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Baghjan: Affected Villagers Launch Road Blockade Demanding Compensation
18 Sep 2020
The villagers, who have set up makeshift camps on the road, claim that despite the fire raging at the oil well for over three months, they are still facing delays in payment of compensation.
Ayaskant Das
Did Modi Govt Tweak Green Laws to Allow Oil and Gas Exploration in Assam’s Rainforests?
19 Aug 2020
The OIL has proposed in its project report that hydrocarbons will be extracted by drilling seven wells beneath the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park using the modern state-of-the-art technology called ‘…
PTI
OIL’s Second Attempt to Cap Baghjan Gas Well Fire Fails, Iron Cable Snaps
10 Aug 2020
Well no 5 at Baghjan in Assam has been spewing gas uncontrollably for 76 days, displacing thousands of villagers and damaging the area’s ecology.
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Baghjan Oil Well: Nearly 2 Months After Explosion, Fire Continues to Rage
24 Jul 2020
Three foreign experts who were involved in the control operations reportedly sustained burn injuries after another explosion on July 22.
Jean Jores Pierre
PetroCaribe and Haiti’s Lost Opportunities
24 Jul 2020
Haitian activist and economist Jean Jores Pierre argues that the mismanagement of the PetroCaribe agreement and funds by the Haitian government first and foremost affects the people of Haiti who…
D. Raghunandan
Baghjan Oil Field Fire: A Prelude to Ecological Disaster in North East
16 Jun 2020
Only an independent inquiry committee of experts under judicial supervision can ascertain the full facts about the blowout that has extensively damaged human life, habitat, livelihoods and the…
M.K. Bhadrakumar
NATO Returns to Libya to Challenge Russia
31 May 2020
The Trump administration has mooted the idea of hosting a G-7 summit in the US next month to pick all the low-hanging fruit.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Why the OPEC+ Deal is a Many-Splendoured Thing
16 Apr 2020
The world’s oil producers are joining together for the largest cooperative production initiative in history.
Neelambaran A
Fifth Round of Bidding Announced for Hydrocarbon Exploration
17 Jan 2020
Even as the farmers of delta region were protesting against the exploration in the onland areas, the present announcement has set the alarm bells ringing in the fishing community.
Govt ‘Haste’ to Privatise BPCL Worries Employees, as Global Monopolies Eye Expansion
09 Oct 2019
The profit-making PSU’s employees have written to PMO, cautioning it about private monopolies taking over oil sector