Saturday, February 19, 2011

Chevron Must Pay!

Alternet - Feb. 19'11

An Ecuadorian judge ordered Chevron this week to pay $8.6 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon rainforest from 1964 until 1990. Incredibly, Chevron is known to refuse to pay such damages, even when a court orders it to do so! Read story here. 

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Severe drought leads to urgent order for Manitoba Hydro to raise rates by 4% on Jan. 1

CBC News Crown corporation requested 3 consecutive rate hikes of 3.5%. Story here.