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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Activists dub report on Kudankulam flawed

Activists dub report on Kudankulam flawed

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published Published on Nov 28, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 28, 2011

-The Hindu

 

The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Sunday slammed the report of the Government-appointed expert committee on Kudankulam as being extremely flawed, premised on obsolete demographic data and opaque on the risks from sub-volcanic activity near the site or health impact on the local population.

The PMANE also released a letter to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa seeking her intervention in scrapping the project.

In the letter to the Chief Minister–copies of which were circulated to media – PMANE leaders flayed the Expert Group for ignoring valid questions on liability and declining to give specific or scientific information on nuclear waste or the fresh water needs of the KKNPP. The Expert Group had not talked to any section of the public nor tried to allay the fears and concerns of the people.

‘Canards'

The letter also took exception to the Central government's “campaign of canards” about the anti-nuke activists receiving foreign funds, support and guidance to drive a wedge in the movement and sought to reassure the Chief Minister that there was not an iota of truth in these charges.

Addressing the media, PMANE leaders said the Expert Group's report only confirmed the worst fears of the people that the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd had “cut corners, compromised on safety and failed to perform statutory due diligence” in pushing the nuclear energy project. PMANE will submit its own point-by-point rebuttal of the report to the Governments at the Centre and State in a couple of days, besides tabling it before the people.

M. G. Devasahayam, former bureaucrat and convenor of the PMANE panel, called the Central Expert Group's report extremely flawed on fundamental grounds as it relied on 2001 Census figures instead of the 2011 data and claimed environmental impact assessment and CRZ clearances in 1989 when such norms did not exist.

V. Suresh, national secretary, People's Union for Civil Liberties, too flayed the Central Experts Group for submitting a report containing ‘half-truths'.


The Hindu, 28 November, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2666566.ece


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