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ENRON, without any intimation or notice to the government of India or Maharashtra, has obtained an ex parte injunction from the High Court of Justice in London on 10th October 2001. This injunction prohibits the … Read more

THE Godbole committee, set up to examine Enron’s Dabhol Power Project, has clearly opined that power from this project was priced way beyond what was reasonable, and the decision-making process was neither “reasonable” nor “rational”. … Read more

As critics of Enron, we owe an apology to the nation for not bringing out the true nature of the Enron contract. Instead of Dhabol power costing Rs 4, and being a bad deal as … Read more

The best part of the G8 Summit that concluded on July 9 was the picture postcard setting of the mountain resort of Toyako (near Lake Toya hence Toya-ko) in Hokkaido, Japan. Those who expected the … Read more

USA 2, Rest Of The World 0 Bali Climate Conference SO, yet another international conference on climate change, this time in the scenic Indonesian island of Bali, has come to an end without anything to … Read more

Last Chance To Save The Planet!  SO this is it! No more excuses, no ifs and buts, this is definitive. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Report of its Third Working Group … Read more

More than 650 organisations – including Greenpeace and the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements – have recently filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States over the approval of … Read more

The intrinsic nature of capitalism is to draw in an ever larger circle of formations within its scope. This produces serious conflicts over natural resources, particularly in land, and its consequent degradation. Much of the … Read more

IN all the din made by US bombs in Afghanistan, and the media becoming almost single issue-focused, a major international event, namely the drawing-up of the first-ever multilateral treaty on environment, passed almost unnoticed. The … Read more

REGULAR readers of these columns will probably wonder why another article on the much-debated Kyoto Protocol is appearing in People’s Democracy so soon after the previous one on the “toxic Texan” US President George W … Read more

VIRTUALLY since the dawn of human civilization, the total amount of fresh water available for human consumption and use has practically remained constant. It is just half a per cent of the total water on … Read more

IT took very little time after becoming US President for George W Bush to shed the centrist image carefully projected during the presidential campaign and embrace the far right conservative platform, for which his Republican … Read more