Pratap Chatterjee

ENVIRONMENT: Indigenous Peoples Say Mining Destroys Land And Lives

Mining minerals from coal to uranium has transformed mountains into craters and turned rivers the colour of blood, said representatives of indigenous peoples from some 50 communities around the world, gathered in London this week.

ENVIRONMENT: Ex-Shell Environment Chief For Nigeria Blows Whistle

By Pratap Chatterjee

Shell Nigeria's former environment chief has revealed that the company ignored his repeated warnings that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant's operations in Ogoni territory were violating international standards and causing widespread pollution.

ENVIRONMENT: United Nations Questions Mekong Dam Planners

By Pratap Chatterjee

An international agency that is planning to build dams on the Mekong River in South Asia is under scrutiny from United Nations officials for failing to consult with local people who will be affected by the projects.

FINANCE: World Bank to Offer One-Stop Shopping to Corporations

By Pratap Chatterjee

Private corporations will soon be able to use one-stop shopping at the World Bank to meet financing and insurance needs for projects in developing countries.

ENVIRONMENT: United Nations Questions Mekong Dam Planners

By Pratap Chatterjee

An international agency that is planning to build dams on the Mekong River in South Asia is under scrutiny from United Nations officials for failing to consult with local people who will be affected by the projects.

ENVIRONMENT: Ex-Shell Environment Chief For Nigeria Blows Whistle

By Pratap Chatterjee

Shell Nigeria's former environment chief has revealed that the company ignored his repeated warnings that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant's operations in Ogoni territory were violating international standards and causing widespread pollution.

FINANCE: World Bank to Offer One-Stop Shopping to Corporations

By Pratap Chatterjee

Private corporations will soon be able to use one-stop shopping at the World Bank to meet financing and insurance needs for projects in developing countries.

ENVIRONMENT: Indigenous Peoples Say Mining Destroys Land And Lives

By Pratap Chatterjee

Mining minerals from coal to uranium has transformed mountains into craters and turned rivers the colour of blood, said representatives of indigenous peoples from some 50 communities around the world, gathered in London this week.

ENVIRONMENT: Protests at Mining Meeting Rankle Men in Suit

By Pratap Chatterjee

The shareholder protests which disrupted the annual meeting here this week of Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ), the world's largest mining firm, could be one of the last occasions this device is used -- if the big companies have their way.

ENVIRONMENT: Protests at Mining Meeting Rankle Men in Suit

By Pratap Chatterjee

The shareholder protests which disrupted the annual meeting here this week of Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ), the world's largest mining firm, could be one of the last occasions this device is used -- if the big companies have their way.

HUMAN RIGHTS-FINANCE: California cities divest from Burma

By Pratap Chatterjee

Cities across the United States are applying the strategies used to topple South Africa's apartheid system to protest human rights abuses by the military government of Burma.

ENVIRONMENT: Toxic Waste Lurks off ET Highway

By Pratap Chatterjee

Science fiction enthusiasts are crazy about "E-T Highway" a desert road near Las Vegas in Nevada, so named because of regular spottings of unidentified flying objects.

/ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 1/ ENVIRONMENT: Goldman Award Applauds Courageous ‘Green’ Activists From Six Countries

By Pratap Chatterjee

Edwin Bustillos has survived three attacks on his life in his efforts to protect the forests in the Sierra Madre mountains of northern Mexico.

ENVIRONMENT: Award Applauds ‘Green’ Activists From Six Countries

By Pratap Chatterjee

Edwin Bustillos has survived three attacks on his life in his efforts to protect the forests in the Sierra Madre mountains of northern Mexico.

ENVIRONMENT: Indonesia Gold Mine Gets US Political Risk Insurance

By Pratap Chatterjee

The United States has renewed a 100- million-dollar political risk insurance for the world's largest gold mine in Irian Jaya, the former Dutch colony of West New Guinea which became part of Indonesia in 1963.

/ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 1/ UNITED STATES: California Computer Firms Replace Malaysian Loggers

By Pratap Chatterjee

A Californian computer company has begun what it hopes will spark an economic revolution in the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah on the island of Borneo.

ENVIRONMENT: California Computer Firms Replace Malaysian Loggers

By Pratap Chatterjee

A Californian computer company has begun what it hopes will spark an economic revolution in the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah on the island of Borneo.

/ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 2/ UNITED STATES: Christopher’s Green Foreign Policy Receives Praise and Scepticism

By Pratap Chatterjee

Environmental activists welcome the major new U.S. initiative to incorporate environmental issues into the country's foreign policy but remain sceptical that the United States can match its words with actions.

/ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 1/ UNITED STATES: Unabomber Case Spotlights Radical Environmental Group

By Pratap Chatterjee

The arrest by U.S. federal investigators of a suspect in the case of the mail-bomb anarchist known as the 'Unabomber' has thrown a radical, environment group into the spotlight.

ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH PACIFIC: Gold Mining Plans At Volcano Denounced

By Pratap Chatterjee

Environmentalists are taking issue with a British company's plans to extract gold from beneath a volcano crater on a remote South Pacific island.

ENVIRONMENT: Unabomber Case Spotlights Radical Environmental Group

By Pratap Chatterjee

The arrest by U.S. federal investigators of a suspect in the case of the mail-bomb anarchist known as the 'Unabomber' has thrown a radical, environment group into the spotlight.