WHAT’S NEW ON CORPWATCH – Entergy Holds New Orleans for Ransom Rita J. King

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10/5/06	WHAT’S NEW ON CORPWATCH – Entergy Holds New Orleans for Ransom Rita J. King
	Holding Corporations Accountable << www.corpwatch.org >> 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. 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 www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13571 Inter Press Service: The Enron-isation of Afghanistan? www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13562 The whole report “Afghanistan, Inc.” is available here: corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13518 IN THE NEWS KATRINA KATRINA: Northrop Makes Pitch for Storm Aid corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13565 KATRINA: Storm contractors found to clean up in scams corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13545 EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION US: Executives Take Company Planes as if Their Own corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13558 MINING CANADA: Turning sludge into black gold corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13557 FOOD AND AGRICULURE ARGENTINA: Argentine leader joins mill rally corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13556 GERMANY: Public Housing in Private Hands corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13548 ENERGY BOLIVIA: Neighbours Recognise Bolivia’s ‘Sovereign’ Right to Nationalise Gas corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13563 AFRICA: Anger rises in oil-rich Chad as funds don’t aid the poor corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13559 NIGERIA: New Pipeline a “Recipe for Disaster”, Locals Say corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13566 RUSSIA: Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13527 HUMAN RIGHTS JORDAN: An Ugly Side of Free Trade Sweatshops corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13567 NETHERLANDS: The Dutch Try One of Their Own Over Links to Liberia corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13534 WAR PROFITEERING IRAQ: Green Zone Construction Boom corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13538 US: Chief’s Pay Is Docked by Raytheon corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13533 IRAQ: US Private Guards Kill Baghdad Ambulance Crewman corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13542 IRAQ: Huge fraud exposed in Iraq contracts corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13523 IRAQ: Blood is Thicker Than Blackwater corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13521 IRAQ: U.S. Pays for 150 Iraqi Clinics, and Manages to Build 20 corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13541 HEATLH INDIA: India rejects wheat from Australia corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13524 TECHNOLOGY CHINA: Yahoo China is under fire again corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13529 US: Recycling: Not Apple’s Core Value corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13530 US: Net Neutrality: McCurry Sells Out to AT&T corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13573 PHARMACEUTICALS US: Generic Drug Payoff Draws Gov’t. Interest corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13528 DONATE TO CORPWATCH! Support CorpWatch’s work to hold corporations accountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice issues through education and activism. Help us bring the critical information and resources that tens of thousands of you access every month by making a contribution to CorpWatch. www.corpwatch.org/donate =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CorpWatch — Holding Corporations Accountable 1611 Telegraph Ave, Suite 702 Oakland, CA 94612 USA Tel: 510-271-8080 Fax: 510-271-8083 URL: www.corpwatch.org Also check out www.warprofiteers.com! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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