Greenpeace Takes Heart From Vedanta

For the past six years Greenpeace has been somewhat unsuccessfully spearheading a campaign against a deep-water port along the coast of Orissa. The first one, Dhamra Port, a joint venture between Tata Steel Ltd. and Larsen & Toubro, is scheduled to begin operations at the end of the year. (One of their efforts involves a Pacman-style video game, over which Tata is now suing them for trademark violation).

In a press conference held Thursday, Greenpeace activist Ashish Fernandes said that the “government is selectively applying forest and environmental laws to corporations," implying that the Government was being partial to Tata. Read the full report here.

Source: by Shruti Chakraborty, The Wall Street Journal.