seems like time marches on...and the MACAW valley will soon be gon ...forever....
YES it can still be stopped ....and should be stopped ....i was in the ballerina valley .[one of the macaw valley sections...and it was beautifull.... the pics might be up at..stopfortis.com by now
we shouldnt let this go through.......save these valleys ... stop the damn projects....hydro elec. generation is archaic.........a step bak in time ...just aint right....

GO TO stopfortis.com

Isn't the Nature Conservancy involved? I thought they were. I'm willing to help. Tie myself to a tree?

grace ...have you noticed yu are the onli other personn that has shown ,[on this board] some ....hmmmm... interest...in saving such a beautiful spot on plannet earth....
it's moose country fi sure

STOP FORTIS! Not only will this destroy the valley and its inhabitants, it will rape the citizens financially for decades to come.

and where will the foriegn workers gonna go when the dam[s] are built

Moose, I actually signed the petition months ago, and have followed the story closely. Interestingly enough, the Belize Audobon Society SUPPORTS the dam?

Aren't the Chinese financing the dam?

They've already taken over Panama

Fortis is a Canadian company. I dont' know anything about China, although I seem to remember the governemnt of Taiwan helped finance a recent road project. Was it the Southern Highway completion?

Silly remarks like "they've (Chinese) already taken over Panama" do not add any substance to the debate over the dam scam.
Why not stick to the real arguments (like the environmental destruction and the sweetheart contract that will bankrupt Belize while putting bucks in the hands of a handful of pols.)
Those are real issues, no need to engage in paranoid conspiracy theories.
Fortis and the telecom fiascos are the inevitable result of the failure of the people of Belize to demand a democratic, accountable, government. Eventually they will do so and things will change. Unfortunately, the misery index will probably have to rise considerably before that happens.
I suspect that probably the only way to stop the Fortis project is to convince Fortis that Belize will default on its payments. The people who run that corporation don't care what they do to the environment but they do care about their bottom line. If they come to believe that a future government is likely to repudiate the contract and refuse to pay them, they may back out.

THEY SURE GATS GOOD PC SECURITY ....DEM FORTIS ....DATS FI SURE.....

THEY NID ANOTHER CRACKER [no pun intended] VISIT