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| World
Bank Funding Pollution In India |
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| The Indian state
of Gujarat, birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, has launched
a campaign to attract more than $12 billion dollars in
investment for its massively polluting chemical industry.
It is actively lobbying the World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank to fund an industry that is already devastating Indian
communities. |
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| More than 200
people, including Greenpeace activists, organized a
sit-in at the Common Effluent Treatment Plant on the
banks of the Damanganga River at the Vapi Industrial
Estate located in Gujarat. The activists closed the
discharge valves at the "treatment" plant,
which in fact continues to discharge dangerous levels
of poisonous heavy metals, including mercury, into the
river. |
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| Ironically, the
World Bank is touting this plant as a good solution to
Gujarat's pollution problems. Greenpeace believes that
World Bank funding needs to be targeted to cleaning up
existing environmental problems and helping the state
of Gujarat develop effective environmental regulation. |
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