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Environmental Justice Atlas
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place.
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A PLANET IN DANGER: the world of CHEVRONChevron is well known around the world as a company that systematically applies the "Polluter does not Pay Principle". This scholar-activist collaborative mapping project shows stories of communities reclaiming justice. #DíaAntiChevron |
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Climate DebtThe overconsumption of the available capacity of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system to absorb greenhouse gases by the developed countries has run up a climate debt to developing countries and Mother Earth. |
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Permanent Peoples Tribunal Hearing on Corporate Human Rights Violations and Peoples Access to JusticeOn the first anniversary of the UNHRC resolution to address corporate abuses, this Feature Map updates the state of some cases presented in the Geneva PPT Hearing. More to be reported very soon. |
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Fracking FrenzyThe high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, generates serious and large-scale environmental and human health concerns. |
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Environmental Justice in Himachal Pradesh, IndiaEJAtlas collaboration with Himdhara collective. Despite the image of a "green state", the Himalayan state pursue increasing energy generation and industrial development by diluting laws and ignoring dissent. |
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Mining conflicts in Latin AmericaThe mining conflicts featured map presents cases of mining conflicts related to metal ores, industrial minerals and construction materials mining activities. Metal ores present the largest number of reported cases. |
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Seed laws around the worldUnder corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. This map gives a picture of of the situation across the world today. |
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Gilgel Gibe III hydro dam, Ethiopia The third largest hydroelectric plant in Africa (1870 MW), and part of a series of facilities in cascade on the river Omo, is a top business for Italian and Chinese companies but drives the country into shameful violence against local inhabitants |
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Korle Lagoon Restoration Project and displacement from Accra's Old Fadama Slum, Ghana When the slum gets in the way of tourism development, a flood opens opportunity. The government is using natural disasters as a reason to unilaterally determine the fate of the slum, while ignoring the rights of the people who are impacted |
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Walmart store in Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexico El ayuntamiento y pobladores de Cuetzalan rechazaron la instalación de una Bodega Aurrerá -tienda de la cadena Wal Mart, bajo el argumento del daño económico, cultural y medioambiental que traería consigo. |
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Locals of Nuweiba stopped the construction of a power plant by the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, which would have had a detrimental effect on the environment and tourism in the area. |
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Ohrid-Prespa Biosphere Reserve threatened by tourism plans, Macedonia Wetland drainage, an express road, a ski-resort & tourism development zones imminently threaten ancient Lake Ohrid, National Park Galichica & the UNESCO Ohrid-Prespa Biosphere Reserve. |
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800 MW CCGT Power Plant in Arrúbal, Spain The plant started to operate for Gas Natural in 2005, but it was sold to ContourGlobal in 2011. Its two groups of 400MW hardly operates, but when they do, they consume high amounts of water from the Ebro and emit toxics. Only few local residents mobilize. |