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NEWS August 20 2001
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| Around the Web... New contractor for Brighton bins Following the termination of the contract with French multinational Sita after workers went on strike over outrageous new working conditions, (see http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news308.htm) Brighton has awarded the new contractor to another company, Serviceteam, rather than retaining the service in-house. The BBC report of the new award is interesting as it totally fails to mention the strike which brought Sita to its knees and forced the council to withdraw their contract – obviously maintaining the myth that in this brave spin-doctored New Labour world industrial disputes are a thing of the past… http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1483000/1483930.stm Amazon Watch Launches Mega-Project Report: "New Pipelines Threaten Intact Amazon Rainforest in Brazil" The report examines plans to construct two new pipelines to expand oil and gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. It details the detrimental social and environmental consequences of the $1.7 billion gas project which is part of President Cardoso's $45 billion economic development program ‘Avança Brasil’ http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/newsreleases01/aug1001_br.html Oxfam International Public Position on the Genoa G8 Summit Some may disagree with their verdit on the protests, but this statement contains an accessible analysis of what the G8 actually agreed in Genoa, and what it means for global poverty. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/whatnew/press/genoa2001.htm Globalisation isn’t even good for economic growth! Jonathan Steele in the Guardian reports on the little-known evidence that in the period from when economic globalisation began in earnest in the early 80’s to the present, overall economic growth has actually slowed compared with the previous twenty years when protectionism and production for home markets were the rule. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,531451,00.html Death blast power station reopens Power generation is to resume at the Enron plant on Teesside where three people died in an explosion on 8 August. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1492000/1492120.stm |