“greenwash” can be defined as trying to convince people that you are doing something good for the environment by being involved in small, environmentally-friendly initiatives, especially as a way of hiding your involvement in activities...
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“greenwash” can be defined as trying to convince people that you are doing something good for the environment by being involved in small, environmentally-friendly initiatives, especially as a way of hiding your involvement in activities which are damaging to the environment.
Bangladesh and India: Tipaimukh Dam And Transparency
Our previous report on the damaging aspects of the Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project and protests against it generated much reader response. This post has updates on the situation.
Asadul Haque at Haque's Talking describes how this has been a hot debate in Bangladesh recently:
The Tipaimukh dam issue currently continues to dominate
the domain of political, media, intellectual and civil society’s
discourse in Bangladesh with... Read Full Story
Indigenous Hmar People Oppose Tipaimukh Dam Project
The Hmar Peoples Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) has said that the proposed Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project is a war imposed on the indigenous Hmar people and other communities who share the river.
HPC-D “northern command” leader Lalthutlung Hmar told Newmai News Network that power-hungry governments and dam builders in India are being driven by capitalist interests. In their blind pursuit for profit and securing energy in... Read Full Story
http://www.newagebd.com/2009/jun/04/nat.html#2
Tipaimukh dam to destroy ecology: experts
Staff Correspondent
Commissioning of the planned Tipaimukh dam by India will escalate socio-economic and political tension in India’s north-eastern states and also Bangladesh, and imperil the ecology of the region, green campaigners said.
After sounding this note of caution, a leading environmentalist on Wednesday demanded that New Delhi must make public all the documents on the Tipaimukh hydro... Read Full Story
What is the power of a blog? What changes can a blog bring? Do bloggers love their country? What price are they willing to pay for that love? Are they brave enough? I am frustrated. I am frustrated because at this moment I am not being able to do anything but to write. Will writing solve this great problem of ours? Will writing solve any problem of ours? After the project of Farakka Dam , India is starting another similar project which is equally (if not more) dangerous for the ecology and... Read Full Story
Definitively Uncertain. Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report, Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States , and adopted a analytical methodology that will likely satisfy few. At times it's reminiscent of Ron Suskind's description of Vice President Dick Cheney's "one percent doctrine" that asserted that if "a one percent chance" that a threat is real exists "we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. . . It's not about our analysis, or... Read Full Story
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/06/17/news0277.htm
Tipaimukh dam: Farm output to fall, spelling disaster for Sylhet region
bdnews24.com, Dhaka
Farm output will fall and poverty will rise, spelling ‘disaster’ for the Sylhet region if India’s proposed Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage are built, maintain experts.
“The dam will cause water flow to slow down while the barrage will ensure their full control of water [...] Read Full Story
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April 2, 2009
Shopping Green Made Easy
By Janine Theriault, Staff Writer
MONTREAL( RPRN ) 02/04/09 - Since Earth Day’s inception on April 22, 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, much has changed: different leaders have come and gone, areas of concern for the environment have changed (in 1969 the New York Times ran an article on... Read Full Story
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/05/10/news0820.htm
India finalises construction of Tipaimukh Dam: Adverse impact feared on Bangladesh environment, ecology
National Awami Party (NAP) formed a human chain at the Muktangan area in the city on Saturday demanding stoppage of the construction work of Tipaimukh Dam by India. Banglar Chokh
Ehsanul Haque Jasim
The Indian government already has completed all preparations to construct Tipaimukh dam on Borak River just a kilometer north of... Read Full Story
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March 28, 2009
By Janine Theriault, staff writer
A committed environmentalist , DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups
Small businesses making a difference in the fight to save the planet
HOLLYWOOD ( RPRN )03/28/09 - With Earth Day ’09 fast... Read Full Story
As part of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, volunteers in Darwen braved the cold to help pick up litter in the Sudellside area of Darwen, Lancashire. On a morning which saw local temperatures struggle to get above -2C, volunteers gathered outside Sudellside Community Centre at 10am hoping their efforts will help combat the problems of littering. Armed with rubbish bags, litter pickers, gloves and special tabards, the group of adults and children made their way round the surrounding area... Read Full Story
