I agree with you Frederick. Furthermore, it seems to me that under the circumstances, Mahatma Gandhi's famous advise to " think globally and act locally" is relevant here. ....
I have not yet seen any critical analyses from the environmental or any point of view of the mining industry in Goa by Dr Kamat. He should consider stopping going round in circles digging out irrelevant information from the internet to distract us from his links with the mining industry in Goa. His precious time and knowledge would be better spent instead to ensure the mining industry in Goa at least complies with rules and regulations and work with the people trying to ensure this industry's expansion in Goa is stopped and ensure the expansion never takes place in the future. The devastation of our forests and water resources, the pollution and siltation of our rivers and agricultural lands, the disturbance and destruction of our wildlife habitat, the irreversible damage to our environment , the 12.000 mining trucks causing 5 kilometers long triffic jams, the death of Mandovi and Zuari estuaries, the health problems caused by dust and heavy metals in the foodchain in Goa, the arrogance and lack of respect for the laws and regulations of the land by the mining industry - these are the issues that we need to focus on, and need to be tackled immediately and urgently. We need more voices to join our protest and struggles, more capacity, informed people, to join our struggle agains the menace of mining industry in Goa. There is no time to waste, as the destruction by the mining industry is rapid and of gigantic proportions. By the time we wake up and get our act together, there might not be any Goa left to save and protect. Carmen Miranda From: Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplicity digest-II Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Nandu, I'm not sure conspiracy theories can explain the growing concern over mining in Goa today. To my mind, this concern is probably linked to two recent events (i) the shrinking grasp of the mining lobby on the print media in Goa (though it is growing in the audio-visual media) (ii) the spurt in Chinese purchases from Goa reflecting their ore-hunger. For instance, the five-kilometre-long mining truck traffic jams in interior Goa that Pandu Lampiao spoke about (and I saw too) were probably never witnessed in the past. I can't imagine how this can continue without affecting a whole lot of people rather adversely. FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 On 22 June 2010 16:39, Dr.Nandkumar Kamat <[email protected]> wrote > The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplicity digest-II > Previous part contained examples of Canadian mining pollution and > suppression of data on their toxic waste from the people and Canadian NGOs > Canada has long term plans to take over mines in India through its? powerful > MNCs and the grounds are being prepared slowly?. > An ambitious agenda has been drawn? > The Canadian crown corporation IDRC promotes Canadian mining interests > It supported a study in Nilgiris > It funded a TERI project on Goa?s mines > It is a major donor to PANOS > But those who take support from IDRC and Canada had been and continue to be > strangely silent on the havoc caused by Canadian mining in resource rich > poor countries?.
