WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

a German court convicted two former executives of paying about €6
million in bribes from 1999 to 2002 to help Siemens win natural gas
turbine supply contracts with Enel, an Italian energy company. The
contracts were valued at about €450 million. Siemens was fined €38
million.
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Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation
The joint venture of Voith and Siemens, which was founded in April
2000, will now be known as Voith Hydro. The corporation continues
to be a full-line supplier for advanced hydroelectric equipment and
technology, and the shares of both partners remain unchanged. More
than 40,000 generators and turbines have been installed worldwide by
Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation/Voith Hydro. It is the largest
supplier of such components for embankment projects worldwide.
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Suez S.A. (France)
Suez S.A. was a leading French-based multinational corporation, with
operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, as
well as waste management. Suez came into being as the result of a
1997 merger between the Compagnie de Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux,
a leading French water company. In the early 2000s, Suez also owned
some media and telecommunications assets, but has since divested
these. According to the Masons Water Yearbook 2004/05, Suez served
117∙4 million people around the world. Suez was (and continues to
be – via GDF Suez) one of the world’s oldest continuously-existing
multinational corporations. Prior to the GDF merger, Suez had
experienced almost two centuries of reorganisation and corporate
mergers. Its most recent name comes from the involvement of one
of its several founding entities – the Compagnie universelle du canal
maritime de Suez – in building the Suez Canal in the middle of the
19th century.
GDF SUEZ
The company conducted a merger of equals with fellow utility company
Gaz de France on July 22, 2008 to form GDF Suez. The water and waste
assets of Suez were spun off into a separate publicly-traded company,
Suez Environnement.
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