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No Water in Kabini for Chamalapura
Coal Fired Power Plant
ESG has
strongly advocated against the the aggressive promotion of coal
fired thermal power plants in Karnataka. Over the past year, ESG
has worked closely with communities potentially affected by the
proposal to locate a thermal power plant at Chamalapura, near Mysore.
ESG deposed before the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission
against the project on grounds that there is simply no water in
the Kabini river to support a power plants demands.
Read the Submission
made by ESG to KERC
Download the
Press Release
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Campaign Against Privatisation of
Lakes 
The East India Hotels Ltd (Oberois) have entered into a contract
with the Lake Development Authority under the Private Public Partnership
Model for the maintenance of Bangalore's heritage Hebbal Tank based
on a lease period of 15 years - extendable by 10 years. Read
more
ESG has filed a PIL which arrays a range of legal concerns relating
to the ongoing privatisation of lakes/tanks in Bangalore and fundamentally
exposes such actions to be opposed to settled legal norms relating
to management and conservation of such ecologically sensitive water
bodies which are also wildlife habitats. The Karnataka High
Court has admitted ESG's PIL against Privatisation of Lakes and
Issued an Emergent Notice to Respondents - Read
the Press Release. Download
the PIL filed by ESG
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Hasiru Usiru - Concerned people
Unite against Tree felling
A public
consultation on Road widening schemes of Bengaluru:
Impacts and Alternatives was jointly organised by Environment
Support Group (ESG), Civic and Alternative Law Forum (ALF), public
interest not for profit organisations responding to governance,
planning, social and environmental justice causes. The consultation
was held under the banner of Hasiru
Usiru on 20th December 2007. Read
the Report of the public consultation.
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BMIC Controversy
- Resorting to violence and Intimidation
Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) Project is one
of the most controversial urban infrastructure development projects
in India.
On 25 October 2007, ESG Team members and several international
students and faculty were assaulted by a large group of men while
traveling on the Peripheral Road of Bangalore from Kanakapura to
Mysore Road. This dastardly attack was led by Mr. Ashok Kheny, Managing
Director of NICE Ltd., his PRO Mr. Manjunath, and several scores
of his security men. Enclosed are pictures of this assault.
Read more
A Nice road goes dangerously
off-course - An
article in Indian Architect and Builder - May 2007
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Mangalore Petrochemical SEZ Environmental
Public Hearing Ended Abruptly
In
what is turning out to be another aggressive effort to push ahead
with a Special Economic Zone, the Deputy Commissioner of Mangalore
district in Karnataka, Mr. Maheshwar Rao, IAS, decided to abruptly
end proceedings of a statutory Environmental Public Hearing being
held
in Bajpe town on 28 November 2007. Read
more
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Green Tapism: A Review of the Environmental
Impact Assessment Notification - 2006
The Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA Notification)
issued by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) per
the Environment Protection Act, 1986 is amongst the most critical
legislative instruments covering key aspects of environmental decision
making including assessment of prospective environmental and social
impacts of proposed developments. Read
more
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Environmental and Social Concerns
Brushed Aside at West Coast Paper Mills, Dandeli, Karnataka
The
20th February 2007 Environmental Public Hearing for the proposed
Rs. 1260 crore expansion and modernisation of West Coast Paper Mills
Limited (WCPM) was marred by chaotic scenes of heckling, intimidation,
and hooliganism. Read
Press Release
Supa
dam displaced lease out lands to paper mill - Down to Earth
- Jan 2008
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Environment Support Group (ESG) is an independent
not-for-profit voluntary organisation, registered as a Public Charitable
Trust. Our area of work involves research, documentation, advocacy, training
and campaign support on a variety of environmental and social justice
issues.
We are amongst the foremost proponents in India for the reform
of environmental decision making processes urging that the same be made
more participatory and environmentally and socially just.
Setting the record straight
- SLAPP against ESG - For pleading against the destruction
of artefacts created by children and renowned artists in The Art Village
of The Valley School, Leo Saldanha, Coordinator of ESG and his wife Dr.
Lakshmi Nilakantan, a Mathematics Teacher at The Valley School were booked
for misuse of sandalwood and encroachment of forests. ESG views these
efforts as a smear campaign and an ill motivated prosecution which
is part of a broader Strategic Litigation Against Public Purpose (SLAPP)
initiated at the behest of vested interests. Download
the Public Statement issued by our Advocate in this regard. You
can also view some pictures of the operation to recover "encroached"
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Avail
a copy of Green Tapism - A
review of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification - 2006. Download
the PDF
NewsRack: A tool for personalized
news monitoring http://newsrack.in
: NewsRack is a tool/service for classifying, filing, and long-term archiving
of news. It enables individuals to track news and archive them on the
web in easily accessible news categories.Read
more
ESG has compiled a bulletin
of questions being raised in the XI session of Parliament of India -
Read
the Parliamentary Updates Bulletins
As part of the Community
Access 2000 project in Raichur, ESG compiled Community Educational Material
on Solid Waste Management - Download
the material.
We
have a growing library which currently contains over 1000 books
(View book List PDF) and
over 900 reports (View Reports
List PDF) and a large number of newsclippings, articles,
journals, magazines and newsletters collected over the years. These
can be accessed at our office for a nominal fee.
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