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...
Protect the Planet, Keep oil companies out of Yasuni-ITT: a letter to President Correa
Oilwatch International issued an open letter to the President of Ecuador. This follows on the dramatic turn of events on August 15. Dear Mr. President Rafael Correa We are shocked by the announcement you made on 15 August 2013 that you would permit crude oil extraction in the Yasuni-ITT. We strongly believe that the original decision to leave the oil in this pristine territory in the ground was the right decision and that the decision...
The Narmada Valley calls for international solidarity!
More mobilizations are going on around the now infamous Sardar Sarovar Dam, in the state of Gujarat-India. The movement calls for international solidarity and action by sending the below petitions. Satyagraha is the struggle for the Truth, a Gandhian way of fighting injustice with the power of the Truth. Jal means water and the two words indicate a powerful means of struggle in the Narmada valley. Hundreds are now standing in the...
Focus on Yasuni!
On August 15, President Rafael Correa announced the closure of the Yasuni ITT initiative, thus opening the protected area to oil drilling. Social movements react. The decision of the Ecuador president sign the failure of the Amazon territory defense’s project. Based on the principle of “leave the oil in the soil”, the Yasuni ITT initiative – started in 2007 – has been an attempt to free Ecuador from oil...
