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Cyanide devastated Guyana’s main waterway, thanks to a project supported by...
(August 21, 1995) The disaster in Guyana began in the early morning hours of Saturday August 19: at a Canadian-owned gold mine, a red, poisonous sludge erupted through a breach in an earthen dam which...
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Export Development Corporation needs to strengthen its environmental...
(May 15, 2001) Auditor General of Canada says that EDC needs to address gaps in its environmental review process and to be more open with the public, particularly concerning environmentally risky...
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Reckless Lending: How Canada’s Export Development Corporation Puts People and...
(May 15, 2001) The Senegal River Basin Development Project, a US$1-billion dam project, completed in 1988, has already brought economic ruin, malnutrition, and disease to hundreds of thousands of West...
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EDC projects fail environmental audit: 24 of 26 cases not assessed properly...
(May 16, 2001) More than 90 per cent of Export Development Corporation projects examined in a scathing report by the auditor general were not properly assessed under the corporation's environmental...
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Romanian reactor’s faulty environmental assessment
(January 17, 2002) "This EA review is being conducted under a process with outrageous shortcomings . . ." Continue reading →
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PRESS RELEASE: Export Development Canada environmental assessment for...
(January 17, 2002) New legislation protects EDC from legal action. Continue reading →
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Immunity from scrutiny: Canada’s Access to Information Act hobbles democracy
(January 7, 2012) Canada’s Access to Information Act perversely gives Export Development Canada (EDC) the legal power to keep records of its operations secret, charges Probe International. In its...
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Press Release: Export Development Canada bound by no rules on the environment...
(February 13, 2013) EDC environmental decisions virtually immune from judicial review. Crown corporation sets standards and can exempt projects on its own say so. Continue reading →
View ArticleOttawa orders Export Development Canada to examine lending practices
Activists call the agency "essentially self-governing" in the areas of environment, human rights and anti-corruption.
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