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DAM-L IRN Condemns Court Go Ahead for Sardar Sarovar Dam/LS (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:42:17 -0800
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From: lori@irn.org (Lori Pottinger)
Subject: IRN Condemns Court Go Ahead for Sardar Sarovar Dam/LS
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This is about a recent judgement on India's Sardar Sarovar Project, which I
know is not Africa, but many Africans have been following the NBA's
struggle against this awful dam. This is very sad news.
Lori
>International Rivers Network
>Berkeley, California
>www.irn.org
>
>PRESS RELEASE
>
>For Immediate Release: October 18, 2000
>Contact: Patrick McCully (510) 543 3317
>
>IRN Condemns Indian Supreme Court Go Ahead for Sardar Sarovar Dam
>
>International Rivers Network strongly condemns today's majority
>ruling by the Indian Supreme Court allowing construction to resume on
>the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River. "The ruling is utterly
>illogical and an insult to democracy and justice," said Patrick
>McCully, Campaigns Director of International Rivers Network.
>
>The Sardar Sarovar Project is one of the world's most controversial
>dam projects and would forcibly displace more people than any other
>infrastructure project in the world except for China's notorious
>Three Gorges Dam. "Sardar Sarovar symbolizes an outdated and
>internationally discredited approach to water management," Patrick
>McCully added.
>
>The Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement) filed their
>case against Sardar Sarovar in 1994. The NBA presented the court
>with evidence showing that the project will not work as planned, that
>alternatives are available, that the necessary environmental studies
>have not been done, and that proper rehabilitation of the hundreds of
>thousands of people who would lose their livelihoods to the project
>is impossible. The NBA have for more than a decade led a mass
>campaign of non-violent resistance to the dam.
>
>The court had stalled construction on the part-built dam wall for
>most of the past six years. But the final ruling allows the height of
>the dam to be raised by five meters immediately and then in further
>five-meter stages based on approval from government committees which
>have shown themselves to be controlled by pro-dam interests.
>
>One of the three judges on the Supreme Court bench, Justice S.P.
>Bharucha, issued a dissenting opinion stating that construction
>should be stopped pending new environmental studies.
>
>The court has given project authorities four weeks to draw up a plan
>for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the 200,000 people to be
>displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Reservoir. A resettlement plan for
>Sardar Sarovar was supposed to have been completed in 1981. "If the
>authorities can't produce a credible plan in nearly two decades, how
>can they write one in a month?", Patrick McCully asks.
>
>Several hundred thousand other people will lose - or have already
>lost - their livelihoods to irrigation canals, housing for
>construction workers, the desiccation of the river downstream of the
>dam, and a wildlife reserve planned to compensate for the ecosystems
>to be flooded.
>
>IRN is a California-based environment and human rights organization
>which supports the rights of communities facing the impacts of
>destructive water projects and advocates for sustainable and
>equitable water and energy management.
>
>--##--
>
>For more on the reaction to the Supreme Court judgement go to www.narmada.org
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Patrick McCully
>Campaigns Director
>International Rivers Network
>1847 Berkeley Way
>Berkeley, CA 94703, USA
>Tel. +1 510 848 1155
>Fax. +1 510 848 1008
>www.irn.org
>
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Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
and Editor, World Rivers Review
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
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