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NEWS October 21st
2003
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**ACTION** DAM Plans for a devastating dam in the Macal River Valley
in Belize are moving ahead. A little over a year after environmentalists
managed to block construction, Fortis, Inc., of Canada has contracted
a Chinese construction company to begin building. UK-based AMEC presents itself as 'green'; keeping a low profile about its support for the nuclear industry, and emphasising its support for wind energy. AMEC and British Energy's joint project to build the world's largest wind farm, for example, has drawn significant media attention. The facts that AMEC serves the nuclear industry and fuels climate change through its support for the oil and gas industry, its push for huge airport and road building schemes, etc are conveniently underexposed. Both British Energy (UK's largest nuclear generator) and British Nuclear Fuels are among AMEC's clients, as are the UK Ministry of Defence and British Aerospace. AMEC conducted what it said was an independent environmental assessment of the dam. Environmentalists consider the study to be flawed. The dam would flood the upper Macal River Valley, erasing 57 square kilometers of the last intact rainforest in northern Central America. It would destroy a habitat for rare jaguars, tapirs, crocodiles and a subspecies of the scarlet macaw, of which only 1,000 remain in the wild, 200 of them in Belize. CONTACTS: SIGN PETITION TO STOP FORTIS: http://petition.stopfortis.org TELL AMEC WHAT YOU THINK: AMEC Plc Headquarters and registered office: AMEC London details
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