[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Enron and India

[jonathan lawson]

Oh, wait a minute--I didn't read carefully enough. The whole point of the 
MSNBC ref is that it's a mainstream source. Sorry! :) Maybe making "the 
national media cannot ignore" the linked text would make that point more 
strongly? my 2cents.

since Jason has approved, I'll go ahead and post it. Gentry--since these 
are collectively authored, we often take little liberties with commas, 
words and the like, and/or add extra links. If you frown on any of these, 
or have further additions/changes, contact me or another editorial password 
holder (me, Lance, Jason, Jeremy, Susan, Brendan, Walt).

Jonathan

At 08:20 PM 7/25/2002 +0000, gentry lange wrote:
>[Subtitle] ENRON"S WORLDWIDE IMPACT <br>
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>[Title] Enron and India's Biggest Dam <br>
>
>
><P>While the fact that US citizens <a 
>href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/785565.asp">recently lost their jobs and 
>retirement funds</a> is apparently a story the national media cannot 
>ignore. <a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=457"> 
>Enron's track record </a> prior to its spectacular collapse is shocking 
>and rarely makes headline news even now.</P>
>
><P><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0203-03.htm"> Enron helped 
>to create thousands of environmental refugees in India</A> where
>they forced through the development of the Dahbol Dam Project.  India's 
>Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) guarunteed $30 Billion in
>payment to Enron for building the Dahbol Power Project. Now with Enron 
>Collapse, <a 
>href="http://www.corpwatchindia.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=543"> the Dam 
>is apparently closed, and the people who lost their land are demanding it 
>back</a>. </P>
>
><P>Way back in January 25, 1999, <a href="http://www.hrw.org">Human Rights 
>Watch</a> published an <a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/enron/"> 
>166 page book </a>documenting exstensive human rights in connection to the 
>construction of the dam. Relocation of Villagers and towns affected by the 
>project never occured, while the completed dam projects have only produced 
>20% of the electricity projected during construction. Despite India's <a 
>href="http://www.narmada.org/nvdp.dams/index.html#map_links"> long history 
>with Dam projects</a>, there are <a 
>href="http://www.narmada.org/maps/nvdp.jpg">plans for several more dams in 
>the works</a>.<P>
>
><P>For some background on the rest of the Enron story that the major media 
>is not covering, including George Bush's long history of working
>to Globalize Enron's destructive potential, read Pratap Chatterjee's 
>article, <a href="http://www.sfbg.com/News/32/17/WorldView/">Global
>Gospel of Gas</a>, printed way back in January of 1998. Or for a more 
>recent account, check out the book <a 
>href="http://www.southendpress.org/books/powerpolitics.shtml">Power 
>Politics by Arundhati Roy</a>.
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