Fortis Belize
05/17/2010 Belize’s sole electricity provider, Belize Electricity Limited (majority-owned by Newfoundland-based Fortis), continues to be one of the country's highest-earning companies, bringing in more than $186-million revenue last year. Yet its net profit is far smaller—just $8.9-million. Now the company is saying that’s not enough. |
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05/05/2010 There is no public advisory out; however, recently unveiled data on mercury levels in fish of the Macal River has environmentalist and activist Candy Gonzalez of Belize Environmental Law and Policy Office (BELPO) concerned that the community may be eating itself to poor health without knowing it. read more » |
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03/05/2010 When it comes to the Chalillo Dam, it appears that we are supposed to accept all the outrageous and misleading things we are told and not question the logic or the contradictions of what they say. read more » |
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12/28/2009 Guy Lanza, director of UMass Amherst’s Environmental Science Program, says the hydro electric industry has mounted a public relations offensive to promote itself as green, and powerful institutions like the World Bank are buying it, but the reality is these projects are just the opposite of green and can cause severe, long-lasting damage. “I have real reservations about promoting hydropower as green power when in most cases it’s not,” he says. read more » |
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12/12/2009 The situation on the Macal River in Belize is murky. Downstream from the Chalillo dam owned by Belize Electric, which is in turn owned by St. John's-based Fortis Inc., the river is filled with silt, turning it the colour of chocolate milk. read more » |
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12/01/2009 Probe International initiates a campaign to make Stanley Marshall and the Newfoundland-based Fortis Inc. accountable to the people of Belize and stakeholders in Canada regarding the pollution spewing down the Macal river from the Fortis-owned Chalillo dam. Read the letter and take action. read more » |
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10/25/2009 The Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy (BELPO) is back in court over the muddy discharges from the Chalillo dam into the Macal and Belize rivers. read more » |
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10/15/2009 The Belize government has issued a press release with the results from water tests on the Macal River. The tests were performed on August 18th, after photographs were released showing the Chalillo dam on the Macal River discharging sediment-laden water. read more » |
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10/16/2009 Belize’s Institute of Environmental Law and Policy (BELPO) has filed an application to Belize’s Supreme Court for an injunction to stop the sediment discharges from the Canadian owned Chalillo dam on the Macal River. read more » |
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09/30/2009 International aid and trade watchdog, Probe International, is asking Stanley Marshall, President and CEO of the Newfoundland-based power company Fortis Inc., to start accounting to the people of Belize and its shareholders about contamination of the Macal and Belize Rivers in Belize by the company's Chalillo dam. read more » |
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