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...said.WILL HE TURN BACK THE CLOCK?Despite last April’s landmark decision to divest from PetroChina, the University has maintained its investments in other companies linked to Sudan, including Sinopec, an oil firm accused of close ties to the Khartoum regime.Sinopec is the major contractor on a pipeline that will carry oil from the Melut Basin in southern Sudan to a Red Sea port—a project that could boost Sudan’s petroleum exports substantially, according to a December 2004 Washington Post report.At the end of last year, Harvard owned 134,050 Sinopec shares?...
...Europe in 14 years. The winner of the $3.6 billion plant contract was Areva, in a joint venture with Germany's Siemens. China currently has nine nuclear reactors in operation and says it will increase its nuclear capacity fivefold by 2020. The Chinese are expected to select a Western contractor for two new plants this year. The race is among Areva, Westinghouse and Russia's AtomStroyExport...
...workers came from Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and other parts of Louisiana. I would estimate that more than half of the workers we spoke to had outstanding wage and hour claims—for the most part shady contractor or subcontractor outfits who promised them one wage but ended up paying another, failed to pay overtime, made illegal deductions and, the issue that came up perhaps most frequently, just skipped town without paying up at all,” Chen wrote...
...mail to The Crimson last spring that “Sinopec’s role in Sudan is clearly not as great as CNPC’s”—a reference to PetroChina’s parent company.“Sinopec is essentially a contractor, whereas CNPC actually owns the lead shares in the consortium that runs Sudan’s oil patch,” Goodman wrote. Sinopec is in the process of building a pipeline from the Melut Basin of southern Sudan to a Red Sea tanker terminal, according to an article by Goodman...
...Copeland, Lowery?s lobbying activity has already attracted unwanted attention. The Justice Department charges that an executive of ADCS, a defense contractor client, provided some of the $2.4 million in illegal gifts to Appropriations Committee member Duke Cunningham, who late last year resigned and pleaded guilty to taking bribes. Scofield, backed by disclosure filings, says Shockey did not lobby for ADCS. In fact, Scofield and Shockey?s attorney, Oldaker, insist Shockey plays no role in earmark decisions...