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    The Nicaragua Grand Canal: Economic Miracle or Folie de Grandeur?

    By Russell White

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    A canal through Nicaragua connecting two oceans has been a dream central to Nicaraguan identity and to the history of the country. But the current Canal scheme, passed in 2013, has catalysed opposition to President Ortega, who is seen to be using the project to boost his reputation. This book asks the questions: what are the possible economic benefits that the Canal will offer the country? What damage might the Canal will do to the environment, particularly to Lake Cocibolca, the largest source of freshwater in Central America? The Nicaragua Grand Canal explores the geopolitics of the project, especially the significance of China’s involvement. The final sections of the book examine resistance to the Canal proposal from within Nicaragua. Although popular with the wider population, the Canal proposal has been greeted by protests particularly by peasant farmers whose land will be expropriated and by indigenous groups whose lives will be irrevocably altered by the Canal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPractical Action Publishing
    Release dateOct 15, 2015
    ISBN9781909014114
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    The Nicaragua Grand Canal: Economic Miracle or Folie de Grandeur?
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    Russell White

    I was born August 2 1946 at the Grace hospital in ST. John’s Newfoundland, my given names are Russell Kelvin and White was my fathers surname, my mother’s maiden name is Peyton, which I prefer instead of kelvin, so perhaps I could call myself Peyton White since I’m now an author I could adopt it as my pen name. I attended grammar school, kindergarten to grade 5 at Holloway School on L’ Marchant road in ST. John’s, it reminds me of Hogwarts from the Harry Potter series by J K Rowling. I then attended Prince of Wales College also on L’ Marchant road in St. John’s for junior high (grades 6 7 8) and senior high (Grades 9 10 11) I then graduated from Prince of Wales College in June of 1962, I was 16 yrs. old. I then worked for two years at Brookfield Ice Cream also on L’ Marchant road in St. John’s as a stockroom clerk in the freezer rooms after which I attended The Newfoundland College of Trades & Technology to become an electronic technologist. I then hired on with IBM Canada to be an electronic service technician and in 1967 I moved to Winnipeg Manitoba to start my career as a Customer Engineer servicing all sorts of electromechanical devices that IBM produced in its manufacturing plants and sold to businesses for mainly accounting purposes. After 18 years I left IBM to try to start a business which failed so I worked for smaller businesses until 1993 and moved to Thompson Manitoba where I started working for Manitoba Lotteries servicing vlt terminals, I retired from that job in 2019 after 24 years. I will be 75 years old on the 2 of August 2021 and I’m looking forward to writing my memoirs in the next few years God willing I’m hoping they might be of interest to someone other than myself. Maybe I’ll have some sort of income from them to sustain myself and my wife Rose. I don’t drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, and I don’t use cannabis or any other sort of drugs after 75 yrs. of struggle I’ve learned to stop killing myself and start loving the temple God gave me.

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