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How India is engineering nuclear landscapes through charades of green clearance

How India is engineering nuclear landscapes through charades of green clearance

September 1, 2021 at 4:06 am 0 comments

Sonali Huria | The Leaflet On December 15, 2018, a public hearing got underway amid strong armed police presence and public protests for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the proposed extension of the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant (Units 5 and 6). While in-principle approval for the setting up of 2×700 MWe PHWRsRead More

India: Nuclear and environmental dissent is a crime

India: Nuclear and environmental dissent is a crime

January 5, 2021 at 10:56 pm 0 comments

Kumar Sundaram | The Ecologist

In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack, labeled ‘enemies of the state’ and a threat to economic growth.