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8/3/2009
3:17:45 pm EDT
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Himachal Women Tie Rakhis To Protect Trees
Author: Economic Times Source: Economic Times (India)
Title: HIMACHAL WOMEN TIE RAKHIS TO PROTECT TREES
In a throwback to the Chipko movement to save trees in the seventies, the Rakhi festival has turned into a rallying point for hundreds of village women near here as they pledge to protect their 'brother' trees that will be drowned by the Renuka hydroelectric project.
Women from villages near this town in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district are tying rakhis -- a sacred thread symbolising the brother-sister bond -- on the trees as the dam aimed at providing drinking water to New Delhi will inundate them.
"It's a noble way to draw the attention of dam authorities to the voluminous damage to biodiversity in the area with its construction," said Rukhmani Devi of Mohtu village, situated on the banks of the Giri river.
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| Whenever An Economic Or Political Need Rises, | Aug 4th. at 3:10:49 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
It's people 1 nature 0.
No one is going to care about Polar Bears and Penguins as long as there is something to be exploited under their ice.
That's why National Parks are shrinking in places, except in places where something nasty is likely to be going on. After all,No one can clear out a place faster that Mother Nature in her fury. That's why you don't see hotels on the sides of Mount St. Helens.
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| Sickening.... | Aug 3rd. at 10:28:19 pm EDT
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
Why is it that when a city needs more electricity, it is the communities hundreds of miles UPSTREAM that are made to suffer? I have always heard the Capitalist Corporations, when an endangered or protected species is in the path of "progress", I have always heard them cry "People first!". Yet, when it is a question of cheap power versus rural communities, it is the cheap power that seems to always win out.
Which is more important: Money, or People (and, by extension, the land they live on) ? If they say anything resembling "Better a few are displaced so that many may have a better life", they have chosen Money.
By choosing Money over doing what is Right and Just, they also choose Greed.
--nasionnaich
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| Economic Benefits? | Aug 3rd. at 7:22:04 pm EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"The villagers agitating against the dam say the government did not take them into confidence before starting the land acquisition process. According to them, the project may have ecological repercussions and endanger the Renuka lake, which lies downstream of the proposed dam and is of religious importance to them.
Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (HPPCL) managing director Tarun Kapoor, however, said the government would provide more compensation to the affected villagers. The HPPCL, a public sector undertaking, is executing the project.
"The government will provide 100 units of power free for 10 years to each of the project-affected families, besides a series of other economic benefits," he said. "
Is the village to be denied any future, beyond a decade? Where will their children fish? What will happen to India, when their ancestors are forgotten?
Why is the future of a neighboring village being sacrificed to a New Delhi Property Developer?
Let's compare this to Owens Valley, and pray they have enough Silk.
Arawn
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