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 What class do you need to travel business class?

to fly business class one must look and behave like a businessman. Santraj Maurya did not have that demeanour. He really couldn't have. Picking waste from Delhi's roads doesn't really bestow one

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Uranium, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Andhra Pradesh
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
S Ramakrishna
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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
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Uranium, Pennar, Health Effects, Radiation, Tamil Nadu
Mining

 Snail dies in captivity in New Zealand

One of the giant snails controversially translocated to New Zealand's West Coast has died. The creature was one of the 367 rare Powelliphanta augustus snails, which were moved from their natural

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
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Mining, Endangered Species, Fauna, Power Industry, New Zealand
Environment

 IN COURT

Oil lease sale blocked: In a preliminary ruling, a US federal court has recently blocked the US administration's plan to allow oil companies, access to the sensitive wetlands near the vast Teshekpuk

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14/10/2006
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Environment, Forests, Wetlands, Mining, Ecology, Afforestation, Coal, Compensation, Oil Exploration, Petrochemical Industry, Supreme Court, United States Of America (US), Arctic, India, Forest Management
Economy

 IN SHORT

green gdp: According to the China Green National Accounting Study Report 2004, the country suffered economic losses to the tune of US $64 billion

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
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Environment Economics, Pollution, Economy, Maternal Health, Rehabilitation, Child Health, DDT, Pesticide Residues, Research, China, Spain, India, Jharkhand, Mining
Mining

 Gold mine spills cyanide in Ghana

Following two cyanide spills at the Bogoso-Prestea mines in western Ghana in less than two years, residents of the area and several organisations are now calling for a total audit of all operations

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
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River Pollution, Mining, Gold, Ghana
Mining

 Not in sync

AP court stays bauxite mining

Publication Date: 
14/08/2006
C Balaji
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Mining, Bauxite, Tribals
Mining

 Papua New Guinea cabinet votes against copper mine

A daily newspaper of Papua New Guinea recently said cabinet members voted to shut down a copper mine situated in the Star mountains. The mine is operated by Ok Tedi Mining Limited. This decision

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
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Mining

 Mining strike

The Mexican National Mining and Metal Workers Union representing four million workers recently gave strike notices to the labour department's arbitration board. More than 200 Mexican organisations

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
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