What this proves to me is that people in Goa even the good intentioned
and educated ones, have not understood yet the real and serious
implications of mining in Goa.
I have not seen the programme, going to try and catch it tonight. The
confusion in people's minds about legal and illegal mining persists!
What people don't realise is that the legality or illegality of mining
in Goa IS NOT THE ISSUE. The real issue is the nature of the strip
mining industry - the level of irreversible destruction of nature, water
resources , people's health and so on. Also people forget that there are
alternatives to mining in Goa - a whole range of sustainable and green
industries that are more in tune with the sensitive and fragile ecology
of Goa. There are a lot of myths about the mining industry in Goa that
we need to dispel.
Next November I will try to give several talks on mining in Goa to raise
awareness and tell the inconvenient truths about mining in Goa.
Illegality is a problem, but compared with the negative impact on
nature, illegality is the least of our problems.
Carmen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Eddie Fernandes
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks to you Andrea, I found the archive to the programme you refer
to. Wendell is 7minutes and 15 minutes 30 secs. into the programme at
http://goo.gl/fnEyJ
The programme is to be transmitted again tonight:
Goa’s Mining Scam: Live Webstream tonight
27 Sep: 21:00 to 22:00 UK time (Wed 01:30 to 02:30 IST). NDTV 24 X7
brings you India Decides: Goa’s Mining Scam.
Watch it via the internet (after downloading NDTV Play) by going to
http://www.ndtv.com/video/live/channel/ndtv24x7
Alternatively watch it on TV (NDTV can be found in the UK on Sky TV
Channel 511; US on DirecTV; Canada on ATN; Australia on Vision Asia;
Europe on WorldTV).
Eddie Fernandes
www.goanvoice.org.uk
