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01.03.2000

Reckless Lending: How Canada's Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk

Barrick Gold Inmet Placer Dome Papua New Guinea Philippines Environment Export Development Canada Indigenous Rights World Bank/Intl Financial Institutions

A report published by the NGO Working Group on the EDC, part of the Halifax Initiative Coalition. Includes case studies on Placer Dome's Marcopper Mine in the Philippines and the Ok Tedi Copper Mine in Papua New Guinea, partly owned by Inmet.

Reckless Lending: How Canada's Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk

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