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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Why Posco should leave
I can still remember how people were dancing and kicking at the bamboo cordons and shouting "Posco Go Back', when we reached Balitutha, near Parikud in Orissa on April 1, 2008. People from many parts of the state, especially from the scene of anti-displacement struggles (including Kalinga Nagar), had joined the local people and the gathering was huge. Exactly four months earlier, on December 1, 2007, I had seen the same people demonstrate when I reached Dhinkia, the first village to be displaced by the Posco steel project. (Letter)
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People clash over POSCO
<font class="UCASE">pro-</font> and anti- <font class="UCASE">posco</font> groups in Orissa clashed again. It is alleged that the hand of a 58-year old man of the <font class="UCASE">posco</font> -support group was chopped off on May 14 by project opponents led by the <font class="UCASE">posco</font> Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (<font class="UCASE">ppss</font>).
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Posco gets Orissa nod for Khandadhar mines
The Orissa government is all set to recommend the Khandadhar iron ore mines to South Korean steel major Posco. Its recommendation letter is likely to be dispatched some time in the first week of next month as all formalities related to the hand-over have been carried out. There were as many 237 applicants for the mines. The state government on December 26, 2006, recommended Posco India to the Centre for a licence to carry out prospecting over 6204.352 hectares of the Khandadhar mines in Sundergarh district. The Centre initially rejected the state government's recommendation of Posco.
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NMDC may review iron ore exports to Japan, Posco
India's largest iron ore producer and exporter, NMDC Ltd, may review exports to Japanese steel mills and South Korea's Posco in a bid to increase availability in the domestic market and restore the anomaly in net realisations from exports and domestic prices. Currently, domestic prices are higher than export realisations by 97-231 per cent, depending on the grades and mines.
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Villagers see reason in protesting against POSCO
Little did I know that the seven of us would be branded "Maoists' when we set off for a protest rally against <font class="UCASE">posco</font> in Orissa on April 1. We had reached Bhubaneswar a day earlier and booked a taxi to Dhinkia, a hamlet 10 km off Paradip port. A local boy travelling with us sounded out the prospect of having to walk down the last kilometre by the coast to "avoid trouble'; he had information that a police vehicle was doing rounds of the area. <br>
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Anti-Posco activists form suicide team
Making the situation more complex for the state government, activists opposing the Rs 12,000-crore Posco steel project at Paradip have formed a suicide squad. The Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is spearheading the anti-displacement movement, has formed the suicide squad with at least 50 members enrolled from Nuagaon panchayat, the proposed project site. The squad took oath at Sarala temple at Kanakpur in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday and vowed to lay down their lives protecting their "motherland."
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Anti-POSCO protests gather steam
south Korean steel giant posco continues to face stiff public resistance in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district where the company is setting up a 12 million tonne steel plant. On April 1, protesters
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State of Siege
Angered by government support for the POSCO steel plant, hundreds of protestors stormed police barricades in Orissa's Dhinkia. An eye-witness account by MANSHI ASHER APRIL 1, 2008. We are at Patna, a small village in Dhinkia panchayat of Ersama block in the East Coast of Orissa. Now referred to as
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Water, Water Everywhere?
Water scarcity is the albatross around our collective neck
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POSCO targets Daewoo Shipbuilding, Chinese firm
SOUTH KOREA'S POSCO said on Thursday it was considering a rise in steel prices, easing fears that rising raw material costs will hit its earnings, and lifting its shares to a four-week high. The company, the world's fourth largest steelmaker, also said it may bid for Daewoo Shipbuilding, which analysts say could fetch nearly $5.1 billion, and was considering buying a stake in a Chinese firm. "We are considering raising steel prices but details in terms of the timing and the level of the price hike haven't been decided,' a POSCO spokesman said.