INDIA: Protests Overshadow Communist State’s Chemical Hub Plans

by: admin Thursday, January 14th, 2010

KOLKATA, India, Jan 14 (IPS) - An ambitious plan to establish a chemical industry
complex in an ecologically fragile coastal zone of India’s
eastern state, West Bengal, has snowballed into a debate, with
the ruling communists facing resistance from environmental groups
and political rivals over the project.

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