The World Bank Extractive Industries Review: Update and Interim Assessment
April 23, 2003
The Extractive Industries Review (EIR) is an independent consultative process initiated by the World Bank Group (Bank) to consider the Banks future role in the oil, gas and mining industries. Friends of the Earth has been closely monitoring the EIR process since its inception. In November 2002, FoE released a Midterm Assessment of the EIR that described the most critical issues that had arisen during the first year of the Review, and assessed the key challenges that lay ahead in the coming year.
Bankwatch Mail 18
April 7, 2003
In this EBRD monothematic issue: EBRD Meeting in Tashkent: Incentive for Progress or Endorsement of Repression? * Would EBRD Money for Baku- Ceyhan Endorse Human Rights Violations? * Is the EBRD Planning to Export Chernobyl Type Aluminium? * Greenfields for Corporations – Toxic Legacy for Local Residents (NEMAK in the Czech Republic) * K2/R4 is Back on Stage * EBRD in the News * Active Bankwatchers
Bankwatch Mail 17
February 7, 2003
In this EIB monothematic issue: The EIB’s New Information Policy: Ask for Infromation-Test the Bank * Road to Ruin (EIB’s Loan for Bulgarian E-79 Road Construction) * Money for Nothing (Questions for the Benefits from the EU Phare Project in Bulgaria) * Did EIB Loans Tend to Ruin Regional Railways? (Slovakian Case) * Participation for Better Planning Documents? (National Development Plan for Latvia) * Not Too Late to Put Things Right (EIB Loan for Construction of Czech D-8 Highway) * The Balkan Stability Pact: What is it good for?
The Tkibuli Coal Power Station, Georgia
November 30, 2002
Background Information The Greens Movement of Georgia and FoE Georgia are in the process of planning a campaign against the construction of a new coal power station that is supposed to be built in Tkibuli, a city in western Georgia. This campaign is being conducted by CEE Bankwatch Network and the energy/climate change sections of Foe Georgia. Short History
Bankwatch Mail 16
November 7, 2002
In this issue dedicated to the conference Billions for Sustainability?: Conference Billions for Sustainability? * EIB Finances, Environment Pays the Price * A Fairy Tale for a Modern Airport * EU Transport Aid in the Czech Republic – Mixing Local and Brussels-Based Contradictions * Join Active Bankwatchers * EBRD Invites Public Comments * World Bank Rejects Controversial Gold Mine Project
Bankwatch Mail 15
September 7, 2002
In this World Bank issue: World Bank Issue: Theatre or Consultation? (World Bank Extractive Industry Review) * Romania’s Resource Rebels (IFC Gold Mining Project in Romania) * CAS: Real Consultations Are Needed; Oil Funds “Should” Fund Oil Companies??? (Azerbaijan subsidising IFC oil project on the cost of social fund) * Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline – Confusion, Uncertainty and Unrealistic Expectations
Bankwatch Mail 14
June 1, 2002
In this special issue on the World Bank Extractive Industry: Anniversary of Kumtor Accident Highlights Extractive Industry Problems * Why and How?
Bankwatch Mail 13
May 7, 2002
In this issue dedicated to the EBRD AGM – projects, policies: An Inspection Mechanism for the EBRD? *”We see none of the money; none today and none tomorrow” – EBRD financing in the Caspian * The voice of nature has been heard! EP Environmental. Committee opinion on Kresna Gorge * You know, investors like greenfields.
Declaration of Civil Society and Indigenous Participants of the Regional Workshop of the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 16-19, 2002
April 19, 2002
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – April 16-19, 2002 We, the undersigned, would like to express our comments about the Latin American Regional Workshop of the Extractive Industries Review, and to highlight several important issues about the Review, keeping always within an analysis of whether or not the extractive industries have contributed to poverty alleviation in our countries. Limited focus and unequal participation and information
Bankwatch Mail 12
April 7, 2002
In this issue: EIB: Join the EIB: NO REFORM – NO MONEY Campaign!, Why the EIB must be reformed * EIB Funding for Enron * Kozloduy Decommissioning Fund * Are the EU and the EIB making a habit of building highways through Biodiversity sites?
