Fortis Belize
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
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 » |
|||
09/30/2009 Letter from Probe International to Stanley Marshall, President and CEO of the Newfoundland-based power company Fortis Inc., asking him to start accounting to the people of Belize and its shareholders about the contamination of the Macal River in Belize by the company's Chalillo dam. read more » |
|||
09/04/2009 Newfoundland-based Fortis Inc. shocks river with sediment discharges from Chalillo dam, threatens public health, river ecology and the Belize barrier reef. read more » |
|||
