When even an Indian member of the Liberal Party can’t bear to listen to this ignorant BS any more (ODT)

My parents are skilled Indian migrants, I’ve been a Liberal Party member since I turned 17, I’m a small-l liberal feminist, and I believe climate change is a national emergency.

Landry argued that profits from the Adani coal mine would be “going to hundreds of millions of Indians who do not have electricity … this is about women and families that are cooking over open fires in huts. They are burning cow dung. There is little ventilation in those huts.”

The poor are also the collateral of Adani’s ongoing expansion. Sixteen residents of four villages recently filed a motion in the Jharkhand High Court to set aside the government’s acquisition of their land (for an Adani project) as fraudulent and illegal. They argue the legally-required consent of 80 per cent of villagers was not obtained. Then there’s evidence of Adani’s shell companies linked to tax havens, proving later charitable giving seems unlikely.Mumbai – the only place Adani is an electricity provider in India – experienced a 50 per cent increase in its electricity bills after Adani took over.

The poor are also the collateral of Adani’s ongoing expansion. Sixteen residents of four villages recently filed a motion in the Jharkhand High Court to set aside the government’s acquisition of their land (for an Adani project) as fraudulent and illegal. They argue the legally-required consent of 80 per cent of villagers was not obtained. Then there’s evidence of Adani’s shell companies linked to tax havens, proving later charitable giving seems unlikely.

So let’s be clear on who Landry and Adani are helping. It isn’t poor Indian women. Pretty simply, there’s no evidence that it’s anybody except themselves and their bottom line.

Adani no saviour of India’s poor, despite the rhetoric