EJOLT Annual Meeting 2013 in Rome!
EJOLT unites leading legal experts and Environmental Justice activists in Rome Marking an important mid-term milestone, the EJOLT project has chosen Italy, an emblematic country for its environmental conflicts known worldwide, as the next location of the annual meeting. EJOLT partner CDCA—Documentation Centre on Environmental Conflicts—based in Rome, organized a series of activities from the 9th to the 15th of November that will...
The “Raging River” unites struggles against waste disposal and Biocide in Campania
On the 16th of November, thousands of people are expected to join together in the Southern city of Naples against biocide On the 16th of November, thousands of people are expected to join together in the Southern city of Naples, Italy, during one of the biggest demonstrations organized by the grassroots network that emerged in Campania throughout years of the so-called “waste crisis”. _ Under the common banners of #Fiumeinpiena...
Fracking Under Fire, From Canada to Romania
Fracking: flamed opposition of citizens for health, environmental and safety concerns In many communities sitting on top of shale gas reserves, initial enthusiasm over domestic drilling is quickly transformed into inflamed opposition from citizens and officials who express health, safety and environmental concerns. Because fracking is a relatively new technology being used for the first time in many localities, it rarely comes without...
Over Hundred Organisations Demand World Bank Withdrawal from Tata Mundra
Over a hundred prominent organisations expressed shock over World Bank President Dr. Jim Kim’s inaction on the audit report on Tata Mundra Power Project, India Gujarat | India Over Hundred Organisations Demand World Bank Withdrawal from Tata Mundra Over a hundred prominent organisations expressed shock over World Bank President Dr. Jim Kim’s inaction on the audit report on Tata Mundra Power Project in Gujarat, condemned it and...
EJOLT new report: “Digging Deep Corporate Liability”.
Environmental Justice strategies in the world of oil. With CDCA contributions! The impacts provoked by the expanding oil industry encompass environmental destruction, health impacts and violations of human rights. The increasing contamination jeopardizes safe conditions of life and destroys means of livelihood of vulnerable communities and of those relying on healthy ecosystems. Local communities, feeling that they are simply...
Unconventional gas: ‘unsafe, unnecessary and unwanted’
Some reasoning about “unconventional” extraction’s techniques. The controversial case of fracking As conventional fossil fuel sources dry up, the industry has been developing ways of extracting gas that is trapped inside the rock formations such as shale gas, coalbed methane and tight gas. Together they are known as unconventional gas because of the new techniques needed to access them. The most controversial of...
