Bechtel

n April of 2000, in the central plaza of the beautiful old Andean city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, the body of Víctor Hugo Daza lay on a makeshift bier. Daza, a seventeen-year-old student, had been shot in the face by the Army during protests sparked by an increase in local water rates.

It is a well kept secret that Bechtel won a contract to privatize the water in Ecuador\'s largest city, Guayaquil, just months after the massive citizen protests that threw Bechtel out of Bolivia.

2000-07-20 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco -- A proposal to give a Bechtel-led group $45 million to oversee the multibillion-dollar rebuilding of San Francisco's water system was beaten down yesterday by a supervisors committee that refused to approve the deal without more information

COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI – Forty years ago, Consumers Power Co. filed a $300 million lawsuit against Bechtel Power Corp. and four other companies, charging them with delivering "defective equipment."

San Onofre's two nuclear reactors can generate 2,200 megawatts of electricity when operating at full power, enough to supply 1.4 million households.

•Southern California Edison owns 78 percent of the plant, SDG&E 20 percent and the city of Riverside 2 percent.

Bechtel Corporation is one of the largest closely held companies in this country.

It reported more than $37 billion of revenue in 2014, and it employs 55,000 people around the world.

Bechtel raised the Bay Bridge and assembled the Hoover Dam. The San Francisco company extinguished the oil well fires in Kuwait and dug tunnels for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. Its workers have laid 50,000 miles of pipeline and built 17,000 miles of roadway in 140 countries.

2002-02-02 04:00:00 PDT Cochabamba, Bolivia -- In a Goliath-versus-David face-off, Bechtel Group of San Francisco, the largest private company in the Bay Area, is taking legal action against the government of Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere.