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Orissa: Are the Niyamgiri tribals against mining project?
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
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The environment ministry has decided to shut down Vedanta's mining project. The tribals in Niyamgiri has mixed opinions. Many of them oppose the mining most emphatically, pointing out that Vedanta is looking after its own interests. But, in village of Phuldumur, where Vedanta has built a school and a centre for vocational training, favours industrialisation, reports CNBC-TV18. |
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Politics pollutes the environment
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Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
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Fake environmentalists are criminals and fake environmental concerns a crime against India. This is what is happening in Niyamgiri. It is disturbing that rahul Gandhi went there and made a speech on rich India versus poor India. In our socialist past, there was a clash between environmental concerns and develoipment. There is no such necessary clash. In the present world Vedanata will be vilified in the forums of the world. 99 percent of environmentalist NGO's are fake, and it is sad that they have too much power over the Government, and the man who is to become the Prime Minister, writes Tavleen Singh in The Indian Express.
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Govt plans to overhaul mining sector
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
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Vested interests are controlling the mining industry,as said by former Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde . India registered over 182,000 cases of illegal mining across 17 states in the last five years alone. Andhra Pradesh alone registered 110 per cent increase in illegal maining cases.The proposed amendment to the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act plans to tackle the issue of illegal mining, writes Sudheer Pal Singh in Business Standard. |
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Sonia Gandhi on mining
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
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Illegal mining has profound implications for Naxal-hit States'Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said it had “profound political, economic and social implications” in States affected by tribal deprivation and left-wing extremism, reports The Hindu. |
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India's new Avatar: Pitting people against mining
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
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Calling someone "an NGO" is an expression of scorn and resentment in India's corridors of power.Mukesh Kumar, said of N.C. Saxena, member of the powerful National Advisory Council and former bureaucrat that 'He is ignoring all the documents and clearances, he is talking like an NGO!' A recent report acknowledges that mining will affect the Dongaria Kondh, a primitive tribe which is likened to Na'vi in the movie Avatar, writes Samar Halarnker in Hindustan Times.
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Industry is opposed to giving stake to tribal population
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Friday, August 13, 2010 |
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The Industry is opposing the Government proposal to give stake to tribal population.The recommendations of a Group of Ministers were toshare 26 per cent equity or profits (after tax) with the locals and tribals.FICCI is vigorously opposing the bill.“It will break the back of the mining industry.Neither 26 per cent profit after tax nor 26 per cent equity is acceptable,” said Siddharth Rungta,chairman, FICCI Steel Committee, reports Business Standard. |
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Mining companies asked to give equity share to tribal communities
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
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Mining companies will have to give 26 percentage of their equity to tribals.The Union mines ministry will recommend this to the Empowered Group of Ministers on the new Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act on Wednesday.The proposed bill's provisions for sharing the wealth besides environmental levy and other taxes are in order to check abnormal super profits as well as run the operation sustainability. FICCI is against it, reports The Times Of India. |
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Forests and sanctuaries hold 40% of iron ore
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 |
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India, which produced 57 MT of steel in 2007, targets addition of another 50 MT in the next four years and 200 MT by 2020. Nearly 40 per cent of the country's reserve fall in magnetite categories, located in reserve forest belts or wildlife sanctuaries. Stringent forest acts and acute scarcity of coking coal seemed to be the major hurdles towards the growth of the steel industry in the country, reports Economic Times |
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Mineral rich Chhota Nagpur, Poverty ridden people
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 |
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Nine mega-projects in the mineral-rich Chhota Nagpur plateau, need 40,000 acres. At stake is annual production of 48.10 million tonnes of steel, in addition to alumina and aluminium. To put it in perspective, the country currently produces around 32 million tonnes of steel. While these projects may create 170,000 jobs, directly and indirectly, thousands of families will have to be displaced. The messy issues related to land acquisition, rehabilitation of people, mining rights and plain politics have impacted the projects and the people, writes Dillip Satapathy in the Business Standard |
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