CorpWatch Exclusives
 | BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon Explosion by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog March 2nd, 2013 BP, the UK oil company, went on trial this week for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The company could be fined up to $30 billion over the $25 billion it has promised if the court finds that it was "grossly negligent.” |
 | Tar Sands Activist Interrupts Texas Oil & Gas Conference by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog January 31st, 2013 A climate change activist locked himself to a projector screen at an oil and gas conference in Texas today interrupting a TransCanada executive who was making a presentation on a pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Instead 300 astonished attendees heard an impassioned presentation about TransCanada’s poor safety record. |
 | Chevron Sues Its Own Shareholders In Ecuador Compensation Battle by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog January 24th, 2013 U.S. oil giant Chevron’s latest move in an epic legal battle waged against indigenous Ecuadorian villagers involves serving legal papers on journalists, a New York state government official, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, a host of environmental groups, and even its own shareholders. |
 | Frackademia: How the Fracking Industry Tries To Bully Or Buy Scientists by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog January 18th, 2013 Range Resources, a Texas company, bullied the federal government into dropping a scientific report on environmental contamination caused by fracking, a new investigation has just revealed. This comes on the heels of two major pro-fracking academic reports that had to be withdrawn in 2012. |
 | Argentine Farm Sales Raise Questions of Land Speculation By Soros by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog January 15th, 2013 Hedge fund billionaire George Soros is making a killing buying and selling farmland in South America after converting them to biofuel production. While this has caused the land prices to increase dramatically, the ecological impact is questionable. |
 | Damming the Ngäbe: Aftermath of an AES Power Project in Panama by Jennifer Kennedy October 15th, 2012 Well over a year after AES Corporation, a U.S. based power company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, inundated the lands of the Ngäbe to build a hydroelectric dam in Panama, many in the community remains dispossessed. |
 | BP Wants To Blame Workers For Deepwater Horizon Spill, Says U.S. by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog September 27th, 2012 BP, the British oil company, is attempting to blame "blue collar workers" for the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, alleges the U.S. government. Federal lawyers say the company is trying to divert attention from management failures of "gross negligence." |
 | Monsanto Faces $7.5 Billion Payout to Brazilian Farmers by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, CorpWatch Blog June 28th, 2012 Monsanto, the largest seed corporation in the world, has long dealt out severe legal sanctions against farmers it suspects of "pirating" its seed. Now farmers in Brazil have turned the tables on the company which may have to pay out $7.5 billion. |
 | Renewable Energy Projects Generate Opposition in Puerto Rico by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, CorpWatch Blog April 8th, 2012 Puerto Rican citizen groups are protesting two renewable energy projects: a 30 megawatt solar energy project in Yabucoa by Western Wind Energy corporation from Vancouver and a 75 megawatt windmill array in Santa Isabel by Pattern Energy of San Francisco. The reason: these projects will threaten scarce farm land on the food dependent island. |
 | Emerald Energy Exploits Colombian Andes by Elias Cabrera, Special to CorpWatch March 18th, 2012 Emerald Energy, a UK company owned by Sinochem of China, is exploring for oil in the eastern Colombian Andes in the high altitude tropical mountain tundra ecosystem known as páramo. Local communities say that the company's underground explosions have caused landslides and ground collapses that have destroyed homes, crops and contaminated the local water supply. |
 | Green Deserts: The Palm Oil Conflict by Melody Kemp, Special to CorpWatch February 16th, 2012 Wilmar of Singapore, the world’s biggest global processor and merchandiser of palm oil, has come in for harsh criticism for the environmental and social impact of its Indonesian plantations. The allegations also raise serious questions about the role of WWF and the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil. |
 | Keystone Pipeline Faces Indigenous Trans-Border Opposition by Geoff Dembicki, Special to CorpWatch October 4th, 2011 TransCanada is seeking permission to build a 1,661-mile-long oil pipeline to carry crude from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Tribal leaders from both sides of the border have joined environmental activists to oppose the project. |
 | Burmese Crossroads: Oil & Gas Rush Stokes Civil War by Matthew F Smith, Special to CorpWatch July 26th, 2011 Chinese and South Korean companies are leading an investor rush to Burma to build lucrative cross-country pipelines to deliver Saudi oil and Burmese natural gas to China. Poor communities have been displaced and allegations of human rights abuses are rife in the pipeline's route. |
 | Toxic Pop: How Tar Sands Fuel Disposable Cans by Geoff Dembicki, Special to CorpWatch July 11th, 2011 One in six of the 100 billion soda, beer, and juice cans cracked open by North Americans each year owe their existence to an industrial product manufactured from Alberta’s tar sands. The result is an environmental disaster for Canada as well as a major contributor to global warming. |
 | Killing Clean Energy Laws by Geoff Dembicki, Special to CorpWatch May 5th, 2011 Tar sands from Alberta have enabled Canada to become the largest supplier of crude oil to the U.S. Tom Corcoran, a Washington lobbyist, is paid to promote this rapidly growing industry that produces some of the most emissions-heavy gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel on the planet. |
 | The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report by Antonia Juhasz, True Cost of Chevron May 25th, 2010 Chevron's 2009 Annual Report celebrates 130 years of Chevron operations. We, the communities and our allies who bear the consequences of Chevron's offshore drilling rigs, oil and natural gas production, coal fields, refineries, depots, pipelines, exploration, chemical plants, political control, consumer abuse, false promises, and much more, have a very different account to offer. |
 | ADM's New Frontiers: Palm Oil Deforestation and Child Labor
by Charlie Cray, Special to CorpWatch May 18th, 2010 ADM has moved beyond the days of blatant price-fixing that landed its top execs behind bars. But the company's forays into new global agricultural markets bring charges of complicity in forced child labor and rampant deforestation. Critics assert that the conglomerate's embrace of self- regulation and voluntary guidelines is but a cynical ploy to deter effective reform. |
 | BP: Beyond Petroleum or Beyond Preposterous? (2000) by Kenny Bruno May 12th, 2010 In 2000 British Petroleum launched an expensive ad campaign, re-branding its corporate image into the eco-friendly "BP: Beyond Petroleum.” We said it then. When a company spends more on advertising its environmental friendliness than on environmental actions, that's greenwash. Three long weeks into the BP oil disaster roiling the Gulf of Mexico, CorpWatch's December 2000 skewering of its new image sadly, bears repeating. |
 | Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal by Moushumi Basu, Special to CorpWatch March 2nd, 2010 In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. “We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don't want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back.” |
 | The Enbridge Oil Sands Gamble by Andrew Nikiforuk, Special to CorpWatch December 14th, 2009 Patrick Daniel, the CEO of Enbridge Inc, is bullish about the future of unconventional oil from Canada’s massive tar sand deposits. His company not only operates North America’s longest crude oil and liquid pipelines, but transports 12 percent of the oil that the U.S. imports daily. Canada’s bitumen, or dirty crude, lies under a forest area the size of England and is arguably the world’s last remaining giant oil field. |
 | Bhopal: Generations of Poison by Nityanand Jayaraman, Special to CorpWatch December 2nd, 2009 On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl iso cyanate into its densely populated neighborhood, killing 8,000 people in the immediate aftermath. 25 years later, Dow Chemical (which purchased Union Carbide in 2001) still refuses to clean up the site. But a new generation of Bhopal survivors is taking on the fight. |
 | Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands by Moushumi Basu, Special to CorpWatch October 7th, 2009 In Eastern India's Jharkand State, tensions are mounting between Indigenous tribal communities and the Uranium Corporation of India Limited, or UCIL. Heavy security at a May public hearing in Jadugoda prevented many local activists and villagers from entering. But outside the hearing, activists from the Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation (JOAR) argued their case for protecting their health and the environment from horrific impacts of radioactive contaminated waste resulting from uranium mining. |
 | Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities by Jonathan Luna, Special to CorpWatch July 21st, 2009 Near the town of La Jagua, overlooking the Magdalena River, the landscape is dotted with concrete markers declaring the land, river, and everything else a “public utility” that Colombia has given to the energy company Emgesa as part of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project. A construction permit was granted in May, with the dam scheduled for full operation by 2014. |
 | The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report by Antonia Juhasz, http://www.TrueCostofChevron.com/ May 26th, 2009 Chevron's 2008 annual report is a glossy celebration of the company's most profitable year in its history. What Chevron's annual report does not tell its shareholders is the true cost paid for those financial returns, or the global movement gaining voice and strength against the company's abuses. This jointly-produced report documents negative impacts of Chevron's operations around the globe, in stark contrast to the message sent by the company's ubiquitous "Human Energy" advertising campaign. |
 | Goa Cursed By Its Mineral Wealth by Emily Bild, Special to CorpWatch April 23rd, 2009 Set on India's west coast, Goa is renowned as a beach paradise popular with Indian and foreign tourists alike. Just a few miles inland from the quaint restaurants and the pristine waves lapping the silver shores of India's smallest state, iron-ore mining is destroying the environment, say activists and locals. |
 | Xstrata Dreaming: The Struggle of Aboriginal Australians against a Swiss Mining Giant by Michael Deibert, Special to CorpWatch February 16th, 2009 The McArthur River winds through Australia’s remote Northern Territory, home to four main Aboriginal linguistic groups: the Gurdanji, Yanyuwa, Garawa and Mara. Earlier this month Australian Minister for Environment Peter Garrett announced conditional approval for a bid by Swiss mining giant Xstrata to expand its zinc mining operations in the sacred McArthur River floodplain. |
 | Norilsk Nickel: A Tale of Unbridled Capitalism, Russian Style by Anton Foek, Special to CorpWatch October 9th, 2008 The launch of Russia’s stock markets in the early 90s and privatization of state assets has profoundly impacted Russian society. As the case of mining giant Norilsk Nickel illustrates, this experiment has given rise to both immense personal wealth for a new elite, and economic uncertainty for the ordinary citizen. |
 | Ducking Responsibility: Entergy Spins Its Nukes by Shay Totten, Special to CorpWatch August 4th, 2008 Entergy Nuclear (part of the broader Entergy energy family) is spinning off its northeastern U.S.-based nuclear power plants into a related limited liability corporation, Enexus. Stakeholders in Vermont, home of the Yankee Nuclear power plant, are less than happy, with Entergy also reneging on prior commitments to cover eventual plant decommissioning costs, potentially stranding taxpayers with much of the bill. |
 | Dark Side of the Tourist Boom: Cruise Ship Controversies Cross Borders by Kent Paterson, Special to CorpWatch July 9th, 2008 The Mexican Pacific resort of Zihuatanejo recently cancelled a major new cruise ship terminal, giving a victory to environmental activists and other opponents. However, Mexico remains the world’s Number One cruise ship destination; and with little regulation, allegations of onboard crime, and increasing militarization as regards security while ships are in port, the rapidly expanding industry is facing new challenges. |
 | A Glittering Demon: Mining, Poverty and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Michael Deibert, Special to CorpWatch June 26th, 2008 In the DRC, a nation rich in natural resources yet confounded by civil war and endemic poverty, artisanal mining communities are struggling for their livelihoods as foreign multinationals like AngloGold Ashanti rush to cash in. |
 | Crossing the Wayúu: Pipeline Divides Indigenous Lands in South America by Jonathan Luna , Special to CorpWatch June 5th, 2008 Touted as the first step in a major regional integration project, the 225-kilometer TransCaribe pipeline travels underground across Colombia's Guajira Peninsula to the gas refineries of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Protesting the mega project's impacts on the peninsula's indigenous communities, the Wayúu community of Mashiis-Manaa is leading the struggle against oil giant Petróleos de Venezuela. |
 | Suing the Smelter: Oklahoma Town Takes on Freeport by Eliza Strickland, Special to CorpWatch May 15th, 2008 Residents of the town of Blackwell, Oklahoma have brought a class action lawsuit against mining giant Freeport McMoRan. The plaintiffs say that the company's zinc smelter, which closed in 1974, left a toxic legacy in the town, including contaminated sand from the smelter that was given away for free. |
 | Booming Chinese Demand Has Ripples Down Under In Queensland by Patrick O'Keeffe, Special to CorpWatch April 16th, 2008 A bauxite mine and a proposed refinery in northern Queensland, Australia, to be developed by a Chinese mineral company, has divided local and traditional landowners. Part of a major industrialization scheme, it has also sparked worries among environmentalists. |
 | Smokestack Injustice? Toxic Texas Smelter May Reopen by Kent Paterson, Special to CorpWatch April 2nd, 2008 The old American Smelting and Refining Company (Asarco) copper smelter in El Paso, Texas, which has spewed out toxins for over a century, has been granted a new five-year permit. This is despite the fact that it violates international laws by polluting communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. |
 | Ecuador's Yasuni Park: Oil Exploration or Nature Protection? by Agneta Enström, Special to CorpWatch March 20th, 2008 Permission for Petrobras of Brazil to drill for oil in Yasuni National Park, one of the most biologically diverse places in the world, has been suspended, but some damage has already been done by Swedish construction giant Skanska. Unless new money is found to protect the forest, exploration may resume. |
 | Bulgarian Ski Complex Threatens Rila National Park by Katherine Chandler, Special to CorpWatch January 4th, 2008 A new ski complex is being constructed in the environmentally sensitive Seven Lakes region of the snow-capped Rila mountains of south-western Bulgaria. Yet authorities have not been able to produce any planning permits nor have the investors produced any documentation of who is funding the construction. |
 | Climate Change Debate Fuels Greenwash Boom by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch December 11th, 2007 On the Indonesian island of Bali, thousands of senior government officials are negotiating a plan to slow global warming. The coal, gas and oil companies that are major producers of greenhouse gases are finally taking notice of these high-level political discussions, and many have mounted spirited public relations exercises to defend themselves. |
 | Titanium or Water? Trouble brews in Southern India by Nityanand Jayaraman, Special to CorpWatch October 24th, 2007 Tata, India's largest conglomerate, wants to take 10,000 acres of land to mine ilmenite in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The plan has sparked protests by local villagers who say the project will destroy their traditional way of life and the environment. |
 | Mud and the Minister: A Tale of Woe in Java by Anton Foek, Special to CorpWatch July 20th, 2007 Over a year after a torrent of liquid mud at an Indonesian oil exploration site inundated four villages, killing almost 100 people, the local community is still awaiting clean-up and proper compensation. This is despite the fact that the drilling company is owned by the family of a senior Indonesian minister. |
 | Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Respond to Gold Mining's Impacts Worldwide May 1st, 2007 A new CorpWatch report details the operations of Barrick Gold in nine different countries, focusing on the efforts on the part of the communities to seek justice from this powerful multinational. Download Spanish version of report |
 | Speaking Diné to Dirty Power: Navajo Challenge New Coal-Fired Plant by Jeff Conant, Special to CorpWatch April 3rd, 2007 A small, but growing, group of Diné indigenous peoples in New Mexico are protesting against a planned new huge coal-fired power plant. This is one of 150 similar plants scheduled to supply an anticipated boom in energy demand in the U.S. |
 | Barrick Gold Mine Transforms Pacific Island by David Martinez, Special to CorpWatch February 21st, 2007 Papua New Guinea, one of the world's largest islands, has fortunes in gold under its lush green mountains and a diversity of indigenous culture. The arrival of a Canadian mining company has brought violent clashes and transformed the indigenous lands forever. Listen to an interview with the author, David Martinez. |
 | Smelter Struggle: Trinidad Fishing Community Fights Aluminum Project by Sujatha Fernandes, Special to CorpWatch September 6th, 2006 Fishing communities in the Caribbean island of Trinidad are protesting a $US1.5 billion aluminum smelter that will process raw material from Brazil, Jamaica and Surinam. Cedros Peninsula United, a local organization, says that the factory uses technology that has had serious environmental impacts in countries from China to Iceland and the U.S. |
 | A Proxy Battle: Shareholders vs. CEOs by Kevin Kelleher, Special to CorpWatch June 13th, 2006 Earnest shareholder resolutions presented at company annual general meetings on everything from human rights to executive compensation are routinely shot down in flames. But shareholder resolutions may have an effect, even in defeat. |
 | Green Fuel's Dirty Secret by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch June 1st, 2006 Ethanol made from corn has been touted as the "green fuel" of the future. Archer Daniels Midland, the largest U.S. producer of ethanol, stands to make a fortune from environmentally conscious car drivers. But is ethanol really as environmentally clean as it is hyped to be? Listen to an interview with Sasha Lilley on CorpWatch Radio. |
 | Stolen for Steel: Tata Takes Tribal Lands in India by Nityanand Jayaraman, Special to CorpWatch May 24th, 2006 The Tata Group, one of India's biggest and oldest multinationals, has taken over tribal land to build an enormous steel plant in Orissa. A clash between the traditional owners of the land and the police has resulted in numerous injuries and deaths, calling into the question the prestigious family-owned company's philanthropic image. |
 | Uruguay: Pulp Factions: Uruguay’s Environmentalists v. Big Paper by Raúl Pierri, Special to CorpWatch January 16th, 2006 Massive monoculture plantations have begun a cascade of changes to Uruguay’s economy, environment and culture. Now, the foreign corporations that grow the trees are escalating the process by building massive pulp mills that threatening lives and livelihoods. |
 | Vedanta Undermines Indian Communities by Nityanand Jayaraman, Special to Corpwatch November 15th, 2005 Vedanta, a fast growing British mining and aluminium production company founded by a billionaire expatriate Bombay businessman, threatens communities in India with environmental degradation and widespread pollution. |
 | Hurricane Katrina and Climate Justice by Joshua Karliner, Special to CorpWatch September 12th, 2005 For nearly five years George Bush has infuriated much of the world by refusing to take action on global warming. Instead, he has called for more study. In a way, he got what he wanted with Hurricane Katrina. |
 | Barrick Gold Strikes Opposition in South America by Glenn Walker, Special to CorpWatch June 20th, 2005 A proposal to "relocate" three Andean glaciers to mine for gold has local people up in arms. This billion dollar development could destroy a major source of clean water on the border of Argentina and Chile. |
 | The Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline: BP’s Time Bomb by Hannah Ellis, Special to CorpWatch June 2nd, 2005 With their newly opened pipeline, British Petroleum (BP) is cutting a path of environmental and social irresponsibility from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. |
 | 'Tis the Season for Shareholder Activism by Jan Frel, Special to CorpWatch May 4th, 2005 Every spring, activists and investors attend annual general meetings to protest and meet face-to-face with CEOs and corporate boards. The goal is to place their agendas -- on everything from the environment to labor practices -- front and center. |
| BlueLinx Buys Illegal Indonesian Timber by Steve Slattery, Special to CorpWatch March 14th, 2005 JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx linked to illegal logging of endangered Indonesia forests. |
 | Fighting the Big Gunns in Tasmania by Tom Price, Special to CorpWatch March 14th, 2005 The war between the world's largest woodchip exporter, Gunns Limited, and the Australian conservation community has been raging for decades. But the company's recent efforts to silence Tasmanian activists through lawsuits could earn them millions and set a very dangerous precedent. ALSO: BlueLinx Buys Illegal Indonesian Timber |
 | Carbon: Under Kyoto, a Hot Commodity by Daphne Wysham, Special to CorpWatch February 18th, 2005 Are World Bank-funded efforts to compensate for corporate emissions sustainable? Or will they affect poor communities disproportionately? |
| The Carbon Brokers by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch February 18th, 2005 Traders are gearing up for a new futures market. These new carbon exchanges promise billions in potential profit, but will they save the planet? |
 | Exporting Cures, Importing Misery by By Stan Cox, AlterNet January 19th, 2005 The Kazipally industrial area – once good farm country – now accounts for more than one-third of India's pharmaceutical industry, meaning skyrocketing rates of cancer, heart disease and birth defects for its residents. |
 | Paving the Amazon with Soy
by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch December 16th, 2004 Soy rules the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso and it's not the soy that much of the world associates with the ostensibly eco-friendly, vegetarian diet, either. With help from the World Bank, André Maggi (the Soy King) is bankrolling the destruction of one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems: the savanna. |
 | Clouds on the Organic Horizon by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch November 25th, 2004 Until a decade ago, organic foods were available only through tiny farmers markets, health and natural food stores, but today their growing popularity means that more organic food is now sold by chain stores like Whole Foods. Often, the food itself is grown on corporate-owned farms, no longer synonymous with small farms, rural communities, social justice and humane treatment of animals. |
 | Landmine of a Decision by Michael McCrystal, Special to CorpWatch May 28th, 2004 Much is at stake for the people, economy, and environment of Namibia, where Rossing Uranium is deciding between ceasing operations or spending $100 million on a 20-year expansion of one of the world's largest mines. |
 | The Smell of Money: British Columbia's Gas Rush by Shefa Siegel, Special to CorpWatch March 13th, 2004 In Canada's British Columbia, ExxonMobil, Talisman, Shell, and other energy giants are racing to tap the region's "sour gas". But the potential toxicity of the gas is being ignored. |
 | ASIA: Storm Over Asian-Pacific Timber Trade by Yoon Szu-Mae, Special to CorpWatch March 5th, 2004 Rimbunan Hijau, a billion-dollar business owned by Malaysian tycoon Tiong Hiew King, has been engaging in illegal logging in South East Asia, while local governments turn a blind eye. |
 | Argentina Water Privatization Scheme Runs Dry by Sebastian Hacher, Special to CorpWatch February 26th, 2004 Rio de la Plata is one of the few rivers of the world whose pollution can be seen from space. Making matters worse is the privatized water company Aguas Argentinas, which dumps sewage into the river a few kilometers from where it treats water for drinking. |
| An Unreasonable Woman by Helene Vosters, Special to CorpWatch May 15th, 2003 Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, is a long time environmental justice activist and adversary to corporate polluters like Union Carbide and Dow Chemical. In the early 1980's after witnessing dolphin die-offs, decreased fish catches, and increased health problems in her home-town of Seadrift, Texas, Wilson discovered that she lived in the most polluted county (Calhoun) in the U.S. |
 | Tension in Paradise by Tom Price, Special to CorpWatch December 3rd, 2002 Tuvalu is like many places brushing up against development, simultaneously simple and complex. Island life hums along here, a small place where everyone knows everyone else, where children ask visitors names, and remember them days or weeks later. |
 | The Lacandon Jungle's Last Stand Against Corporate Globalization by Ryan Zinn, Special to CorpWatch September 26th, 2002 A battle is raging in Chiapas, Mexico to protect rainforest biodiversity and indigenous rights. Both are threatend by the Plan Puebla Panama. |
| Women's Protests Against ChevronTexaco Spread Through the Niger Delta by Sam Olukoya, Special to CorpWatch August 7th, 2002 Women recently occupied ChevronTexaco facilities throughout the Niger Delta. Their initial demands have been met, but issues remain. |
 | Sempra: Exporting Pollution by J.P. Ross, Greenpeace, Special to CorpWatch May 27th, 2002 San Diego-based Sempra Energy is dodging US environmental laws by building power plants in Mexico -- and shipping the electricity back to California. |
 | Enron's Pipe Scheme by Jimmy Langman, Special to CorpWatch May 9th, 2002 Enron's Cuiaba gas pipeline project, built with US government support, is an ecological and social disaster. Jimmy Langman reports from Bolivia. |
 | Trading in Disaster by Nityanand Jayaraman and Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 30,000 tons of possibly contaminated steel scrap from the twin towers has been exported to India. The shipments raise serious public health concerns. |
 | Environmental Justice from the Niger Delta to the World Conference Against Racism by Sam Olukoya, Special to CorpWatch August 30th, 2001 As the World Conference on Racism opens, EJ activists pledge to highlight environmental racism. Sam Olukoya looks at the connection between oil disasters in the Niger Delta and racism. |
| Integrity in the Balance: Al Gore's Record On the Environment by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch August 29th, 2000 Terri Swearingen has heard enough of Al Gore's promises on the environment. ''There may be some that believe he is a premier environmentalist, but not me,'' says the forty-three year old registered nurse and mother. |
| Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch August 29th, 2000 For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. |
| It Feels Like One Big Business Party by Randy Hayes, Los Angeles Times August 11th, 2000 Monday is the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, where thousands of environmental, human rights, labor and campaign finance reform advocates will gather both in the streets and at the Shadow Convention hosted by Arianna Huffington. We of Rainforest are not gathering to show our support for the Democratic Party. |
| Stolen Harvest CorpWatch March 17th, 2000 Stolen Harvest is the story of how those who labor, those who grow foods, nature and her amazing creatures, are all literally being stolen by tremendously clever mechanisms being put in place by global corporations trying to find new markets. |
 | Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice by Kenny Bruno, Joshua Karliner & China Brotsky, CorpWatch November 1st, 1999 This report documents how the companies not only contribute to global warming but also use their enormous power to DENY the problem, DELAY solutions, DIVIDE their opposition, DUMP their problems in the developing world, and DUPE the public into believing the problem is solved. |
| La Linea: Gender, Labor and Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch June 30th, 1999 TECATE, Mexico -- Tecate's coat of arms dubs this Mexican town ''Baja California's Industrial Paradise.'' About 30 miles from Tijuana, the city is home to the Tecate brewery and also houses an industrial park filled with assembly plants, or maquiladoras. This ''industrial paradise'' is one of several Mexican border boomtowns that is part of a global production system. |
| MITSUBISHI: The Most Environmentally Destructive Corporate Force on Earth by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch December 1st, 1997 The best known, most prestigious, and largest keiretsu, is the Mitsubishi Group of companies. Given the size and reach of its diverse activities, and due to the fact that it is more heavily focused in polluting industrial sectors than other keiretsu, the Mitsubishi Group may well be the single most environmentally destructive corporate force on Earth. |
| Freeport McMoRan's Corporate Profile Project Underground May 19th, 1997 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, headquartered in New Orleans, is one of the world's largest and lowest cost copper and gold producers, from its Grasberg mine in Irian Jaya. In 1996 it was regarded as one of the ten worst corporations by the Multinational Monitor magazine. |
| Global Gold Rush by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch May 19th, 1997 Gold is an intoxicating substance. Witness the rapidity with which investors threw their money into a relatively obscure Canadian mining corporation called Bre-X, when that company claimed to have discovered the largest single deposit of the metal in history. |
| The Environmental Cost of Computers Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition February 10th, 1997 Here is our "clickable computer." Click on any of these four computer parts to find out their environmental impact. |