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Amended liability bill leaves much to be desired

August 25, 2010

Ahead of the upcoming elections in Bihar, Greenpeace, Bihar Times and Civil Society Groups highlight Energy need of the state

August 25, 2010

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Six Greenpeace activists were detained today for a peaceful protest outside the Parliament against the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010. Greenpeace activists climbed lamp posts in front of Parliament with banners reading "People Before Profit" to seek attention of the Members of Parliament and persuade them to stop passage of the anti-people and pro corporate nuclear liability bill, which is being tabled in the Lok Sabha today. Greenpeace has been demanding unlimited liability. Even the increase to 1500 crores in the liability amount by the Government still means that the compensation is capped and therefore unconstitutional. If countries like Germany, Finland and Japan can have unlimited liability there is no reason why a country like India, with such massive expansion plans, cannot. Enlarge Image

Amended liability bill leaves much to be desired

August 25, 2010

On the day when the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha, Greenpeace activists climbed lamp posts in the high security area in front of Parliament with banners reading “People Before Profit”. The protest was carried out to remind parliamentarians that their first responsibility was to the people of the country and not companies selling nuclear technology and components.

Ahead of the upcoming elections in Bihar, Greenpeace, Bihar Times and Civil Society Groups highlight Energy need of the state

August 25, 2010

In one of the first interventions of its kind in Bihar, Greenpeace, Bihar Times and Civil Society Groups of the state today asked political leadership to end the energy crisis by committing to a policy change for adoption of Decentralized Renewable Energy.

Cabinet approval of BRAI bill 2010- a blow to the public vote against Bt Brinjal

August 17, 2010

Greenpeace today condemned the UPA Cabinet approval to Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill 2010 and appealed to all political parties to oppose it from being tabled and passed in Parliament .

Greenpeace India launches “Living Soils” campaign; call to save soils from harmful impacts of chemical fertilizers

August 03, 2010

Greenpeace India today launched “Living Soils”, a nationwide campaign with a call to implement Government policies to save soils from the harmful impacts of chemical fertilizers. This campaign assumes significance in the context of the Central Government acknowledging1the agrarian crisis due to soil degradation and initiating a reform in its fertilizer subsidy policy. As part of the campaign, a series of social audits will be organized in selected districts of Assam, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Karnataka.

TATA plea for injunction against Greenpeace listed for consideration on August 12

July 30, 2010

Delhi High Court today granted Greenpeace India 10 days time to file a written reply in the defamation and trademark infringement suit filed by TATA & Sons. The Court has listed the matter for August 12 to consider TATAs application for grant of an interim injunction against Greenpeace India’s ‘Turtle vs TATA’ pacman-inspired online game.

People’s consultation rejects the nuclear liability bill

July 06, 2010

The first public consultation on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage bill 2010 held in Hyderabad today, charged the bill with being the facilitator of corporate immunity.

Mumbai voices against nuclear liability bill

July 08, 2010

Consultation on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 held today at the University of Mumbai charged that the bill acts as a facilitator of corporate immunity rather than a protector of peoples fundamental rights.

16,000 Indians join Nobel Laureates to demand Justice for the ‘Tokyo Two’

July 01, 2010

More than 16,000 Indians have joined Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams in calling for justice for Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki. The duo, famously known as the Tokyo Two, face up to 18 months in jail for exposing corruption in the Japanese government’s whaling industry (1). The call comes even as a stalemate at the recently concluded annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission at Agadir, Morocco jeopardizes the future of thousands of whales. The 88 member states of the IWC failed to find consensus on the chair’s proposal (2) and failed to agree on bringing about an end to all commercial whaling.

Improved patrolling leads to lower turtle mortality, record nesting at Devi

June 25, 2010

An evaluation of the turtle season from November 2009-May 2010 by Greenpeace has revealed a sharp reduction of 60% in turtle mortality in the Devi region, signifying better management of Orissa’s coastal fisheries by the state government (1). The analysis highlights the progress made in terms of fiscal and governance mechanisms as well as action on ground.

Public consultation on liability bill too constrained: Greenpeace

June 25, 2010

In an inadequate and feeble attempt towards including people’s voices on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology has given just 15 days for “wider consultations”.

Environment Ministry’s Pre-draft CRZ Notification 2010 rejected by fishermen, environmentalists

June 18, 2010

The National Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC), a collective comprising of a broad range of fishworker groups including the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), fishworker support organisations and environmental groups jointly rejected the Ministry of Environment’s ‘pre-draft’ CRZ 2010 notification for being anti-people, anti-environment and pro-industry (1). Most of the concerns and issues raised during the public consultation process undertaken by Minister Jairam Ramesh between August 2009 and March 2010 have been ignored in the ‘pre-draft’, despite assurances from the Minister that these would be taken on board.

Organic farming gives Indian farmers greater financial security

June 15, 2010

A Greenpeace report released today said the monetary benefits of organic cotton farming are much greater than using the Genetically Engineered variety that makes farmers more vulnerable to financial collapse due to high debts and increased costs of cultivation. The report titled “Picking Cotton - The choice between organic and genetically-engineered cotton for farmers in South India’ shows that in the year 2009-10 farmers cultivating cotton through organic practices earned 200% more net income than farmers who grew Genetically Engineered cotton [Bt cotton].

Picking Cotton: The choice between organic and genetically-engineered cotton for farmers in South India

June 14, 2010

There is widespread propaganda that genetically-engineered (GE) crops provide the silver bullet for poverty and hunger eradication. On the other hand, recent global analyses have concluded that ecological farming - using low-cost, locally available and agro-ecological technologies – is effectively reaching the same aim.

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Greenpeace activists in Delhi unfurl a banner in front of the Gyarah Murti statue to compare Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience to the work our activists in Japan have undertaken. Enlarge Image

On World Oceans Day, India demands Justice for whales and their defenders

June 08, 2010

In an expression of solidarity with Japan’s ‘Tokyo Two’ undertrials, Greenpeace today unfurled a banner saying “Activism is Not a Crime” at the capital’s ‘Gyarah Murti’ sculpture, depicting the Dandi March led by Mahatma Gandhi. Choosing World Oceans Day, Greenpeace activists demanded justice for activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki.

Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics: India’s Wipro is No.1

May 28, 2010

Version 9 of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics (1) has Azim Premji–led Wipro sharing the number one position with the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturer Nokia while Samsung, Toshiba and Dell have earned penalty points.

Draft E-waste Rule is Progressive and Inclusive: Greenpeace

May 25, 2010

Greenpeace today called for a swift adoption of the Draft E-Waste (Management & Handling) Rule, 2010 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and said that it was by far the most progressive and fundamentally robust framework created by a range of stakeholders to tackle the menace of e-waste.

Greenpeace activists put up warning signs around contaminated areas after radiation experts found high levels of radiation at Mayapuri, Delhi. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace re-views decontamination of Mayapuri “hot-spots”

May 19, 2010

The Greenpeace team of radiation experts revisited the Mayapuri scrap yard to check the levels of radiation after a decontamination effort by authorities (1) on Sunday, May 16th. The authorities were forced to take immediate decontamination action after Greenpeace identified ‘hotspots’(2) with dangerous levels of radiation, including two places which had levels higher than 5000 times normal background.

New Delhi, May 14, 2010. Greenpeace radiation experts Stan Vincent and Jan Vande Putte survey the Mayapuri scrap market in Delhi. Radiation from a Cobalt 60 source killed one person and injured six persons in the western Delhi metal scrap market of Mayapuri. The cobalt 60 was sourced to pencils from a gamma irradiator machine that was sold by Delhi University to scrap dealers. The International Atomic Energy Agency has termed it as a Level 4 accident. Enlarge Image

Mayapuri is still a radiation hazard zone: Greenpeace Field Survey

May 14, 2010

Early this morning, a team of two radiological experts from Greenpeace began a combing operation at the Mayapuri scrap market and discovered that there is radiation risk to people at Mayapuri scrapyard in the immediate vicinity of the shop that has been the focus of attention in the last weeks . The investigation has identified at least 6 hotspots with one of them showing more than 5000 times natural background radiation[1].


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