Maid of the Mist Boat Service Contract may go to Alcatraz Media

$800 million "Maid of the Mist" boat service contract may go to Atlanta, Georgia-based Alcatraz Media. The Maid of the Mist boat service contract has been a major controversy in Canada for the last year.  The contract was awarded to a New York company without competitive...

Niagara Parks Commission Sued to void $500 Million Lease

A lawsuit was filed on February 26, 2009 against The Niagara Parks Commission and Maid of the Mist. The lawsuit asks the Divisional Court to issue a mandatory order requiring the Niagara Parks Commission to adhere to Corporate Policy CPM-03-02, the Niagara Parks Procurement...

Lawsuit to declare Niagara Parks Commission & Maid Lease Illegal

The big news in Niagara Falls is the huge controversy over the secret practices of The Niagara Parks Commission in awarding a lease to Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company Limited to offer the boat service at Niagara Falls.  It is estimated that the lease will generate at...

Oil Companies Escape Billions in Royalty Payments to Americans; Drilling Expa...

"Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program A bureaucratic oversight has allowed 24 oil companies to avoid more than $1.3 billion in royalties for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas from U.S. territory in the Gulf of Mexico - with...

Whew! Any Other Ideas for Kananaskis?

Creating a new park in Kananaskis might be one way to halt Ted Morton's plans to clear-cut 800,000 acres there.  The rest of Kananaskis is already a park but the eastern section, the one in question,...

Aboriginal Communal land up for grabs

AhHa! Now we know!The current Australian Aboriginal crisis is all about a LAND GRAB!  Soon, the developers will be able to get their hands on indigenous lands!!.........Related: a few weeks back we heard that...

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