tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185314772024-02-28T23:43:18.340+05:30EPG OrissaEnvironmental Protection Group Orissa: A non-funded networkEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-31138188276832269302010-05-15T23:43:00.000+05:302010-05-15T23:43:38.186+05:30Nabeen government attacks anti-POSCO resistance in a final bid to get land for foreign companiesThe valiant and heroic anto-POSCO resistance fighting for the right to live and livelihood faces its strongest test as the Orissa state and bureaucracy (owned lock, stock and barrel by POSCO, Vedanta and TATAs) have finally decided to unleash its might on its own citizens to obtain land for POSCO. As of latest, massive violence have been unleashed on resisters, men, women and children, by almost EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-69665282698867134112010-05-08T07:43:00.000+05:302010-05-08T07:43:39.556+05:30Kalinganagar Situation Remains TenseThe police has been entering villages protesting displacement and trying to break down houses. In this they are supported by pro TATA goons.
Yesterday, as per the information received, almost a thousand armed policemen entered Chandia village in order to demolish houses. They were confronted by large number of tribal men and women, who said that they would die before they allow the EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-57400864912996163122010-04-29T09:05:00.000+05:302010-04-29T09:05:32.067+05:30CEC indicts Orissa government for rampant illegal miningPlease read on:
Orissa Mining Scam: Government at fault for allowing illegal MiningDebabrata MohantyFinancial Express, Wednesday, Apr 28
Bhubaneswar: In a clear damnation of the Orissa government, the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court hearing into the allegation of forest law violations in multi-crore mining scam in the State, has said that mining activities were goingEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-90446464738009495262010-04-17T00:35:00.000+05:302010-04-17T00:35:28.318+05:30Kalinganagar: With Each Iron Eyes- a Short film by Pranab AichThis is a beautiful short film which captures the tragedy of Kalinganagar.
ModeratorEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-83135163492055657122010-04-17T00:10:00.000+05:302010-04-17T00:10:53.720+05:30Kalinganagar travails: Naveen remains the corporate lapdogPlease find the latest from Kalingangar and link to a TV newsreport
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJakoZXofG8
Today morning Ghanshyam Kalundia of Baligotha village died succumbing to prolonged undiagnosed diseases. Just two days ago he had made it to newspaper headlines - "I want to live." Ghanshyam is the third person to die within a week for unavailability of medical support. AlreadyEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-7725263686036404742010-04-13T09:55:00.000+05:302010-04-13T09:55:29.746+05:30Economic Times article on Vedanta and NiyamgiriA long article in ET on the Vedanta Niyamgiri issue.
Note the very last para - it quotes Vedanta as saying " “Even if they start exploring in other locations now, it will still take three more years before they can offer us mines. For that reason, Niyamgiri is a must for the refinery,” he said, adding that the company would force the state government “to fulfill the terms of the agreement EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-81744027505857378842010-04-13T09:39:00.002+05:302010-04-13T09:46:53.554+05:30Journalists manage to visit KalinganagarA number of journalists managed to break through the police and TATA goons cordon around the Kalinganagar movement villages and talk to the villagers. Prashant Pattanaik describes the trip in his article posted on Orissa Matters.Subhash Pattanayak has also posted some of pictures taken by the journalists on the Orissa Matters BlogEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-11671128969819058072010-04-08T02:14:00.001+05:302010-04-08T02:16:12.636+05:30Petition on Kalinganagar submitted to the GovernorShri Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Honourable Governor Orissa State Raj Bhawan, Bhubaneswar Sub: Citizens Appeal on Kalinganagar Situation April 7, 2010 Respected Rajyapalji, With deep shock and disbelief we share the following quite avoidable tragic happenings in EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-32018603157550809282010-04-08T00:46:00.003+05:302010-04-08T00:53:03.910+05:30Posters from the media protest meetMedia Persons of Orissa met outside Soochana Bhawan today to protest against the attacks on fellow journalists at Kalinganagar by BJD and Tata sponsored goons.About 50 media persons from leading media outfits ( print and electronic) took part in the protest. Some interesting posters from the event.If you can't see the image, please go to epgorissa.blogspot.comEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-87441374256832191002010-03-27T08:14:00.004+05:302010-03-30T19:00:36.728+05:3024 Platoons armed police for Kalinganagar tribals: UpdatesAs predicted earlier, the government and the goons have started a reign of terror against protesting tribals in Kalinganagar. The Bisthapan Birodhi Jana Manch (BBJM) and the villagers are resisting this ingress. Apparently one person has been shot and injured, people beaten up discriminately, houses burned and cattle shot. The account of the 14 tribals who were killed in 2006 hasn't been settled EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-67353011441965551502010-03-15T05:57:00.002+05:302010-03-15T07:01:16.094+05:30NROs againI had written about a certain set of NROs earlier at http://epgorissa.blogspot.com/search/label/Non%20Resident%20Oriyas Then recently a threat started on a listserve regarding operation greenhunt. One certain Mr. Manoj Padhi, whose heart apparently beats for Orissa and Oriyas had the following words to say about Orissa's tribals ""The answer to all these tribals is - " (tax) Money is not EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-63622158155106552802010-03-13T08:43:00.003+05:302010-03-13T08:54:16.154+05:30Vedanta finds itself in deep end of both FCA and FRAVedanta is apparently violating both the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 and the Forest Rights Act, 2006 - as found by a Ministry of Environment & Forest Team. This officially substantiates what many of us have been trying to tell the state and central government for quite some time. It also shows the contempt with which Vedanta holds the rule of law in India - that in fact the infamous SupremeEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-17283332612223243902010-03-11T10:56:00.002+05:302010-03-11T11:10:03.579+05:30A new video by Samadrusti Channel on the ongoing repression in KalinganagarSomehow Kalinganagar seems to have slipped out of the consciousness of the chattering classes- who are currently more distracted by the so called threats posed by the Maoists, who are supposed to take over the Indian State by 2050 - a red herring of quite large proportions. Meanwhile my friends who keep track of movements and corporates say that the state is OK with the maoists- what they are EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-54181340384471023402010-02-23T03:14:00.007+05:302010-02-23T03:17:09.668+05:30Niyamgiri Shapath Festival - Dongarias take oath to protect Niyamgiri from miningPhotos by Satyabadi NaikEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-81251698023748275882009-11-23T18:14:00.003+05:302009-11-23T18:20:37.610+05:30Fact Finding Report on the Police firing on CMAS activists in Narayanpatna, OrissaDemocracy’ at its worst ! (Fact Finding of Narayanpatna Firing on CMAS) As this report gets written Singanna and Andru’s bodies are being cremated at Podapadar village amidst a throng of police platoons waiting to arrest any member of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS) who exposes herself or himself to the police. Already 20 have been arrested and there is evident fear of many more hundreds EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-17426545297094310322009-10-06T00:51:00.003+05:302009-10-11T19:49:08.865+05:30Massive Rally and Convention at Muniguda challenges Vedanta’s plans to mine Niyamgiri5th September, 2009A rally of over 5000 people gathered together at Muniguda, inspite of the heavy rains and an ongoing Bus strike, to protest Vedanta’s proposal to mine Niyamgiri. Thousands of Jharania and Dongaria Kondhs braved the rains to join the rally with their traditional arms. The rally started at 10 am from Rajulguda village near Dahikhal and reached Muniguda petrol pump where tribals EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-63075845869002980722009-09-06T03:56:00.003+05:302009-09-06T04:00:34.364+05:30Introduction to global warmingI shouldn't be lifting it from a blog wholesale - but this is a wonderfully informed and data/information rich post on "catastrophic global warming". The original blog, which again is very useful.RegardsKundanhttp://climateprogress.org/2009/03/22/an-introduction-to-global-warming-impacts-hell-and-high-water/An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High WaterMarch 22, 2009This is for EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-72376638565878550682009-09-06T03:47:00.002+05:302009-09-06T03:52:39.808+05:30Six degrees to a hotter PlanetPlease find this very interesting article. It is again written from a westerner's perspective, but note that our nemesis (i.e. for people from the developing world) is very close if no drastic action is taken. http://www.marklynas.org/2007/4/23/six-steps-to-hell-summary-of-six-degrees-as-published-in-the-guardian'Six steps to hell' - summary of Six Degrees as published in the Guardian 23 April EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-27628612178172471472009-09-04T21:01:00.001+05:302009-09-04T21:02:17.746+05:30Zaroori KhwabA song on Dongarias and Niyamgiri by Milli Bhagat.EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-48357027174980854992009-09-04T20:45:00.002+05:302009-09-04T20:54:11.410+05:30Catastrophic Climate Change: What will be Orissa's fate?Please an article from Guardian on climate change. One of them talks about rise in sea level because of melting glaciers. Predictions of sea level rise of upto 150 cm. by century end have been made by USA's Geological Survey- and some scientists say that this may be an underestimate.Has someone done a detailed analysis of the impact of sea level rise on coastal Orissa- what will be the zones of EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-8616114968357654982009-08-31T03:19:00.002+05:302009-08-31T03:23:34.566+05:30"Martyr", A Samadrusti Short FilmThis is a nice short clip on the sacrifice of those opposing displacement, landgrab and pollution in name of industrialisation.EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-7944621231494875612009-07-28T00:00:00.002+05:302009-07-28T00:11:29.667+05:30Coverage of Niyamgiri Issue in International PressPlease find some of the coverage of Niyamgiri Issue in Guardian and the BBC.Kundanhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/26/vedanta-mining-india-bianca-jaggerActivists call on Vedanta investors to oppose mine on holy site in IndiaLocal councils and the Church of England will come under fire for holding shares in the mining group which is opening a new mine in forests on the mountain of NiyamEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-62301210292254792542009-07-26T20:12:00.003+05:302009-07-26T20:18:19.123+05:30Protests against Vedanta's mining of NiyamgiriSuccessful Protest against Vedanta in Lanjigarh, Orissa Despite company goons tried to stop activists on the way 25 July 2009See photographs at http://www.epgorissa.org/apps/photos/album?albumid=6620562 Hundreds of tribals from the Niyamgiri mountain and Lanjigarh staged a protest against Vedanta's mining and refinery project that will ruin the sacred Niyamgiri mountain alongwith its water EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-70376927286532520302009-07-23T07:50:00.002+05:302009-07-23T08:10:05.815+05:30Vedanta steps in it againVedanta, the company who wants 6000 acres for a piddly university (my own institution University of Toronto's main campus is around 200 acres only with a student population of nearly 70,000) shows its real, irresponsible face again. This time- surprise, surprise - it is our Pollution Control Board- which has issued a show cause notice to Vedanta's massive aluminium smelter and power plant in EPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18531477.post-88768656515629896982009-07-23T02:25:00.003+05:302009-07-23T02:58:38.882+05:30An Open Letter to Chief Minister,Orissa by Chairman, OSSAIt is good to see prominent persons in the civil society voicing their concern over the increasing repression by the state government of Orissa, using the excuse of Maoists. This is an powerful appeal, made by a person very familiar with the tribal areas of Orissa. I hope that arrest of Dr. Biswajit Roy will focus the attention of the civil society of Orissa on the deliberate and planned strategyEPGOrissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06513100254121687474noreply@blogger.com0