Health Effects

IN SHORT

yes, radio: On November 17, 2006 the government approved an expansion of community radio stations by non-profit organisations. Applicants need to have a standing of at least three years.

Publication Date:

14/12/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061215

pp:

0

Tags:

Marine Ecosystems, Land Resources, Health Effects, Economy, Nuclear Power, Displacement, Conflicts, Industry, Radio, Supreme Court, NGO, Egypt, Russia, India, West Bengal

Industry

Poor regulators do not a rich country make

IN this past month, farmer associations in Haryana and Tamil Nadu have located and burnt field trials for genetically modified Bt rice. In Chhattisgarh the state government has stopped similar trials

Publication Date:

14/12/2006

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061215

pp:

14

Tags:

Agriculture, Pesticides, Rice, Food Standards, Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, Conflicts, Finance, Industry, Science, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Research, Information, India

Fisheries

Protests against crude production in Peru

Argentina's biggest oil facility and natural gas producer Pluspetrol has come to a standstill following protests by the indigenous Achuar groups in Peru, who say that crude production is

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061115

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Oil Pollution, Amazon, Health Effects, Tropical Forests, Waste Disposal, Tribals, Petrochemical Industry, Argentina, Peru

India

White asbestos finds backers at Rotterdam Convention

another attempt to bring chrysotile, the most common form of asbestos, under the prior informed consent list (pic) of the Rotterdam Convention has failed. Parties to this international treaty

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Author(s): Kushal P S Yadav

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Asbestos, Health Effects, Canada, Cancer, Trade, Hazardous Products, Occupational Health, Asbestosis, Industry, Supreme Court, India

Mining

Andhra uranium mining project gives locals short shrift

widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Author(s): S Ramakrishna

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Uranium, Health Effects, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Conflicts, Compensation, Human Rights, Politics, India, Andhra Pradesh, Nalgonda (D)

Mining

Project voices

MAUP view MECON consultants, who made the EIA, were influenced by DAE and UCIL EIA hasn't considered alternatives UCIL doesn't have technology for getting

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Uranium, Pennar, Health Effects, Radiation, Tamil Nadu

Industry

Periyar river's pollution is Eloor's bane

a people's Right Declaration Convention held on September 17, 2006, at Eloor

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Author(s): M Suchitra

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

River Pollution, Periyar, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, Compensation, DDT, Endosulfan, Industry, India, Kerala

Industry

Comic film on workings of big business tobacco industry

Smoking

Publication Date:

29/09/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Effects, Smoking, Industry, Media, Cinema

Agriculture

Phorate poisoning affects people in Jalandhar, Punjab

In the last week of July, most of the residents in the village Salkiana in Jalandhar, Punjab, experienced suffocation and breathlessness, following the spray of a deadly pesticide phorate in a nearby

Publication Date:

14/09/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060915

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Pesticides, Health Effects, Child Health, Punjab

India