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Feature: Mayors Vote to End Taxpayer Spending on Bottled Water
Posted June 24, 2008 in [Water]
Corporate Accountability International press release, June 23, 2008 - The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution today encouraging mayors to phase out city spending on bottled water and to promote the importance of municipal water.
» read moreFeature: New York City: City Council Shuns Bottles in Favor of Water From Tap
Posted June 17, 2008 in [Water]
JENNIFER LEE, New York Times, June 17, 2008 - The City Council has become the latest government agency to take a stand against bottled water.
» read moreDocumentary claims Nestle spied on anti-globalisation group
Posted June 16, 2008 in [Corporations]
June 13, 2008, Agence France Presse - A documentary aired by francophone Swiss television station TSR has accused global food giant Nestle of having sent a spy to infiltrate an anti-globalisation group for one year.
» read moreWTO members launch push for industry deal
Posted June 11, 2008 in [Trade]
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) - A dozen rich and poor countries launched
talks on Monday to reach agreement on trade in industrial goods,
diplomats said. The talks, hosted by the United States, include the
European Union and Japan with advanced developing countries like India,
China and Brazil, and are due to run for one or two weeks.
Canada: water 'source of fear' for native communities, report says
Posted May 26, 2008 in [Water]
Mike De Souza, The National Post - Water quality in aboriginal communities and reserves across the country has reached a "boiling point," warns a new report released Thursday by the Polaris Institute, the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Labour Congress.
» read moreCoke’s Annual Meeting of Contradictions
Posted May 26, 2008 in [Corporations]
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute, May 26, 2008 – As I sat in the plush confines of the Hotel Dupont’s ballroom at the Coca Cola Company’s annual meeting of shareowners on April 16, I listened as the CEO elect Muhtar Kent laid bare the company’s duplicity.
» read moreBoiling Point!
Posted May 22, 2008 in [Water]
May 22, 2008 - Today Phil Fontaine, the National Chief of the AFN, Tony Clarke, the Executive Director of Polaris Institute and the Canadian Labour Congress released a publication on the water crisis facing First Nation communities in Canada.
» read moreHow to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture and who's fighting back
Posted May 16, 2008 in [Trade]
Walden Bello, The Nation, June 2008 edition - When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit.
» read moreThe Polaris Institute Along with 26 Other Groups Fight Attempt to Repeal Crucial Climate Provision from 2007 U.S. Energy Bill
Posted May 12, 2008 in [Energy]
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2008, NRDC Press Release – Today, the Natural Resources Defense Council and 26 other U.S.
» read moreCarlsberg the latest to suffer water backlash
Posted May 9, 2008 in [Corporations]
Jenny Wiggins, May 8, 2008, Financial Times - Carlsberg, which owns the water brands, Ramlosa and Arkina, yesterday underscored the growing environmental backlash against bottled water by warning of falling sales in Europe as people switch to tap water.
» read moreCorporate Vultures Lurk Behind the World Food Crisis
Posted April 30, 2008 in [Trade]
Anuradha Mittal, AlterNet, April 29, 2008 - The IMF, WTO and the rest of the neoliberal world are still pushing more trade as a cure for what ails us.
» read moreJohannesburg High Court declares prepaid water meters unlawful & unconstitutional
Posted April 30, 2008 in [Water]
Johannesburg High Court finds enforced choice between pre-paid meter and standpipe to be unlawful and unconstitutional and orders City of Johannesburg to provide full range of water delivery service options.
» read moreTurkey's Government Plans Sweeping Water Privatisation in Run-up to World Water Forum in Istanbul
Posted April 23, 2008 in [Water]
Olivier Hoedeman and Orsan Senalp, April 2008, Corporate Europe Observatory - In March 2009 the Turkish government will host the fifth World Water Forum against a backdrop of what is probably the most sweeping water privatisation programme in the world.
» read moreTurning on Canada's Tap?
Posted April 3, 2008 in [Water]
April 3, 2008 - The Polaris Institute released today a new report on bulk water exports called Turning on Canada’s Tap? The report, prepared by Tony Clarke, Executive Director of the Polaris Institute, outlines why Canada needs a comprehensive policy and strategy now on bulk water exports to the United States.
» read moreLiquid Asset
Posted March 28, 2008 in [Energy]
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business Magazine, March 28, 2008 - Here in Canada, we tend to think that while water scarcity, drying rivers and toxic lakes may be huge global problems, they really only affect places like China and the Middle East.
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