From The Indian Express, 11 June 2014
Priyadarshi Siddhanta & Amitav Ranjan
An Intelligence Bureau report on foreign-funded NGOs “negatively impacting economic development” in India has called Greenpeace “a threat to national economic security”, citing activities ranging from protests against nuclear and coal plants and funding of “sympathetic” research, to allegedly helping out an Aam Aadmi Party candidate in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
The allegations are part of the IB’s report, dated June 3, submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office. As reported first by The Indian Express, the IB claims the negative impact of the NGOs’ role on GDP growth to be “2-3 per cent per annum”.
The report, signed by IB Joint Director S A Rizvi, accuses Greenpeace of contravening laws to “change the dynamics of India’s energy mix”. The bureau says Greenpeace’s ‘superior network’ of numerous pan-India organisations has helped conduct anti-nuclear agitations and mounted “massive efforts to take down India’s coal fired power plants and coal mining activity”. Greenpeace will take on India’s IT sector over e-waste among other “next targets”, the report says.
While several NGOs are named in the IB’s 21-page report, that lists seven sectors/projects that got stalled because of NGO-created agitations against nuclear power plants, uranium mines, coal-fired power plants, farm biotechnology, mega industrial projects, hydroelectric plants and extractive industries, the main international one singled out for criticism is Greenpeace.
Throughout, the IB report sees Greenpeace as the prime mover of mass-based movements against development projects. “It is assessed to be posing a potential threat to national economic security… growing exponentially in terms of reach, impact, volunteers and media influence,” it notes. The efforts are focused on “ways to create obstacles in India’s energy plans” and to “pressure India to use only renewable energy”.
The report also accuses Greenpeace, “actively aided and led by foreign activists visiting India”, of violating the provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of 2010 (FCRA), and financing “sympathetic studies” at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and at IIT-Delhi.
While FCRA provisions debar organisations getting foreign funding from political activity, former Greenpeace consultant Pankaj Singh stood as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Sidhi Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh in the recent general elections. Mahan coal mines, against which Greenpeace has been protesting, fall under this constituency.
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India is wise.
Bravo!
now for the rest of the world to wake up to these sanctimonious Luddites.
Greenpeace is a terrorist organisation run by the elite and used as a front by Marxist politicians like Obama.
I’m in Mumbai at the moment and this story has just been a topic on the evening national TV news debate programme. It is being reported as a security threat and the “Foreign hand ” conspiracy.
The truth will out, and it has in India!
Richard
If Greenpeace were founded during the stone age, we would never adopt fire as a technology, not sustainable enough.
Good for India, now the rest of the world.
All over the world too:
‘Greenpeace rejoices after getting huge renewable powerplant CANCELLED’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/12/greenpeace_rejoices_after_getting_huge_renewable_powerplant_cancelled/
That’s great ! The whole AGW movement is a national security threat…
Given Pachauri’s incestuous relationship with them, I wonder if he is personna non grata in his own country now.
Ironic when the pendulum starts to swing the other way. Hey! Maybe that AGW Game where that University got federal funds to create some weirdo AGWers are hunted in the future/ apocolypse game won’t go to waste after all! lol
The alarmist for climate change have been calling for skeptics to be put in jail the last few years. But after this finding, if I were them, I wouldn’t vacation in India any time soon or they might find themselves in an over populated Mumbai jail. Wouldn’t that be karma?
The anti-capitalist NGOs use insidious covert influence techniques to infiltrate a society.
The key is to understand how they operate–they build front organizations that attract participants with a “cool” message.
Outlawing them is a first step. But it is very useful to monitor their activities, their local contacts, and their networks, just as you would foreign intelligence operative. Just like a foreign intelligence operative, these fanatics want to destroy your society, economy, and culture.
It’s time we took the same approach in the US.
This is fantastic news.
Bravo! Russia needs to follow on to this ASAP.
“India Labels Greenpeace A ‘Threat To National Economic Security’”
I label them similarly with respect to the U.S.
Wonderful analysis.
Hopefully the current free run these anti-humanist clowns are getting in our society, will be a a precursor to the trials and punishments due to them, under RICO.
Interesting: Enviironmentalism is now ‘soft’ terrorism.
About time.
I don’t sympathize with Green Peace Warriors, but the headline does not make sense: Does any country have a National Economic Security?
From whom did Greenpeace get the foreign funds to support an Indian politician’s candidacy?
Did the Source of these funds know for what purpose the money was going to be put, and that the activity was illegal?
Alternatively, did Greenpeace solicit the funds and misrepresent the final destination and purpose to which it would be put?
INTERPOL may have to sort this out.
I’m down on India most of the time, but this makes up for a lot of it.
The only “green” Greenpeace is interested is the money they can collect for the faux cause. The only “peace” Greenpeace offers is that of their anti-democratic unlawful rule.I hope india dismantles them, siezes their assets and jails their leaders and workers.
And then they can work down the list of so called not-for-profit parasites.
At last, but I think our MSM here in West-Europe will keep silence.
You have to remember that Greenpeace was started as a joke and then things got steadily out of hand.
It is difficult to understand why – unless you are an ecoloon and/or seriously retarded – just why governments fund and trust this organisation to screw up their economies for no economic and environmental benefits whatsoever.
So, India leads the way while western politicians just look goofy.
Greenpeace is an economic threat to the whole world.