro dams in this category because of the massive and irreversible social and environmental damages they... more
2005/04/12
April 26, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — Having won its WTO challenge to US cotton export subsidies, Brazil is now questioning the basic fairness of the OECD... more
2005/04/11
April 5, 2005 (Inter Press Service) — After 12 years of studies and deliberations, the World Bank has approved funding for the USD 1.25B Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric dam project. Many analysts, however, say the World Bank is ignoring its own policy guidelines and paying little regard to indigenous... more
2005/04/10
March 31, 2005 (Source: Finnish ECA Reform Campaign) — The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that the Finnish ECA Finnvera must reveal environmental information about certain projects— information that was requested by the Finnish ECA Reform Campaign in February 2002.
ECAs: Finnvera
2005/04/09
March 27, 2005 (The Observer, UK, via Ecofinancas) — BP is facing renewed criticism of its involvement in the BTC pipeline after campaigners made fresh claims of human rights abuses relating to the controversial project. The pipeline has been dogged by claims of environmental damage and heavy-... more
2005/04/08
April 17, 2005 (The Sunday Times, UK) — British Petroleum faces accusations in court from pipeline contractors that it covered up a safety flaw, which if uncorrected could cause an environmental disaster in the Caspian region. BP is the leading shareholder and operator of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (... more
2005/04/07
April 5, 2005 (Financial Times, UK) — An MP inquiry has attacked the government for ceding to industry pressure by agreeing to an "unacceptable" weakening of anti-bribery rules. Ministers were yesterday criticised by the Commons trade and industry committee for sanctioning changes to the anti-... more
2005/04/06
April 12, 2005 (Financial Times, UK)—According to a recent editorial in the Financial Times (FT), governments that lend money for commercial purposes, such as with export credits, should expect to be treated more like commercial entities. However, debt relief granted to Iraq, among other nations,... more