NGO reaction to the Extractive Industries Review...
Article from: OGEL 1 (2004), in Book Reviews and Related Material
Introduction
Dear Members of Global Response's 'Quick Response Network:' Over Global Response's 13-year history, we have frequently campaigned to stop World Bank financing for extractive industries - especially oil and gas projects that affect indigenous communities and regions of high biological diversity. We are gratified to see the recently released recommendations of an official evaluation of the impacts of World Bank financing for extractive industries. The Extractive Industries Review (EIR) calls on the Bank to immediately stop financing coal projects and to phase out support for ...