Lukewarm response to Posco’s compensation offer

Business Standard / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar February 13, 2010, 0:00 IST The efforts of the district administration and Posco India to expedite land acquisition for the company’s Rs 54,000-crore steel project to be set up near Paradeep has turned out to be a dampener. Only 21 out of the 2200 odd families engaged in betel vines cultivation have applied for compensation by February 10, the deadline set by the district administration of Jagatsinghpur. “Out of 2200 families,... Read More

Film: PEOPLE’S RESISTANCE TO POSCO & Appeal by Film Makers

Film Makers: Mr.Nrusingha Behera, Mr. Debendra Swain A People’s Television Network Production Appeal by Film Makers: Dear friends, Two of us live in Orissa, part of 30,000 people from 11 villages being forced to sacrifice livelihood sources, natural environment and community culture of self-reliance, due to invasion of an aggressive South Korean company called POSCO. Our people oppose such invasion by this 52,000 crore project and we do not allow anybody from the company... Read More

Action Alert! CALL Naveen Patnaik/UN Behara Now

Dear all: Please do call the Orissa CM and Principal Sect Environment and Forests right away. Briefed talking points are also attached. PLS forward onto all relevant lists. We shd max calls in the next 24 hr period. PLS FORWARD widely and urge every friend to call. ———- Dear friend: We need your help urgently. As many of you are aware, the Korean Steel giant, POSCO (Pohang Steel) is touted to be moving forward with its plans building a steel mill in Jagatsingpura... Read More

Ground Zero

Dilip Bisoi Financial Express Posted online: Feb 07, 2010 at 1959 hrs From Bhubaneswar, it takes us five hours to reach Patna village, at the heart of Posco-India’s planned 12-million tonne steel plant. We find children playing with pebbles, but they aren’t at an innocuous game—they arrange tiny stones across the road when they see an approaching vehicle, imitating elders who routinely put up road blockades or gates to prevent entry of unknown vehicles. Patna falls within... Read More

URGENT! Fear of attack on Anti-POSCO movement

PRESS RELEASE: Balitutha, Orissa: The threat of state and company sponsored violence looms large over hundreds of farmers sitting on an indefinite dharna at Balitutha in Jagatsinghpur district against the Orissa government’s pet POSCO steel project. Since 26 January this year the farmers have been carrying out their peaceful protest against fresh attempts by the Naveen Patnaik regime to acquire their land on behalf of the South Korean steel corporation. “We are expecting... Read More