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Polavaram dam pandemonium stalls Odisha Assembly
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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Polavaram dam pandemonium stalls Odisha Assembly

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: The Assembly on Friday witnessed noisy scenes over the Polavaram dam project being implemented by the Andhra Pradesh government after Speaker Surama Padhy rejected the demand of the Opposition Congress and BJD for a discussion in the House. Congress members rushed to the well of the House as soon as the question hour started protesting the Speaker’s decision not …

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Brazil gold mine puts Indigenous territory ‘at risk’, advocates say
1 year, 4 months ago

Brazil gold mine puts Indigenous territory ‘at risk’, advocates say

Al Jazeera  

Families in the Para region are worried they will be displaced to make way for an open-pit mining project. “ vehemently repudiates the Belo Sun mining project, as it will benefit a small group of rentier capital market investors at the cost of ecogenocide, destroying the Amazon rainforest and condemning the Indigenous peoples and other traditional communities of the region …

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Fears of environmental disaster mount after Ukraine dam break
1 year, 6 months ago

Fears of environmental disaster mount after Ukraine dam break

Al Jazeera  

An estimated 700,000 people are in need of clean water around the Nova Kakhovka dam as Kyiv accuses Moscow of ‘ecocide’. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of deliberately blowing up the dam and said the sabotage amounted to a “war crime”, “an act of terrorism” and “brutal ecocide”. “The consequences will be felt not only by the nature reservoirs downstream …

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Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelenskyy visit
1 year, 6 months ago

Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelenskyy visit

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — Russian forces Thursday shelled a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding in a catastrophic dam collapse, Ukrainian officials said, forcing a suspension of some rescue efforts hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the area to assess the damage. Upriver from the dam, a supply of water used to cool Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was nearing …

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