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Dark side of mining [1]

The reality of Orissa's iron ore mines, where the promise of prosperity is just empty rhetoric.

Hundreds of hectares of forests have been lost to mining over the years in a situation where encroachments are impossible to monitor. The most common illegality is to continue mining long after the lease has ended.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2007
Frontline (Chennai) [2]
Tags:
Pollution [3], Mining [4], Baitarni [5], Forest Act 1980 [6], Orissa (Odisha) [7], Keonjhar (D) [8]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/frontline-chennai
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pollution
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/baitarni
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-act-1980
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/keonjhar-d