Environment

Manmohan extends support to Bhopal victims

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday extended support and sympathy to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy that occurred 25 years ago.

Publication Date: 
03/12/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Drinking Water, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Toxic Wastes
Hazardous Waste

Gas tragedy: public to pay for toxic waste clean-up

Who should pay to clean up the 386 tonnes of hazardous waste lying around in the Union Carbide factory

Publication Date: 
03/12/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Toxic Wastes
Energy

An economic analysis of the nuclear liability subsidy

Energy markets are undergoing major change. They have to cope with a new economic environment and, at the same time, a new energy context. Indeed, on the one hand, energy markets are undergoing deregulation with the aim of opening them to competition. They are also submitted to priva-tisation policies, which progressively detach them from the government’s hold.

Publication Date: 
02/12/2009
Michael G. Faure, Karine Fiore
Pace Environmental Law Review
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Tags:
Climate Change, Energy Policy, Nuclear Power, Compensation, Energy, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Wastes, Subsidies, Legislation, France, United States Of America (US)
Environment

Key legal cases on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and its aftermath

This fact sheet contains major legal cases concerning Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Bhopal, Waste Disposal, Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, CSE, India
Climate Change

Chinese dam under fire, but Germany in the hot seat

When a dam developer claims that 97% of the people it surveyed are satisfied with their compensation, take it with a large grain of salt. Back in November 2008, International Rivers hired a consultant to visit the site of the Xiaoxi Dam on the Zishui River in China.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Katy Yan
World Rivers Review
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Dams, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Hydroelectricity, Carbon Offset, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Displacement, Compensation, Power Industry, China, Germany
Environment

25 years after Bhopal Gas Disaster: a selection of news (Jan 2006 - Dec 2009)

On December 3, 1984, toxic poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL's) pesticide plant in Bhopal. The gas leak triggered a disaster that is now widely

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, CSE, India, Toxic Wastes
Hazardous Waste

Bhopal 25later years: all papers in order, but denied their due

an 80-Yr-Old Still Queues Up For Relief
Suchandana Gupta | TNN

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health Effects, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D)
Habitat And Urbanisation

India infrastructure report 2009: land - a critical resource for infrastructure

Land is the heart of infrastructure development. The first India Infrastructure Report (IIR), which was brought out in 2001, identified the process of land acquisition as the most important structural constraint to the development of infrastructure. This IIR 2009 to examine various facets of

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Oxford University Press
Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Acquisition, Forest Act 1980, Displacement, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Land, Highways, Rehabilitation, Compensation, India, Oxford University Press, Infrastructure Development, New Delhi, Habitat And Urbanisation
Agriculture

Keonjhar farmers threaten mass suicide

The farmers of the different villages in Salabania gram panchayat in Keonjhar district in a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik have stated that if their demands are not met by November 26 they would commit mass suicide.

Publication Date: 
26/11/2009
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Compensation, Orissa (Odisha), Keonjhar (D)
Land

No troublemaker, this land

The chief secretary, Mr AM Chakrabarti today indicated that the land at Singur, currently under the possession of Tata Motors would not pose any problems for potential investors. According to chief secretary, the land was acquired and leased out to Tata Motors for a

Publication Date: 
24/11/2009
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
Land, Land Acquisition, Singur, Compensation, Tata Motors, West Bengal, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL)

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