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	Bechtel Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bechtel's size, its political clout, and its penchant for privacy have made it a perennial target for journalists and politicians since the 1930s.
		Bechtel's long involvement with oil, power, and water overseas has become a focus of criticism by the growing anti-globalization and environmental movements.
		Bechtel sought a preliminary injunction to block the release of the documents, but the superior court judge in the case denied Bechtel's request on April 11, 2003, opening the way for public release of the documents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bechtel_Corporation (3007 words)

	Riley P. Bechtel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Riley P. Bechtel is the chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Corporation.
		With a net worth of over $3 billion, Riley Bechtel is ranked as the 50th richest person in the U.S. and the 127th richest person in the world by Forbes Magazine.
		He joined Bechtel full-time in 1981, was elected President and COO of Bechtel in March of 1989, and became CEO in June 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riley_P._Bechtel (233 words)

	Bechtel Corporation
		Bechtel was a major contributor in the building of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s.
		Bechtel's long involvement with oil, power, and water overseas have been a focus of criticism by the growing anti-globalization and environmental movements.
		In 1972, Bechtel was awarded a $13 billion contract for the James Bay hydroelectric project in northwest Quebec.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Bechtel.html (2580 words)

	Dirty Dozen - Bechtel Corporation
		Bechtel, which is, paid $150 million a year for the project has conspired with Boston officials to cover billions of dollars in costs from investors and the public.
		Bechtel has positioned itself to be at the forefront of nuclear construction since the dawn of the nuclear age.
		Bechtel’s close relationship with the CIA helped influence overthrows of several foreign governments perceived as unfriendly to American business goals; and allowed the company to be at the right place at the right time to take advantage of new business opportunities with puppet regimes.
	www.reachingcriticalwill.org /corporate/dd/bechtel2.html (2894 words)

	Untitled Document
		By the 1930's it was a major corporation having played a crucial role in the construction of the Hoover Dam (dams have been a favourite of theirs ever since, as has the power industry in general, Bechtel is now a major player in both the fossil fuel and nuclear industries).
		While Bechtel now builds many types of large scale structure, from vast power stations and hospitals to major international airports, and even whole cities (hence their new contract to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure), one of their main specialisation's (along with their incestuous relationship with the oil industry) are highly secret military projects.
		One Fremont director, Riley Bechtel, is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Bechtel Group, and is a member of the Bush Administration: he was appointed this year to serve on the President's Export Council.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/DionysianUnderground/bechtel.htm (2666 words)

	Bechtel Corporation—USAID’s Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bechtel's first task was to assess the full extent of damage after three wars, sanctions, lotting, and general neglect.
		Bechtel and Iraqi Republic Railways (IRR) jointly constructed a new European-standard rail line in the Basrah region to improve freight transport service from the Port of Umm Qasr to the rest of the country.
		Bechtel's role in the reconstruction program has been to restore connectivity to telephone subscribers in the Baghdad area and to restore the fiber backbone to pre-conflict capability.
	www.bechtel.com /iraq.htm (739 words)

	Boston.com / News / Special reports / Big Dig cost overruns / part_2
		Since Bechtel employees staff most of the project jobs, "They are the ones who know most of the facts on the project, the ones who made most of the decisions on the project," he said.
		Bechtel, in charge of filing insurance claims on behalf of the state, missed the deadline, the arbitrator ruled.
		Bechtel officials declined to comment on the missed deadline or the wall movement.
	www.boston.com /news/specials/bechtel/part_2 (4290 words)

	The Gulliver Bechtel Corporation Dossier
		Bechtel built Da Nang, the US air-force base in South Vietnam; the Alaskan oil pipeline; was involved in construction on RTZ's Bougainville copper project in Papua New Guinea; and assisted Cominco in its plans to open a mine on Aboriginal land in the Canadian high arctic (5).
		Bechtel is responsible for evaluation of the expansion of the Chuqui copper project, controlled by the Chilean state mining company Codelco (11).
		Bechtel in 1980 took part in a preliminary survey for the construction of a gas pipeline across huge tracts of Sami land, a major aim of which is to provide fuel for military (NATO) use.
	www.sea-us.org.au /gulliver/bechtel.html (2221 words)

	In Bed with Bush — The Bechtel Story
		Bechtel, like all the rest of the handful of big corporations that effectively rule America, have their roots in the post-WWII economic 'boom' and the hysteria of the 'Red Menace'.
		Bechtel and other large corporations have been able to obtain legal title to much of the world's water supply through the process of privatization whereby goods and services previously considered part of the public domain become the exclusive property of a wealthy class of elites.
		Bechtel also built Occidental's oil pipelines in Colombia as well as in Libya[Bechtel] even won loan guarantees for Saddam Hussein's proposed Aqaba pipeline in Iraq which were later scuttled.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3397.htm (2285 words)

	National Building Museum: Bechtel's First Century
		Today a century after W.A. Bechtel began his career grading railroad beds with a mule-drawn scraper, the San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation is a global engineering and construction firm.
		Bechtel and a consortium of partners later engineered the retrofitting of Solar One to create the world's largest, most advanced solar-thermal power plant.
		Bechtel became actively involved in the project in 1987, when the managing company Eurotunnel asked Bechtel for assistance with financial and managerial problems that threatened to scuttle the world's largest privately financed civil engineering project.
	www.nbm.org /Exhibits/past/2000_1996/Bechtel.html (1144 words)

	West v. Bechtel Corporation
		Bechtel Corporation, a principal operating company in the group, has a policy against retaining employees residing in foreign countries to avoid subjecting itself to foreign laws and taxes.
		Bechtel Corporation' s motions for new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict were denied, and this appeal ensued.
		(a).) As for Bechtel Corporation' s failure to call Shotwell as a witness, given West' s burden of proof and failure to sustain that burden, it is immaterial whether the jury could have distrusted some of the defense evidence or that a stronger defense case might have been presented.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/mar/a089492.shtml (5769 words)

	CorpWatch : Bechtel's Water Wars
		Bechtel's legal action against Bolivia is currently being heard by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an international tribunal housed at the World Bank in Washington DC that holds all of its meetings in secret.
		Unfortunately the Bechtel Corporation was handed a powerful victory this February when the ICSID announced that it would not allow the public or media to participate in or even witness the proceedings.
		While Bechtel appears for the moment to have the upper hand in the Bolivian lawsuit, the corporate giant has not been as lucky in its hometown of San Francisco.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=6670 (1132 words)

	Republican-Friendly Bechtel Wins $680m Iraq Contract
		Bechtel was offered a contract worth up to $680m (£430m) on Thursday to restore Iraq's water and electricity supply and build roads, schools, sewers and hospitals.
		Bechtel has made $1.3m in political donations over the past four years, 60 per cent of it to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington campaign watchdog.
		The Bechtel contract follows on from the even more controversial choice, made in the opening days of the war, to give management of Iraqi oil fires and oilfield reconstruction to Halliburton, the Texas oil services company where Vice President Dick Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0419-04.htm (686 words)

	Iraq Reconstruction - USAID Project
		All proposals are evaluated by Bechtel and the award is made by Bechtel.
		Bechtel National, Inc. hosted contractor-supplier conferences in Washington D.C., London, Kuwait City, Baghdad, and Basrah during May-July 2003 to inform the worldwide contracting community of its role in USAID's Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program.
		Please notify Bechtel of receipt of your DUNS number when it arrives by e-mailing the information to procweb@bechtel.com.
	supplier.bechtel.com /bni/usaid (705 words)

	Nortorious Bechtel Corporation Shut Down : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 6:30am to 1:00 pm, the company was unable to conduct "business as usual." Bechtel is one of the most dominant members of the US military industrial complex.
		Bechtel is presently designing and developing earth penetrating nuclear weapons specifically designed for use in Iraq to destroy the very weapons Bechtel had supplied to the country.
		Bechtel is in line for multi-million dollar contracts from the Bush administration to rebuild the country they have been paid to destroy.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1586587 (311 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bechtel Corporation is one of the world’s premier engineering, construction, and project management companies.
		Bechtel has completed more than 20,000 projects in 140 countries and today is engaged in 1,100 projects in 66 countries.
		Bechtel expects its globally distributed employees to benefit from the collaborative capabilities of the platform, which allows them work remotely and synchronize when connected to the network.
	www.documentum.com /customer_success/success/bechtel.htm (499 words)

	Press Releases
		Bechtel is planning to increase the scope of its lab through the construction of a wireless test bed at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory later this year.
		Bechtel Telecommunications is a unit of Bechtel Corporation, a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, with 50,000 employees, more than 50 offices worldwide, and 2000 revenues of $14.3 billion.
		Bechtel Telecommunications provides design, engineering, project management, and construction management for a full range of telecommunication systems, through major offices in London, SÃ£o Paulo, Hong Kong, and the Frederick, MD world headquarters.
	home.cfl.rr.com /gldesigns/News/Press_Releases/press_releases_0.html (590 words)

	Polaris Institute - Public Service Workers Project - Bechtel Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bechtel Enterprises, a privately held firm, is the world’s largest construction company, having been involved heavily in the US’s construction boom in the post WWII period.
		Riley P. Bechtel, Bechtel CEO, is a member of the Business Roundtable and its policy committee (the Roundtable consists of the top CEOs in the country gathering to discuss economic policy and the means to influence policymakers) The roundtable is on the steering committee of US Trade, the group pushing Fast Track, as outlined above.
		Bechtel’s main purpose on this partnership is to keep the door open to future investment in Colombia and to push to continued access to Export-Import financing and OPIC insurance in Colombian ventures.
	www.polarisinstitute.org /corp_profiles/public_service_gats/corp_profile_ps_bechtel.html (3830 words)

	The Democracy Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In November 2001 Bechtel decided to add to the suffering it had already caused by filing a legal demand for $25 million against the Bolivian people – compensation for its lost opportunity to make future profits.
		The Center has engaged both Bechtel and the World Bank directly on their actions and led the campaign to file an International Citizen’s Petition with the World Bank demanding that the Bechtel vs. Bolivia case be opened.
		THE BECHTEL CORPORATION: The background on Bechtel’s role in the Bolivian water takeover and its legal actions against Bolivia.
	www.democracyctr.org /bechtel (594 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Science & Health. Leasing the Rain - Who's Who \| PBS
		Founded in 1898, San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation is the world's largest engineering and construction company, responsible for such high-profile projects as the Hoover Dam and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
		A Bechtel spokesperson maintained that the Bolivian government had agreed to a maximum 35 percent increase for water in the region and that, moreover, high water bills had more to do with increased consumption than with alleged price gouging.
		In December 2001, the Bechtel Corporation appealed to the World Bank to recoup $25 million in compensation it claims it is owed for the Bolivian government's cancellation of Aguas del Tunari's contract.
	www.pbs.org /now/science/who2.html (818 words)

	Ambient Corporation and Bechtel Telecommunications To Join Forces at SuperComm 2001
		Bechtel Corporation is the world's leading engineering and construction management firm.
		Bechtel will also assist Ambient with compliance with utility commission or utility board regulations and guidelines, and applicable state and federal laws, both in the United States and abroad.
		Readers are referred to the documents filed by Ambient Corporation with the SEC, including the company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-31-2001/0001504326&EDATE= (844 words)

	General Electric : GE Energy, Bechtel Power Corporation and American Electric Power (AEP) have signed a letter of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GE Energy, Bechtel Power Corporation and American Electric Power (AEP) have signed a letter of intent to perform a scoping study for an integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant of up to 1,200 megawatts planned by AEP.
		Bechtel Corporation is one of the world's leading engineering, procurement and construction companies, with significant experience in the design and construction of all forms of power generation, including IGCC plants.
		GE Energy has worked with Bechtel on a number of IGCC projects, including the 100-megawatt Cool Water plant in California, a demonstration project completed in 1984, and the Tampa Electric Company's 250-megawatt Polk Power Station in Florida, which began operation in 1996.
	www.ge.com /stories/en/20343.html?category=Product_Business (630 words)

	U.S. Gives Bechtel a Major Contract in Rebuilding Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		European governments still hope to extract more influence for the United Nations in shaping postwar Iraq, in part to ensure greater involvement by countries and organizations that are reluctant to work for a military occupation.
		Administration officials said it was important to give contracts to American corporations, essentially leapfrogging over international groups, as a way to demonstrate to the Iraqi people that the United States is a liberator bringing economic prosperity and democratic institutions to their nation.
		Bechtel defeated a handful of other construction companies today to win the contract.
	www.nytimes.com /glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18REBU.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=3dba7369Q2FQ7EQ2AazQ7E)Q26KmXQ26Q26qeQ7EeGG-Q7EGLQ7EQ24CQ7EgTqaXTcqgQ26Tc7Q7EQ2AQ26X7)m5aKgc7Q7EQ24C,(vAFQ7CqQ3E7 (843 words)

	Townsend and Townsend and Crew - Bechtel Corporation
		Since 1898, Bechtel Corporation successfully completed more than 20,000 projects in 140 nations on all seven continents.
		As an engineer-constructor, Bechtel is organized to respond to customers with creative technology and local expertise, providing flexible solutions and outstanding value.
		For many decades, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP has provided strategic IP counsel on Bechtel's patents, copyrights and trademarks, including the clearance and enforcement of Bechtel's trademarks around the world.
	www.townsend.com /case/caseDetails.asp?o=5034 (78 words)

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