The 26% Trick – From ‘Mining Social Equity`
To ‘Minefield Of Inequity`
By Sadanand Patwardhan
06 July, 2011
Satark
Bijoy Krishna Handique was Minister of Mines from May 2009 to January 2011 of this
year. During his tenure at the helm, he gave a new direction to the country`s mining
policy. He proposed that 26% of the *equity* or *prof...  more>>

Commentary / FROM THE STATES
Paan or POSCO?
By: Banikanta Mishra, birendra Kumar Nayak
Vol XLVI No.26 June 25, 2011
With a growing betel vine sector as well as thriving paddy cultivation and fishing, it is no
wonder that villagers in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district have resisted the state
government’s forceful acquisition of land for the POSCO pro...  more>>

Mineral mining surge threatens India`s forests
30 Jun 2011 11:55
Source: alertnet // Manipadma Jena

By Manipadma Jena

BHUBANESWAR, India (AlertNet) - India faces a tough choice between preserving its forests and digging up the valuable minerals that lie beneath them. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Orissa State - home to 35...  more>>

Report from Dhanbad Coal Fields :  GurgaonWorkersNews
Dhanbad, India – Report from a Visit in the Coal Fields
Following report was written after a two weeks visit in Dhanbad-Jharia, one of the main coal mining areas in India. Seeing the area and talking to the coal-mining comrades of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist-Leninist) was insightful and inspired us to dig a...  more>>

Features
Bringing Canadian mining to justice
Karyn Keenan
2011-06-22, Issue 536
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/74254

Canadian mining interests in countries around the world are valued at tens of billions of dollars. Karyn Keenan looks at efforts by local communities to hold mining companies to account for human rights abuses. `The issue of access ...  more>>

Expropriation of Land and Cultures : The Odisha Story and Beyond

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TEARING THROUGH THE WATER LANDSCAPE

Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of POSCO project in Odisha, India
A Study prepared at the request of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samithi Jagatsinghpur District Odisha
by Leo F. Saldanha and Bhargavi S. Rao
Environment Support Group®
Environmental, Soci...  more>>

Coal distribution network through bicycles in eastern India
Published: October 16, 2008, 3:42 pm
Edited: October 16, 2008, 3:42 pm
Lead Authors: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, David Williams

Abstract
A characteristic of the Jharia–Raniganj coalfields area is the sight ...  more>>

Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing: Substantive and Procedural
Injustices relating to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights...

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 Profile
And She Wore Iron
Cheryl D’Souza, unlikely green warrior, takes on south Goa’s mining mafia
Aimee Ginsburg on Cheryl D’Souza

We are in Cheryl D’Souza’s Gypsy and she’s driving like the devil’s on her tail. D’Souza’s long brown hair blows in the win...  more>>