Greek Privatization of Key Sectors Meets Strong Opposition
Published on Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Inter Press Service Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS News PPC power...
Read More
Tag: privatization
Outsourced Cities, Brought to You by CH2M Hill
When the town of Sandy Springs, Georgia, spun-off from Fulton County and established a brand new government, it didn’t sign a Declaration of Independence; it signed a contract.
Read MoreColombia Nationwide Strike Against 'Free Trade,' Privatization, Poverty
Work stoppages sparked by peasants have spread across industries as hundreds of thousands protest US-backed right-wing government
Read MoreMaddow – Inc.arceration – Private prisons benefit from AZ law
Is it possible the entire ‘ginned up’, whacked out Arizona immigration laws have been enacted to benefit ‘for profit’ private prison corporations? Yes.
Electrical grid not ready for renewable energy
Once again the evidence that centralized power production is a colossal dinosaur is overwhelming....
Read MoreBlackwater now in the intelligence business
Privatized armies and now intelligence gathering, this is very, very scary stuff. Video from Rawstory
Read MoreInvesting in dependence is a failed strategy
This past week heralded a stunning example of the dangers of designing an economic policy dependent upon outside resources. Just three days after Governor Kulongoski inaugurated the new $20M airport terminal and delivered a...
Read MoreEconomy will force localization
In the wake of the horrific flooding in Iowa and the Midwest commodities traders are predicting a sharp increase in food prices across the nation. The floods, made worse by collapsed levees, devastated millions of acres of crops...
Read MoreDanger of allowing control of essential services to foreign company
Belize, a Central American country with a population of 314,000 has been in an ongoing power struggle with the country’s Canadian owned power company, Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) over a rate increase. Fortis is the...
Read MorePrivatization may be pirating or highway robbery
Last week, Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, despite 58% opposition by his constituents transferred control of the 497 mile Pennsylvania Turnpike to a Spanish consortium, Abertis. Rendell is not the first governor to...
Read MoreLargest privatization deal in US history
Privatization of essential services is a huge mistake, in my opinion, we have seen what a fiasco privatizing electricity production has been…. this does not bode well. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is now controlled by a...
Read MorePPAs finance solar installations
PPAs or power purchase agreements are essentially a long term contract for energy now being offered to residential homeowners and businesses. The contract provides the basis for financing the installation of solar or other...
Read More