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Arrested & Beaten Up: All for Saving Forests!
Over 150 people from 4 villages move into Mahan forests to protest against Essar You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.…
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Van Satyagrahis arrested, beaten in Mahan, MP
Van Satyagraha intensifies as over 150 villagers join protest against Essar mine, following the midnight arrest of two MSS members and two Greenpeace activists May 8, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh: Over…
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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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‘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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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…
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Moily stoops to favour Essar-Hindalco, grants Mahan forest clearance
12th February, New Delhi: Essar Energy has announced that it has received Stage II clearance for its Mahan coal block in Singrauli, even before any announcement was made by the…
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Greenpeace: Why does Essar want to protect Veerappa Moily? Bombay High Court rejects the company’s plea forbidding Greenpeace from demanding MoEF’s resignation
7th February, Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today rejected Essar Group’s plea to prevent Greenpeace from asking for the sacking of the Minister for Environment and Forest (MoEF) Veerappa Moily.…
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Greenpeace to respond to Essar’s ‘bullying’ legal suit. Greenpeace’s protest against Essar to expose the company’s violations in Mahan, Madhya Pradesh
27th January, 2014: Greenpeace India would take legal recourse to respond to the defamation suit of Rs. 500 crore filed by Essar. The company has filed the legal suit in…
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Greenpeace Activists Granted Bail After Being Detained By Mumbai Police.
January 23rd, Mumbai: After spending 24 hours at a police station, all 67 forest activists, who were detained last night for staging a peaceful protest at Essar’s Mumbai headquarters have…