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FIRST EJOLT REPORT: Industrial waste conflicts around the world. Case studies from India and Bulgaria: shipbreaking and incineration.
EJOLT is proud to announce the first in a series of in-depth reports made through a year-long collaboration between activists and scientists from around the…
Thyssen-Krup Steel Company tries to silence EJOLT partner with a slapp suit
Researchers from EJOLT partner Fiocruz are being sued for evaluating impacts caused by ThyssenKrupp Atlantic Steel Company in Santa Cruz, Brazil. Please sign this declaration of support,…
General News
Death of a Waterfall? Posco’s designs on Khandadhara
Felix Padel, an expert on mining conflicts in Odisha (India), has written a blog for EJOLT giving more details on the struggles of indigenous communities in…
POSCO’s mine and steelplant in breach of OECD guidelines – CSOs file complaint
Source: OECD Watch The complaint filed by Lok Shakti Abhiyan and supporting coalitions in S. Korea, Netherlands, and Norway concerns POSCOs failure to seek to…
EJOLT partner OCMAL: cancel Conga mine project in Peru
EJOLT partner OCMAL (Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en América Latina) asks for definitive suspension of the Conga mining project in Cajamarca, Peru. OCMAL is a…
Opinion
EU bans bee-killing insecticides (for 2 years)
By Gabriel Tamariz. The European Commission just decided to ban 3 insecticides that are thought to be responsible for the alarming decline of insect pollinators…
Apiculture vs. Transgenic-soybean in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
With Monsanto stepping up its genetically modified (GM) soybean program in Mexico, the conflict with honey-producers is escalating. If you dig a little deeper in…
Late lessons from early warnings: hard facts, soft conclusions
By Nick Meynen. In 2001, the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched a groundbreaking report: ‘Late lessons from early warnings. The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000’. It spanned…
TES6 and its co(a)llateral damage in Slovenia and the EU
By Lidija Zivcic The economics make no sense, the legality is questionable and it’s an environmental nightmare. Meet one of Europe’s biggest aspiring polluters: the…
The Colombian mining locomotive has halted
by Joan Martínez-Alier. President Santos of Colombia continues to preach the virtues of what he calls the “mining locomotive” of the economy, based mainly on…
Environmental risk, health and justice: the protagonism of affected populations in the production of knowledge
EJOLT collaborators Marcelo Firpo and Renan Finamore recently published an article entitled “Environmental risk, health and justice: the protagonism of affected populations in the production…
The Toxic Truth about Trafigura and the total lack of environmental justice
By Nick Meynen. The story of Trafigura in Abidjan is well on its way to the darker side of the history books, somewhere alongside Union…
Ukrainian environmentalist brutally beaten to death
By Nick Meynen On July 27, 2012 Volodymyr Goncharenko gave a press conference revealing that 180 tons of dangerous chemical and radioactive industrial waste had arrived at…
Life in the deathly mists of the soy industry in Argentina
By Nick Meynen. In Ituzaingó, a small city in Argentina, a battle of David against Goliath is brewing. In a lawsuit that started on July…
Dispatch from Canada: Dutch disease, Greek Disease or Oil Sands Fever in the Pipeline? Plus Chevron-Texaco case lands in Canada!
By Leah Temper. Spatulas against Woks, wooden spoons against colanders, pots meeting pans – this is the sound of discontent in Canada these past few…
