Exporting Destruction: Report Says EDC is Putting People and the Environment at Risk

By Asad Ismi The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous projects in the Third World, says a recent report. These are the Antamina mine in Peru, the Chamera I and II dams in India, the Profertil nitrogen fertilizer complex in Argentina, the Bulyanhulu mine in Tanzania, the Urra […]

1. Reckless Lending

Volume II How Canada’s Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk BY THE NGO WORKING GROUP ON THE EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A WORKING GROUP OF THE HALIFAX INITIATIVE COALITION, Ottawa, May 2001 This publication has been a collaborative research effort by: Asad Ismi and five other writers (see author list on page […]