[PEN-L:9615] Re: Your tax dollars at work in Indonesia

[Bill Rosenberg <w.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The original (excellent) report was

Wasted Energy: How U.S. Companies And Suharto's Circle Electrified
Indonesia
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Power Deals That Cut In First Family and Friends Are Now Under Attack
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Mission-GE Sets the Tone
By Peter Waldman and Jay Solomon

12/23/98, The Wall Street Journal, Page A1

Eugene - any chance of you posting the one you mention below?

Edison is 40% "cornerstone" shareholder (and expected to buy more) in
New Zealand's largest electricity generator and second-largest
electricity retailer, recently privatised Contact Energy. We have
made extensive use of the above article in New Zealand. If anyone
wants more detail on the electricity "reforms" here, let me know.

Bill Rosenberg

Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Today's (7/21/99) Wall Street Journal reports on how the U. S.
> government is muscling Indonesia to protect the profits of U. S.
> power companies such as Mission Energy, a subsidiary of Edison
> International, parent of Southern California Edison.
.....

>
> Read the story, and the remarkable piece of journalism about these
> contracts some months ago in the Wall St. Journal.  Sorry I don't
> have the date of that story at hand.  If one of you can remind me of
> that date I would appreciate it.
>
> Gene Coyle
>


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