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• Giant toxic waste incinerator in Okhla's Sukhdev Vihar violates many laws, affects entire Delhi

  8 February, by Krishna
  Delhi mayor claimed he knew nothing about the project - has never visited the site of the plant being built by Jindal Ecopolis. The plant is functioning since 1st January 2012 amidst residents bitter protest and outrage. Its not about Sukhdev Vihar or Okhla alone whole of Delhi is turning into (...)
  

• Why I resigned over Bhopal

  1 February, by Krishna
  A true Olympic legacy would be for Dow Chemical to shoulder responsibility for the 1984 tragedy Meredith Alexander guardian.co.uk, 26 January 2012 Like most people, when I hear the word Bhopal, it conjures up the most horrible images in my mind's eye. In December 1984 a highly toxic gas was (...)
  

• Boycott London Olympics over Dow sponsorship row, demands MP Chief Minister

  30 January, by Krishna
  BHOPAL: Taking up fight on behalf of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday demanded that India should boycott the London Olympics if Dow Chemicals' remains its sponsor. "Bharat is now an economic superpower and not a feeble nation. Either (...)
  

• Okhla plant chokes colonies

  30 January, by Krishna
  Neha Lalchandani NEW DELHI: A fine layer of sooty dust covers the cars that line Sukhdev Vihar's roads. Clothes hung out to dry turn black by evening. A pungent smell of rotting waste permeates the air attracting a host of raptors that would ordinarily be found circling over landfill sites. (...)
  

• Residents fume over trial run of incinerator

  30 January, by Krishna
  Bindu Shajan Perappadan Despite sustained public protests and lawsuits against the Timarpur-Okhla waste-to-energy incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar, the beginning of trial runs this January 2 has invited the ire of the residents of this densely populated area. “The incinerator is located in a (...)
  

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