MORE than 600 non-government organisations have warned that three second-hand power plants under construction in East Timor may endanger the health and livelihoods of the country’s 1 million people…
The re-siting of the more than 20-year-old plants from China to East Timor threatens to tarnish Beijing’s image in the country, where it is one of the biggest foreign donors.
The Government decided to buy the plants from the Chinese Nuclear Industry 22nd Construction Company without an open tendering process. They will commit East Timor, which is rich in gas, to importing expensive heavy oil for decades…
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