WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY [Dec '08]
Work began on a new 300 million gallon storage
facility for clean drinking water in Greenville, NC. The new system uses underground aquifers rather than above ground facilities. The project is one of seventy-three nationwide and reflects concern generated by the current extreme drought in the Southeastern U.S. The other half of the water management equation, however, is the management of rampant development.
APRIL 2009
CRIMINAL MANAGERS AT WORLD CLASS POLLUTER BUSTED, TRIED AND SENTENCED
Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co, a division of the notorious McWane Inc, has been brought to justice, and four managers have been given federal prison terms for flagrant environmental
crimes.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN CHICAGO: A TOXIC TOUR OF LITTLE VILLAGE
College student Marisol Becerra creates and interactive
map of polluters in the primarily Latino Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.
YOUR BRAIN ON HOPE
Indian Auto Company and Polluter Extraordinaire Loose SLAPP suit against Greenpeace.
JAN 2011
In June 2010, TATA Sons had filed a case of defamation and trademark infringement against Greenpeace, asking for Rs. 10 crore in damages ($2 million) and for the game to removed from the Greenpeace site. In a 35 page detailed judgment dated January 28, 2011, Justice Ravindra Bhatt of the Delhi High Court rejected the TATA plea, upholding the right to free speech and legitimate criticism.
This case has set a legal precedent in India, as it is the first time that a giant corporation has sought to use trademark infringement laws to muzzle criticism of its environmental performance.
Meanwhile, TATA’s Dhamra port – the centre of the controversy inches towards completion, even as new evidence has emerged that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh decided to overlook the port’s violation of the Forest Conservation Act.
This Tata vs Turtles lawsuit is of course nothing but a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) using the threat of huge monetary damages to cow Greenpeace into silence. Well, with the support of over 600,000 Indians behind us, Greenpeace doesn’t scare easy. Corporate India and the government needs to wake up – the times they are a changing! People will no longer stand to have their oceans and forests destroyed, their biodiversity decimated and their children left a bleak and barren planet.
