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It's All Sarovar
After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project |
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03 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| It's All Sarovar After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project One of the world's longest-running social and environmental campaigns is sleeping with the fishes as of Sunday, when the last bucket of concrete was poured on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Indian state of Gujarat. The project, initiated nearly 20 years ago, diverts India's fifth-largest river, the Narmada; authorities say it will provide drinking wa ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, India, news (all these topics) |
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Sardar Superstar
India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years |
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09 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sardar Superstar India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years For citizens of India, debate over dams is soap-operatic. Take the saga of the country's still-unfinished Sardar Sarovar dam. It has everything: protests, riots, hunger strikes, and long, protracted court battles. Proponents of the $7.7 billion dam on the Narmada River claim that, when completed, it will produce megawatts upon megawatts of m ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, hydropower, India, news (all these topics) |
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Hungry for Justice
Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking |
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06 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking Demonstrations against dams in India's Narmada Valley yesterday brought the heavy hand of police, who roughed up protestors and arrested India's most famous environmentalist eight days into a hunger strike on charges of -- get this -- attempting suicide. Medha Patkar's fast started when officials began raisin ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, environmental justice, India, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Damalot
Jacques Leslie's Deep Water sheds light on dam dramas |
Michelle Nijhuis |
12 Oct 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| What does hell look like to an environmentalist? In the classic Encounters With the Archdruid, writer John McPhee imagines this particular inferno. The outer ring, he writes, is a moat filled with DDT. Inside lies another moat brimming with burning gasoline, and still deeper are masses of bulldozers and chainsaws. In the middle -- at "the absolute epicenter of hell on earth" -- stands a dam. & ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Australia, dams, energy, India (all these topics) |
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A Dam Shame
A paddler travels one of India's great rivers before a dam changes it for good |
Dan Oko |
08 Jun 2004 |
Main Dish |
| Except for the occasional palm or banana tree, the Himalayan canyon walls look like those carved by the Salmon River in Idaho: The hillsides are brown and dotted with pine groves, and the boulder-strewn banks of the river give way to stretches of white sand. But this is the Bhagirathi River, half a world away from the Rocky Mountains, and I am on what is billed as the last expedition ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, India (all these topics) |
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No Small Thing
A review of Power Politics |
Michelle Nijhuis |
17 Jan 2002 |
Arts and Minds |
| When your first novel wins the Booker Prize, sells 6 million copies, and earns you a publicity trip around the world, what do you do next? Arundhati Roy, author of the 1997 novel The God of Small Things, decided she wanted to switch from fiction to the hard facts. A year after Roy's big debut, the New Delhi resident published a slim volume called The Cost of Living. The book consisted of two political essays. One attack ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, India (all these topics) |
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