US Denies Pressuring India On Bhopal Tragedy
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 8,
August 2010
The outcry over the e-mail exchange between a U.S. official and top Indian bureaucrat reflects growing doubts among many Indians — both in the government and outside it — about the human and environmental costs of India's rapid economic growth, analysts say.
The push back against big business has forced the government to strengthen safeguards in a bill to limit liability for nuclear companies in India — a crucial prerequisite for U.S. companies like GE seeking to build nuclear power plants here. It has also galvanized the Ministry of Environment, which is trying to quash billions of dollars worth of projects by South Korea's Posco Steel, U.K.-listed Vedanta Resources, and Jindal Power — a powerful Indian conglomerate — on environmental grounds. Read the full report here.
Source: by Erika Kinetz, Associated Press, Mumbai, India.
