Tag: mining

‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village

By Ankur Paliwal In a pristine forest in central India, the multibillion-dollar mining giant Adani has razed trees – and homes – to dig more coal. How does this kind of destruction get the go-ahead? In a lined notebook, Bhole Nath Singh Armo, a lean 28-year-old man wearing a blue shirt and matching baseball cap, drew a… Read More ‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village

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सांसों में सिलिका- हर साल इस बीमारी से हो रही हजारों मजदूरों की मौत

हृदयेश जोशी #Silicosis कार्यस्थल पर होने वाली एक जानलेवा बीमारी है जिसे “मौत का कुंआं” भी कहा जाता है. सिलिका मिश्रित धूल फेफड़ों में जाने से मजदूर बीमार हो जाते हैं. भारत में हर साल हजारों मजदूर इस बीमारी के कारण दम तोड़ रहे हैं. देश में सिलिकोसिस पीड़ितों की सही संख्या का अंदाजा नहीं… Read More सांसों में सिलिका- हर साल इस बीमारी से हो रही हजारों मजदूरों की मौत

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Terry Bell: South Africa is teetering on the brink of an abyss

The past few weeks have highlighted more clearly than ever, that the authority and the rule of law within South Africa’s constitutional parliamentary dispensation has gone beyond merely fraying at the edges.  Also how confusion can be spread, with potentially dangerous consequences, by the manipulation of news. This manipulation becomes possible because there are too… Read More Terry Bell: South Africa is teetering on the brink of an abyss

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Tarushi Aswani: Government Assents to Coal Mining in Hasdeo Forests in Central India – tribal women continue their resistance against destruction of forests

A decade of resistance against mining activity, displacement, and deforestation met with defeat on April 6, when the Chhattisgarh government gave its final assent for felling of trees and commencement of mining activity in Hasdeo in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Back in 2011, the gram sabha (village assembly) of Ghatbarra village in the Hasdeo… Read More Tarushi Aswani: Government Assents to Coal Mining in Hasdeo Forests in Central India – tribal women continue their resistance against destruction of forests

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Myanmar- ‘Quick profits’: Activists fear for environment under military rule

There are already signs that the coup has prompted an increase in illegal mining and logging, and regime economic policies are set to compound the environmental destruction at a time when activists and communities are unable to push back. Within months of the February 2021 coup, there were already signs that military rule could have… Read More Myanmar- ‘Quick profits’: Activists fear for environment under military rule

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen: In anticipation of India’s largest coal mining project (Photos)

With India’s largest coal mining project slated to come up in West Bengal, approximately 21,000 people will need to be relocated and rehabilitated. The government aims to make the Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harinsinga coal block a model project with sensitive land acquisition and appropriate compensation. The local people, however, are anxious and uncertain of the transition as their… Read More Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen: In anticipation of India’s largest coal mining project (Photos)

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RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

How is this a public hearing? Who are they hearing? The police or the barbed wires they have put to keep us out?   See video “In Mali Parbat we grow ice, mandia, kaangu (millets), harvest roots, tubers. Because of its mountain streams, our paddy ripens, our millets ripen.  We are able to collect firewood and produce to take… Read More RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

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Robin McKie: Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse?

Trillions of metallic nodules on the sea floor could help stop global heating, but mining them may damage ocean ecology   In a display cabinet in the recently opened Our Broken Planet exhibition in London’s Natural History Museum, curators have placed a small nugget of dark material covered with faint indentations. The blackened lump could easily be mistaken… Read More Robin McKie: Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse?

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