Black & Veatch's Tarakhil Power Plant: White Elephant in Kabul

by Pratap Chatterjee
CorpWatch
November 19, 09

In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, $285
million in U.S. taxpayer dollars have flowed into a Black & Veatch-built
power plant outside Tarakhil village. But, far from the public relations
coup the project was intended to supply, the plant has run into problems
with planning, cost over-runs and alleged corruption...

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FINDING A VOICE by Ann Davidow
BuzzFlash
November 3, 2009

...when executives can walk off with multi-million-dollar golden parachutes and retirement packages while union workers are called avaricious consumers of health care and wages, a moment's reflection proves that our present system has deteriorated into a twisted version of free enterprise in which money managers are free to manipulate markets and people at will...

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