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Zambian villagers win right to have pollution case heard in Britain
2016-05-27 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eighteen hundred Zambian villagers claiming to have had their water supplies polluted and their health affected by a giant mining companys subsidiary have won the right to have their case heard in the British courts rather than in Zambia. Vedanta, which is headquartered in London, had argued strongly in the high court that the villagers case against them and their subsidiary, KCM, should be heard in Zambia, where the alleged pollution took place near the town of Chingola and the giant Nchanga...
Surrounded by diamonds, villagers go hungry in drought-hit Zimbabwe
2016-02-08 06:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Shylet Mutsago, a 63-year-old who lives near the diamond fields of Marange, cannot hide her anger over how mining in this gem-rich part of eastern Zimbabwe has failed to improve the lives of local people. From a distance she watches as companies turn the ground over in search of the alluvial diamonds, releasing clouds of red dust into the sky. "Our hopes of benefiting from the diamonds are gone," she said. "And with this severe drought we are now placing our lives in the hands of God. We are living...
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China's nuclear vision collides with villagers' fears
2015-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: This placid, leafy hamlet tucked beside a dam in the countryside hardly seems like the next testing ground over Chinas efforts to cut smog and greenhouse gases. But here among cornfields and crumbling stone homes skirted by persimmon trees, the government intends to build a nuclear power plant. They want to build it here, right here, said Wang Jiuxing, a retired village official, tapping his foot outside a dilapidated general store, 540 miles west of Shanghai in Chinas central Henan Province....
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VIDEO: Indian villagers get 'on the web'
2015-07-31 13:52:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How does being online really change things for people living far from India's big cities?
Villagers turn to civil disobedience against third runway at Heathrow
2015-07-19 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With its 11th century church, listed buildings and 15th century timber barn managed by English Heritage, Harmondsworth is a paean to reverence, tradition and antiquity. Faced with destruction of their village as they know it to make way for a third runway at Heathrow, however, some residents have begun to adopt irreverent tactics, such as civil disobedience, as they fight to save their way of life. That campaign escalated sharply last Monday, when 13 individuals cut through the patrolled perimeter...
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