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Sent: 11 May 2006 16:36
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Subject: [corp-watchers] Entergy Holds New Orleans for Ransom
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Entergy Holds New Orleans for Ransom
Rita J. King
May 10th, 2006
Entergy, the largest electricity distributor in the U.S., has enjoyed
healthy profits since Hurricane Katrina. Yet its New Orleans subsidiary has
filed for bankruptcy, and frightened ratepayers with visions of bills
bloated to 140% of their pre-storm size. Now the Fortune 500 company is
threatening to pull the plug on New Orleans if it doesn't get a $700
million-plus federal bailout it doesn't actually need.
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13569
Also, check out these media spotlights on CorpWatch's newest investigative
report, "Afghanistan, Inc."
MORNING EDITION: Report Takes Dim View of Afghan Rebuilding Work
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13571
Inter Press Service: The Enron-isation of Afghanistan?
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13562
The whole report "Afghanistan, Inc." is available here:
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13518
IN THE NEWS
KATRINA
KATRINA: Northrop Makes Pitch for Storm Aid
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13565
KATRINA: Storm contractors found to clean up in scams
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13545
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
US: Executives Take Company Planes as if Their Own
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13558
MINING
CANADA: Turning sludge into black gold
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13557
FOOD AND AGRICULURE
ARGENTINA: Argentine leader joins mill rally
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13556
GERMANY: Public Housing in Private Hands
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13548
ENERGY
BOLIVIA: Neighbours Recognise Bolivia's 'Sovereign' Right to Nationalise Gas
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13563
AFRICA: Anger rises in oil-rich Chad as funds don't aid the poor
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13559
NIGERIA: New Pipeline a "Recipe for Disaster", Locals Say
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13566
RUSSIA: Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive
Whale Species to Extinction
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13527
HUMAN RIGHTS
JORDAN: An Ugly Side of Free Trade Sweatshops
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13567
NETHERLANDS: The Dutch Try One of Their Own Over Links to Liberia
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13534
WAR PROFITEERING
IRAQ: Green Zone Construction Boom
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13538
US: Chief's Pay Is Docked by Raytheon
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13533
IRAQ: US Private Guards Kill Baghdad Ambulance Crewman
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13542
IRAQ: Huge fraud exposed in Iraq contracts
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13523
IRAQ: Blood is Thicker Than Blackwater
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13521
IRAQ: U.S. Pays for 150 Iraqi Clinics, and Manages to Build 20
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13541
HEATLH
INDIA: India rejects wheat from Australia
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13524
TECHNOLOGY
CHINA: Yahoo China is under fire again
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13529
US: Recycling: Not Apple's Core Value
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13530
US: Net Neutrality: McCurry Sells Out to AT&T
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13573
PHARMACEUTICALS
US: Generic Drug Payoff Draws Gov't. Interest
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13528
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