The Enron Corporation: Recommendations To the Govt. of the United States (January 1999)



"Many energy companies have invested in closed or repressive countries -- arguing that their investment would help develop the local economy and thereby improve the human rights situation. But in this case, Enron has invested in a democratic country -- and human rights abuses there have increased. Enron hasn't made things better for human rights; it has made things worse."	Summary and Recommendations To the Government of India To the Enron Corporation To the Government of the United States To Private and Public Financial Institutions that Financed the Dabhol Power Project
Table of Contents Key Individuals Named in this Report I. Summary and Recommendations II. Background: New Delhi and Bombay III. Background to the Protests: Ratnagiri District IV. Legal Restrictions Used to Suppress Opposition to the Dabhol Power Project V. Ratnagiri: Violations of Human Rights 1997 VI. The Applicable Laws VII. Complicity: The Dabhol Power Corporation VIII. Responsibility: Financing Institutions and the Government of the United States IX. Conclusion Appendix A: Correspondence Between Human Rights Watch and the Export-Import Bank of the United States Appendix B: Report of the Cabinet Sub-Committee to Review the Dabhol Power Project Appendix C: Selected Recommendations and Conclusions from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy, May 29, 1995 Appendix D: Correspondence Between the Government of India and the World Bank	Recommendations *To the Government of the United States* · Publicly condemn all human rights violations that occurred as a result of the Dabhol Power project and urge the Indian government to investigate allegations of human rights violations. · Make public the human rights impact assessment conducted by the Export-Import Bank of the United States on the Dabhol Power project under the human rights policy of the Export-Import Bank. · Verify and make public whether the Export-Import Bank of the United States considered information about human rights before extending financing to the Dabhol Power project, as required under Section 2(b)(1)(B) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945. · Verify and make public whether the Department of State conducted a study of human rights and provided this information to the Export-Import Bank, as required under Export-Import Bank policy. · Amend legislation governing transactions by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to ensure that human rights violations are a condition for suspension of U.S. government assistance to transnational corporations. · Conduct an audit, through the General Accounting Office or other government agencies, of all public funds used to finance the Dabhol Power project.