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Cluster of thermal power plants may escalate Vidarbha's existing agrarian crisis:...

Press release | August 7, 2012 at 17:07

New Delhi, 7th August 2012: In the backdrop of a drought looming over the country, a new report (1) released by Greenpeace has found that large clusters of coal fired power plants proposed in Vidarbha may bring down the future availability of...

Undermining Tadoba's Tigers

Publication | January 9, 2012 at 18:00

This report shows that Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) is fast becoming an isolated enclave, with landscape connectivity to neighbouring forest areas being interrupted by industrial projects, primarily coal mines.

Coal Kills

Publication | March 12, 2013 at 11:00

The first ever estimation of death and disease due to coal-fired power plants in India estimates between 85,000 to 115,000 people killed in 2011-12. Millions of cases of asthma and heart disease are also attributable to coal power emissions,...

Study of Impact of the Presidential Directive to Coal India

Publication | October 4, 2012 at 14:09

Greenpeace commissioned Equitorials, a financial research firm, to do an independent analysis of the financial impact of signing Fuel Supply Agreements(FSA) on Coal India Limited. This analysis has been done in the context of the Presidential...

Greenpeace: Indian Government must stop the destruction of vital biodiversity

Press release | October 10, 2012 at 22:24

Hyderabad/New Delhi, October 8, 2012, On the eve of a major international conference on biodiversity, hosted by the Indian Government, Greenpeace is demanding that the Indian government re-look its massive expansion of coal mining in forest areas...

Coal India investor brief

Publication | August 14, 2013 at 14:08

Coal India Ltd's shareholder value is threatened by poor corporate governance, faulty reserve estimations, regulatory risk and macro-economic issues.

'We will not allow Mining in Mahan’: Mahan Sangharsh Samiti

Press release | August 4, 2013 at 15:17

Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh/ August 4, 2013: Tribals from eleven villages around the Mahan forest area today held a rally – Van Adhikar Sammelan – to tell Essar they would not allow it to mine coal in their forests, just as their brothers and...

Coal India Running on Empty

Publication | September 23, 2013 at 15:50

Coal India Limited is misleading shareholders by concealing information on the level of its extractable reserves, which could be exhausted in 17 years. The company has failed to disclose to stock exchanges that its extractable coal reserves are...

Singrauli: The Coal Curse

Publication | September 15, 2011 at 16:54

Greenpeace organised a Fact Finding Mission to Singrauli – the energy capital of the country and home to tribal communities, forest dwellers and some of the most threatened forests remaining in Central India. The Singrauli region spreads across...

Coal mining threatens over 1.1 million ha. of forest, tiger, elephant habitat

Press release | August 1, 2012 at 20:10

August 1, 2012, New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Even as the environment ministry continues to come under renewed pressure to fast track coal mining in forest areas, a GIS analysis released by Greenpeace titled “How Coal Mining is Trashing Tigerland” shows...

Impact of Water Resources Projects-Case Study Wardha

Publication | August 8, 2012 at 18:30

Vidarbha region in Maharastra has a long history of under development. Many measures to offset the agrarian crisis in the region like the Prime Minister's debt relief assistance in 2006 has focussed extensively on developing assured irrigation...

सिंगरौंली के जंगल बचाने के समर्थक हैं फिल्म स्टार अभय देओल

Press release | January 11, 2012 at 17:17

नई दिल्ली / सिंगरौली, 11 जनवरी, 2012­- फिल्म अभिनेता अभय देओल भी आज ग्रीनपीस कार्यकर्ता बन गये। वह न केवल कोयला खनन के लिए जंगलों की बलि देने के खिलाफ चल रहे ग्रीनपीस के अभियान में शामिल हो गये बल्कि खतरे में पडे मध्य प्रदेश के सिंगरौली जिले में...

Joint letter to MoEF on Inviolate Criteria process

Publication | July 15, 2013 at 16:40

A joint letter to Minister of Forest and Environment, Ms. Jayanti Natarajan on the faulty and exclusionary process to determine criteria for the declaration if inviolate forest areas with respect to coal mining.

Fact finding team documents coal-induced displacement and destruction in Singrauli

Press release | September 15, 2011 at 17:00

New Delhi, 15 September, 2011: ‘Singrauli: The Coal Curse’ a report was released today by retired Justice Suresh Hosbet, a member of a Fact Finding team that visited the area in July this year. (1) The report documented the impacts of unbridled...

Hansraj Ahir, MP who unearthed Coalgate scam visits Brikesh Singh on the tree in...

Press release | September 25, 2012 at 13:04

September 22, 2012, Nagpur: Mr. Hansaraj Gangaram Ahir, the member of Parliament of Chandrapur, who pointed to the coal allocation scam way back in 2005, today joined Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh in his occupation of a tree in the Padmapur...

Indian Film Star Amala Akkineni joins Greenpeace protest

Press release | October 8, 2012 at 17:03

Hyderabad/New Delhi, October 8, 2012: Hours after Jayanthi Natarajan, the Minster of the Environment and Forests, opened the United Nations conference on biodiversity in Hyderabad, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner from the balcony of the...

CBD media briefing

Publication | October 11, 2012 at 13:13

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), with its 193 parties or delegates is the globe’s most important conference on protecting the planet’s diminishing biodiversity – It is the conference that covers life on earth and the use of the...

Campaign to save forests reaches the coal ministry's doorstep

Feature story | December 5, 2011 at 13:19

Anticipating high security and only a few minutes outside Shastri Bhawan, Greenpeace India activists successfully blocked the main gate of the Ministry of Coal office by placing 18 life size tigers chained to the gates. Three tiger mascots, 2...

Greenpeace to Prime Minister: Defend forests not coal scams

Press release | August 21, 2012 at 15:01

New Delhi, August 21, 2012: Even as Parliament was debating the CAG report, Greenpeace activists unfurled a giant 60 ft by 60 ft banner that said 'Dr Singh Defend Forests not Coal Scams' on Rajpath, the road leading to the PMO. The Environment...

Greenpeace activist to occupy a tree in Chandrapur forest for 1 month

Press release | August 29, 2012 at 16:35

August 29th, 2012, Nagpur: India is hosting the 11th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October this year to discuss conservation of biodiversity. “It is ironical that my government, which is writing...

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