RESOLUTION OF THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ORGANIZED BY COMMITTEE ON THE PROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN MANIPUR AT JIRIBAM ON 29TH JULY 2012 CONCERNING THE MANIPUR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD’S PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR OIL EXPLORATION IN MANIPUR AT JIRIBAM, PARBUNG AND NUNGBA ON 30 JULY, 8 AND 17 AUGUST 2012

The participants of the public consultation organized at Jiribam on 29th July 2012 to discuss the issues and challenges of Public Hearings on Petroleum Exploration in Manipur scheduled at Jiribam, Parbung and Nungba respectively on 30 July 2012, 7th and 17th August 2012 resolves to:

Resolution adopted at the State Level Convention on Petroleum Exploration in Manipur organized by the JAC on Protection of Hydrocarbon &Resources, All Zeliangrong Students Union, Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur, Naga Women’s Union , North East Dialogue Forum, Lifewatch, Zomi Human Rights Foundation, Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organization, Action Committee Against Tipaimukh Project, Citizens Concern for Dams and Development, Tamenglong Village Authority, Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, Human Rights Initiative at Manipur Press Club, 16 July 2012

The participants of the State Level convention on Petroleum Exploration in Manipur organized at Manipur Press Club on 16 July 2012 hereby:

The Government of India through its Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had granted license to Jubiliant Oil and Gas Private Limited (JOGPL), based in Netherlands for exploration and drilling works in two oil blocks in Manipur located in the Jiribam (Imphal East), Tamenglong and Churachandpur districts of Manipur, without informing and taking the consent of all indigenous peoples of Manipur. The contracts were awarded under the eighth round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) of the Government of India. Earlier, without informing the people of Manipur again, the Government had undertaken series of promotions globally in 2003 and 2009 to promote the oil blocks in Manipur along with others through road-shows in major cities worldwide, London, Houston, Calgary and Perth etc, inviting bids to Oil companies.

The Durban Package: escape hatches, empty shells, and a death notice to equity<
IBON assessment of the Durban climate change summit

The next ten years could decide whether the world’s fight against climate change is lost or won. The Durban Package – the set of decisions agreed to in the summit – amounts to more heavy lifting for the South, less obligations for the North, and little help for the poor. Worse still, it means that the present decade will be a decade of zero progress in curbing global emissions, and one where equity as the basis of the global climate effort will have been abandoned.

13 December 2011
Published by Third World Network
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Major clash of paradigms in launch of new climate talks

Geneva, 13 December (Meena Raman) – The main outcome of the two-week Durban climate change conference was the launching of a new round of negotiations known as the Durban Platform aimed at a new regime (whether a protocol or other legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and involving all countries.