{"id":5191,"date":"2010-10-04T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2010-10-05T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:32:11","slug":"indian-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/indian-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Farmers Fight Billionaire Mittal, Posco for Water Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-10-04\/indian-farmers-fight-billionaire-mittal-posco-for-water-rights.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5194\" title=\"101005_india\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/101005_india.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>ArcelorMittal and Posco are leading $80 billion in planned spending in India that would vault the country ahead of Japan as the second-biggest steelmaker. Standing in the way are farmers and their water supply. The farmers refuse to move from irrigated land in three states that hold more than half of India\u2019s reserves of iron ore, a key material to make steel. That\u2019s stymied Prime Minister Manmohan Singh\u2019s ambitions to more than triple India\u2019s steel capacity to 232 million metric tons. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to allow the government to take the land and water and give them to Posco,\u201d said Prasanth Paikare, a spokesman for opposition group Posco Prathirodh Sangram Samiti that says it represents 25,000 farmers. \u201cThe government has promised us land at a new location but there is no good land available in the state now and there won\u2019t be enough water for agriculture,\u201d he said in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-10-04\/indian-farmers-fight-billionaire-mittal-posco-for-water-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: India |  Company: ArcelorMittal, Posco | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-10-04\/indian-farmers-fight-billionaire-mittal-posco-for-water-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArcelorMittal and Posco are leading $80 billion in planned spending in India that would vault the country ahead of Japan as the second-biggest steelmaker. Standing in the way are farmers and their water supply. The farmers refuse to move from irrigated land in three states that hold more than half of India\u2019s reserves of iron&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}