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January 6, 2004

Usaid Awards Bechtel National Iraq Infrastructure II Contract

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today the award of a contract to Bechtel National, Inc. to undertake Iraq Infrastructure II, a program to rehabilitate and repair Iraq's infrastructure system. Bechtel is teamed with Parsons of Pasadena, California,...

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December 22, 2003

YEAR-END REVIEW TO U.S. CONGRESS: IRAQ INFRASTRUCTURE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Bechtel has completed all major work — including dredging, wreck removal, and grain facility rehabilitation — enabling commercial use and entry of deep-draft ships for offloading of critical food and humanitarian supplies to 22 million Iraqi citizens. Buildings and Facilities...

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December 19, 2003

BECHTEL CIVIL SIGNS $2.5 BILLION ROMANIAN MOTORWAY PROJECT

The four-lane motorway, stretching from Brasov in the Romania interior to Oradea on the Romania-Hungarian border, forms an important section of the Romanian national motorway system. It will link the Black Sea, via Bucharest, to Central and Western Europe. This...

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December 11, 2003

BECHTEL/PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF STATEMENT ON POSSIBLE LAWSUIT RELATED TO BOSTON CENTRAL ARTERY/TUNNEL

This issue has received intense scrutiny and has been reviewed by several State and Federal oversight agencies.  Indeed, the Inspector General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued a report in March 2001 stating:  “In 1994 Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff  (B/PB) provided the...

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December 3, 2003

Iraq Project Update to U.S. Congress

Status Report: Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Project December 2, 2003    Major Milestones Port of Umm Qasr Reopened Iraq’s only deepwater port to receive hundreds of thousands of tons of food and humanitarian supplies for 22 million Iraqi citizens as well...

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October 30, 2003

Getting the Facts Straight: Bechtel’s Response to Newsweek

I was profoundly disappointed with Newsweek’s November 3 article, “The $87 Billion Money Pit,” and cannot help but think that this was a story in search of failures rather than an objective search for the truth about the efforts to reconstruct...

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