South Korean giant Posco’s integrated steel plant in Orissa, India, could face another hurdle as the palli sabhas (local bodies set up to determine forest rights under the Forest Rights Act) of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and …
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Posco faces another hurdle if local bodies clear forest rights
Last updated: Apr 20, 2011
Miners go for gold – but investors shun the glittering prizes
Last updated: Apr 4, 2011
Last month’s Fraser Institute report on mining (2009/2010) showed that more than 43% of mining company respondents rated gold as their number one targeted commodity.
However, just three weeks later, a survey carried out by …
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Uranium Meltdown in Japan
Last updated: Mar 18, 2011
As this story was being written, reports from Japan suggest that a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in two reactors at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station may not be averted. Japanese officials …
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Posco Project Faces Fresh Protest
Last updated: Mar 18, 2011
For Posco India, trouble for its proposed 12 million tonne steel project seems to be far from over. The South Korean steel major, which has been encountering strong opposition for five years despite key government …
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India: Scandalous Decision allows go-ahead for POSCO project
Last updated: Feb 9, 2011
The Indian Summers are finally over. Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister, has betrayed earlier expectations (boosted particularly by his decision last year to ban Vedanta’s Nyamgiri mine) that he would put people and environment before …
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BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power
Last updated: May 26, 2010
BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active …
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Giant mines scramble to cut output
Last updated: Nov 25, 2008
Mining companies – which couldn’t dig minerals out of the earth fast enough just a few months ago – are now struggling to climb out of a very deep hole. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=8933…
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