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Mining

 People goaded to save their forests

Fed up with government inaction on mining and deforestation in the Aravallis, the people of the region are taking it upon themselves to end the degradation.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
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Aravalli Range, Mining, Deforestation
India

 Illegal mining stages a comeback

Mining inside and on the boundary of Sariska National Park in Rajasthan's Alwar district has resumed despite a Supreme Court ban. Enquiries with the Zilla Khaniz Udyog Sangh (ZKUS), the local mine

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Mining, Sariska NP, India, Rajasthan
India

 Bhopal gas victims fade into the background

Most candidates for the Bhopal North constituency are ready to overlook the fate of victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment, Forests, Mining, Betwa, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Political Parties, India, Delhi, Rajasthan, River Pollution
India

 Stuck in small pockets

Several colony specific environmental problems surfaced during the election campaign in Delhi and that's where they remained.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment, Forests, Mining, Betwa, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Political Parties, India, Delhi, Rajasthan, River Pollution
India

 The right issue, the wrong place

The pollution of Betwa river figured prominently in the election campaign in two constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, but was ignored in the worst hit villages.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Environment, Forests, Mining, Betwa, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Political Parties, India, Delhi, Rajasthan, River Pollution
Mining

 Licence opposed

THE ENVIRONMENTAL Foundation Ltd (EFL) of Sri Lanka has threatened the country's Central Environment Authority (CEA) with legal action for becoming an "advocate for industrialists" by granting

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Tags:
Environment, Sri Lanka
Mining

 Reaching the limits to growth

THE PACIFIC island-state of Nauru, once abundant in phosphates deposited by birds, now lies devastated and desolate. Most of the phosphate was mined by Australia and royalties made the Nauruans one

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
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Environment, Compensation, Birds, Australia, Nauru, Mining
Mining

 Indian massacre

IN BRAZIL'S worst such incident in nearly a century, gold miners illegally prospecting on the Yanomami reservation are believed to have massacred, with machetes and guns, 73 Indian tribals.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
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Mining, Gold, Tribals, Conflicts, Brazil
India

 A close look at mining fallouts

Despite the brouhaha for and against mining in Rajasthan, neither side supports its arguments with scientific evidence. An environmental impact assessment of Bijolia mining district by former Geological Survey of India director M L Jhanwar and N K Mahala

Publication Date: 
30/08/1993
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Ecology, Aravalli Range, Mining, Rural Habitat, Conflicts, India
India

 Trapped in the past

The town of Makrana disproves the contention that development will automatically result from mining activity

Publication Date: 
30/08/1993
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Ecology, Aravalli Range, Mining, Rural Habitat, Conflicts, India

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