---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SADANAND PATWARDHAN <[email protected]> Date: 5 July 2010 10:50 Subject: RE: [Arkitect India] Need your help To: [email protected]
I saw the petition put forward by Green Peace. At one point it says, “*The bill lays down for legal channeling of liability according to which only the operator is responsible in case of a nuclear accident. No civil suits can be initiated against the suppliers or any other person for faulty design or faulty construction. However, countries like the United States lay down for the economic channeling of liability, which makes it possible for law suits to be initiated against anyone in the entire supply claim*”. Sukla Sen had in fact pointed out that this may actually be a good provision as there would be a single agency which is held responsible and this would avoid time consuming, highly expensive and wearisome litigation on complex issues such as who is responsible for what and then apportion accountability. I agree with him. However, bill should provide both explicitly and categorically for Operator’s right to hold suppliers fully responsible for the equipment they supply & ask suppliers to give an undertaking to the operator to indemnify & pay compensation to the extent of their culpability in case of a “Nuclear Accident”. He had also sent a draft letter (* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/message/8232*) that we could study, send as it is, or amend suitably and send. I did that with following two changes. Added an Introduction at the beginning : “The *capping of liabilities* in case of *industrial catastrophes* *externalizes major costs* of projects that are actually *intrinsic to their nature & operations. *This unfairly puts the *burden of mitigating the effects* of *Hazardous Undertakings* on the *society at large* or worse still, *passes such burden to future generations*. If such costs were to be *fully accounted for* & *factored into project feasibility studies*, then it would become crystal clear that the *total costs of such projects far outweigh the potential benefits*. While in the context of present economic model that we have, there is an acute need for energy, fortunately there are better technologies (*Photovoltaic/ Wind/ Tidal/ Micro-hydel* etc.) already available that would generate comparatively cheaply the required energy much faster & in a more eco-friendly manner. Another option is of achieving energy efficiency – Energy saved = Energy Generated (*see calculations here<http://satark.blogspot.com/2009/05/milon-ag-wip-to-led.html> *). For instance, by replacing all the *GLS lamps* in the country with *LED lamps,* one would be able in *less than 2 years* to generate (save) *31,000 Giga Watts Hours of energy/ Annum* at *one sixth the cost of building an equivalent Atomic power plant*, which in any case won’t be ready *until 8 to 10 years*. Considering all these issues, *government should shun the proposal of Subsidizing Atomic Power through capping of liabilities*.” And added a note Under section ‘III”, point 6 : “*Every supplier should give an undertaking to the operator to voluntarily subject himself to the provisions of this clause/ act*”. I believe the Standing Committee of parliament has asked for suggestions & comments, which Sukla’s draft letter provides. Green Peace therefore may consider modifying the draft letter if required, and use their formidable campaigning skills to have as many people they can muster even at this late stage to send it in their names to the Standing Committee. Regards, Sadanand +91 99 234 24 661. *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *[email protected] *Sent:* 03 July 2010 18:50 *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [Arkitect India] Need your help Hi arkitectindia, This is exciting! Along with 187,759 people I signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to hold a public consultation before taking a decision on the nuclear liability bill. These petitions were delivered to the Standing Committee looking at the bill and now they have decided to hold a public consultation. The bill in its current form lets the foreign corporations get away by paying a meagre amount in case of a nuclear accident in India. The major chunk of the expenses will be borne by the Indian tax payers. But now we have a chance to change this bill and make it stronger. Greenpeace, an NGO working on this issue, has prepared an open letter which states the changes required in the bill. Just like the petition, this letter will stand a chance of being considered if lots of us sign it. We have less than two weeks to change the bill and prevent another Bhopal in the making. I have already added my signature. 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