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MSS prevents Essar officials from demarcating trees in Mahan’s forest
Violating the rights of the people of Mahan, Essar’s officials have been marking trees to demarcate forest areas about to get the axe. On May 5, the officials came up…
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Van Satyagraha: Community members confront Essar officials
Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, May 6, 2014: Eighty local community members successfully stopped work on an Essar-led coal mine in Mahan forest, Madhya Pradesh yesterday. The villagers oppose the mine, which…
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Greenpeace demands urgent assessment of water diversion to thermal power plants
April 28, 2014: Last week, amid the prediction of a weak monsoon in Maharashtra in 2014, the Water Resources Department released its weekly report on the current water availability in…
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‘Pledge to Save Mahan on Earth Day’ Young urban volunteers come together in a show of support to save Mahan forests in Singrauli
April 22, 2014, New Delhi: On the occasion of Earth Day, several young volunteers came together in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore in a show of support to save Mahan…
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Toxic Waste Spill at Essar’s Power Plant in Singrauli
April 15, 2014, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh: In yet another stark example of massive negligence, the mud-wall that lined the fly ash dyke of Essar Energy’s Mahan-I (600 MW) thermal power…
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Marking 3 years of TEPCO’s Fukushima disaster, leading anti-nuclear activists and Greenpeace demand stringent safety & unlimited n-liability, as they bring back the stories from the region
New Delhi, 10th March 2014: Leading antinuclear activists and Greenpeace raised their pitch against the government’s move to bypass supplier liability provisions in their full spirit, in current negotiations with…
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Activists slam Veerappa Moily for putting corporate profits before nation’s interests
New Delhi, March 4th, 2014: Activists from Greenpeace India along with members of Coalition for a GM Free India today registered a strong protest against the way the Union Minister…
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Mahan Villagers begin their Peaceful Van Stayagraha. Villagers in Mahan move their fight into the forests; Van Satyagraha to continue till Essar Quits Mahan
Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh| February 27, 2014| Thousands of villagers including a large number of women and children from 12-14 villages in the Mahan region of Singrauli came together for a…
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Procter & Gamble brings rainforest destruction into bathrooms, says Greenpeace
New Delhi/Jakarta, 26 February 2014 – Procter & Gamble, which makes Head & Shoulders, is sourcing palm oil from companies connected to orangutan habitat clearance in Indonesia, making consumers part…
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Greenpeace Activists Embarrass Moily and Essar
14th February, New Delhi: Today, on Valentine’s Day, as the environment minister Veerappa Moily hobnobbed with head honchos of leading companies including Essar Oil and Essar Foundation, Greenpeace India staged…
