MAJORITY OF POSCO ENQUIRY COMMITTEE CONFIRMS THAT POSCO PROJECT IS ILLEGAL

Today, three of the four members of the committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests confirmed that the POSCO project is illegal and that all of its clearances were obtained by breaking the law. The Committee has also found that the project has potentially very dangerous impacts on issues like water, air pollution, and the coastline, and none of this was ever properly evaluated. After a detailed discussion of the huge number of criminal actions by the company... Read More

FAULTLINES: Cracks in the Steel

MZPSG Newsletter No. 1, Oct 2010 Dear Friends, The issue of displacement for ‘development’ has plagued India ever since independence. All development projects involving large-scale displacement have in common the feature that those displaced are amongst the poorest of the poor people, and displacement robs them of their livelihood and reduces them to a state of penury. Recent years have seen a vibrant discussion on the costs (invariably borne by the poor, including those... Read More

CONDEMN THE ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK PRAFULLA SAMANTARA

On September 19, 2010, Prafulla Samantara, the well known activist intellectual from Orissa, was traveling to Katikela, a village in Jharsuguda in Orissa, where Vedanta is forcing people to leave their ancestral lands. The local people had invited him to address a meeting. The local villagers and activists informed him that there were several goondas of the company moving around in the village, threatening to attack Prafulla. Therefore, it was decided that the meeting should... Read More