NY Times, Sept. 17, 2002
U.S. Will Get Power, and Pollution, From Mexico
By TIM WEINER
MEXICALI, Mexico, Sept. 11 American companies have long faced intense
resistance to big new power plants from communities crying, Not in my
backyard.
Now they have a big new backyard: Mexico.
Here on
I spoke to the Mexican Senate's Commission on Constitutional Points on August
28th on Vicente Fox's initiative to open the Mexican electric power system to
foreign investment.
President Fox needs one or two constitutional amendments to really open
things up. A coalition of the PRI and the
