Thanks for sharing this well compiled piece Rajen. This is a good place to
look deeper into some of the issues that you have highlighted.
Allow me to jump-in here, somewhat at random:
A: Earthquake Risk
his implies that any earthquake higher than 8.5 will cause
great devastation to the
These are issues that are not easy to get a good handle on Uttam. I don't
necessarily believe ANY govt.'s claims on such matters. They are, at best,
half-truths.
Having said that, if we look at the Chinese acknowledgement that they are
making a run-of-the-river hydropower tunnel, it does NOT
Chandan Da: Thanks for your views on this point. For me, it is a very balanced
and reasonable view.
These are issues that are not easy to get a good handle on Uttam. I don't
necessarily believe ANY govt.'s claims on such matters. They are, at best,
half-truths.
Having said that, if we
Friends
I wrote something on the Dam issue and the North East, which is posted below,
if it gives any light.
Thanks
Rajen
On the Lower Subansiri and Other
Hydro-Power Projects in North East India
The Rs 7,000-crore Lower Subansiri Project is a
116 m high concrete gravity dam
Mahanta Da,
In the last response, you had stated that owners/ builders of
the Mega Dam are not concerned about a monster dam being felled by an
earth-quake, because, the owner is Indian Government and it is not concerned
about it, as the money spent is only paper-currency. I
I agree with your analysis here Uttam. But it is also true that China cannot
really do serious damage to
the Brahmaputra water flow, precisely because of the scientific reason
explained by mm. MM's China bias
notwithstanding, Indian designs on the waters of Arunachal is the REAl threat
Assam
Chandan Da,
I do not have the temerity to question MM on the technical aspect; I am simply
not qualified to do that. But there is this story of China making a tunnel to
divert Tsang Po: and it is very difficult to rely on the Chinese statements of
denial, because, initially they were even
