No Posco, but 3L trees axed for project
Bhubaneswar: As uncertainty prevails over South Korean steel giant Posco's proposed plant near Paradip, the state government on Tuesday informed the assembly that around three lakh trees were felled during
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Posco India distributes pink slips
Posco India is pruning staff in Orissa. Insiders are a bit surprised at the timing because the South Korean steel major just got green clearances for the 12 million tonne steel plant in the state. But observers point out that the company is in no hurry to start the project because the fate of the Kandadhar iron ore mines, key to starting the project, is still hang in fire.
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Build an environment of trust
SANTOSH DESAI Jairam Ramesh has deepened the divide between those who believe that we need to doeverything possible to save the environment and those who think of the Green movement as a fad perpetrated on the human race by a bunch of soft, left-leaning bleeding hearts forever looking for a cause to adopt thathelpsthem express disaffection with the dominant discourse of growth and development.
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List of Posco oustees to be drawn anew
Troubles are far from over for global steel giant Posco to set up its Rs 54,000 crore steel plant in Jagatsinghpur in Orissa with tribals in the area divided over allowing the Korean company to enter.
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The Green Turns Grey
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A dangerous first
In clearing Posco, govt has overridden its own Forest Rights Act, taking the state govt
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Anti-Posco outfit seals routes to project site
PARADIP: The members of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the organisation spearheading agitation against the 12- million tonne steel plant of Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, today re-erected barricades restricting the entry of government, company and police personnel to the project site. The outfit erected eight barricades at various places of Dhinkia panchayat protesting the clearance
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Fresh MoU with Posco needed: BJP
BHUBANESWAR: Senior BJP leader and former industries minister BB Harichandan today urged the Government to sign a fresh MoU with the Korean steel major Posco keeping the State
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Red card to green logic
On January 31, 2011, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) gave its final approval for the construction of a steel plant and captive port of the South Korean company, Posco. The company
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Posco plans to set up plant in Karnataka
JUST a day after the environment ministry granted conditional clearance to Posco for its $12-billion Orissa steel project, the South Korean steel major has reaffirmed its India plans with a second proposal. Posco has selected Halligudi in Gadag district of Karnataka to build its proposed six million tonnes plant at an estimated investment of about .