Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
This paper analyses current policy and legislation in relation to the praxis of artisanal gold mining in Mozambique. Approximately 20,000 people are involved in artisanal mining in central Mozambique, producing annually 480–600 kg of gold, 85–90% of which remains in the informal economy. The current legislation, however, is inadequate: artisanal …
East St. Louis: Two persons have died after exposure to a dangerous chemical at a storage and mixing plant, a city official said today. At least eight people were sickened by exposure to the chemical yesterday, and emergency rooms were quarantined at two St. Louis hospitals where those people sought …
This paper looks at how Nike's soccer ball suppliers (previous and current) in Sialkot (Pakistan) fare in relation to the company's code of ethics. While minimum required working conditions are implemented, the criteria for social and environmental compliance are not met with. The multinational's decision to withdraw orders from the …
Thousands of mineworkers downed tools in South Africa on December 4 in a strike, demanding better safety in mines. The strike was called by the National Union of Mineworkers (num) after three mineworkers were killed in separate mine accidents on December 1, putting the death toll in mines at 202 …
Most of us regard the Egyptian pyramids as architectural masterpieces. Justifiably so: the monuments are among the world's finest heritage. But then how many of us know the fate of the workers engaged in building these final resting places for the Egyptian pharaohs? It's scarcely known that stone mining, hand …
Mine workers' safety has moved beyond fulminations of activists and official confabulations. To corporate circles, it seems, going by an ad issued by Simplex, an engineering products company located in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. "How long coal miners will work manually?" the ad asks. It's easy to mistake this poster-sized ad for …
Safety in mines has improved today compared to days of bonded mine labour. But mines which employ 1 per cent of the global labour force remain hazardous Over half the world's mining accidents occur in the Asia-Pacific Recent mining accidents March 19, 2007: 108 killed in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia February …
there has been a sudden surge in ships arriving at Alang for dismantling since November 2006, says the Gujarat Maritime Board (gmb). The shipbreaking yard now faces more toxic hazards. According to gmb, between November 2006 and February 2007, the shipbreaking yard has received 64 small- and medium-sized ships for …
In 1957, Ghana became the first black African nation to gain independence from European rule. As a British colony, the country was known as the Gold Coast, an unambiguous reference to its most valuable resource. In fact, even before the arrival of the Europeans in the 15th century, Arab and …
Underground mines in Jharkhand have been peppered with disasters, the most recent of which happened on September 7. An explosion ripped through the Nagdah Colliery in the Jharia area, killing 54 miners. Despite its prime coke coal content, the Jharia area is also notorious for the underground fires that have …
Supreme Court had set up a high-level committee of technical experts to examine the working conditions at the Alang shipbreaking yard, Asia's biggest shipbreaking yard. The committee, headed by Prodipto Ghosh, secretary, Union ministry of environment and forests, submitted its report early this month, pinning the blame of poor workers' …
How hazardous is dismantling a decommissioned ship? It does have dangerous substances like asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) and spent oil. Who should be allowed to engage in shipbreaking? What rules exist to ensure the safety of labour involved in dismantling ships and the environment? A brief recap is essential for …
The most influential process safety accident passed its 20th anniversary on Dec 3, 2004. At an international symposium to mark the event in Kanpur, India during the week of this anniversary, process safety practitioners from around the world assembled to discuss progress in resolving the Bhopal tragedy and in advancing …
Underneath the sleepy suburbs of Orange, New Jersey, usa, lies a unique site in the history of labour rights and the understanding of radioactive materials. For it was in a factory here in the 1920s that almost hundred young women were slowly poisoned to death with radium. The ensuing case …
A major accident that hit a platform of Bombay High (bh), India's largest offshore oil facility, on July 26, 2005, has put a question mark on the safety measures taken by the country in oil-exploration activities. The fire killed 12 employees of the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc) …
an under-construction tunnel of the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project in Arunachal Pradesh collapsed late night on August 7, 2005, following heavy rainfall. Fifteen contract labourers got trapped inside and could be rescued only after 18 hours, by the evening of August 8, 2005. The state government, surprisingly, didn't know about …
India's construction sector contributes about six per cent to her Gross Domestic Product. In the Tenth Five-year Plan currently unfolding, that figure is likely to go up. The plan envisages massive construction activity across the country. Over 60 per cent of the total plan outlay is likely to be spent …
