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9:20 AM

India's climate action plan promotes ecologically destructive nuclear power & incineration based waste to energy

Written By mediavigil on Monday, October 19, 2015 | 9:20 AM

Nuclear facilities are unclean, unsafe and an economic liability throughout their life span

October 2, 2015: Government has communicated India’s voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) for the period 2021 to 2030. It has promised to “reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33 to 35 percent by 2030 from 2005 level” ahead of the adoption of the Paris Climate Change agreement in December 2015. Emissions intensity refers to the ratio between gross emissions and a country’s GDP at a particular point in time.

India’s 38 page long INDC is available at:  http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/India/1/INDIA%20INDC%20TO%20UNFCCC.pdf

Notably, the implementation of the promises is “contingent upon an ambitious global agreement including additional means of implementation to be provided by developed country parties, technology transfer and capacity building following Article 3.1 and 4.7 of the Convention.” United Nations UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which India signed on 10th June 1992 and ratified it on 1st November 1993. Under the UNFCCC, countries like India do not have binding Green House Gases (GHGs) mitigation commitments in recognition of their small contribution to the greenhouse problem as well as low financial and technical capacities.

While it is true that “both in terms of cumulative global emissions (only 3%) and per capita emission (1.56 tCO 2 e in 2010), India’s contribution to the problem of climate change is limited”, the fact is that ‘Make in India’ kind of initiative paves the for transfer of hazardous and polluting industries to India.

In the aftermath of Fukushima nuclear disaster, while countries are moving away from nuclear energy, India’s INDC shows that it is “promoting Nuclear Power as a safe, environmentally benign and economically viable source to meet the increasing electricity needs of the country.” The fact is that nuclear plants spew cancer-causing pollutants into air and water. nuclear power does not meet “clean energy standard”. It does factor in serious risks of exposure of radioactive radiation. This radiation is toxic, persistent and long lasting pollutant. Nuclear power releases radioactive carbon. They are carbon-intensive to build, since they require enormous amounts of concrete, steel and carbon-based fuels for transport of materials, workers, etc. The nuclear fuel chain necessary to support reactor operations, which consists of uranium mining, milling, processing, enrichment and fuel fabrication, then shipment of fuel to reactors, then reactor operation and hundreds of years of radioactive waste storage results in large amount of unavoidable carbon emissions. The fact of radiation being invisible and odorless cannot be used to refer to it as safe and benign. Such propositions are an exercise in sophistry. INDC has ignored that countries such as Australia, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Norway have no nuclear power reactors and remain opposed to nuclear power. Germany has announced its plan to close all its reactors by 2022. It disregards the fact that globally, wind power and solar power has been increasing. It feigns amnesia about Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) which underlines that investment in renewable is advisable because renewable energy is likely to account for as much as 77 percent of the world‘s energy demand by 2050.

There is no denying the fact that “Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission)”, which is mentioned in India’s INDC merits involvement of all but the rate at which richer countries are transferring their waste to India in myriad disguises with support from government agencies makes such “Mission” by government self-contradictory. So far Abhiyan has failed to stop movement of waste from richer localities to poorer localities, from urban areas to rural areas within the country and put a ban on dumping of waste by developed countries. Eve as the country has been crying for cleanliness drive for long, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has failed to go beyond verbal gymnastics. Out of 180 cities that have been monitored in India for SO2, NO2 and PM10 in only two towns Malapuram and Pathanamthitta in Kerala met the criteria of low pollution.

India’s INDC makes a promise about “Reducing emissions from waste” but government continues to promote waste incineration based thermal power plants which admittedly emits green house gases as per Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC adopted in 1997 besides persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals. India had acceded to the Kyoto Protocol on 26th August 2002. In the first commitment Parties (37 industrialized countries and the European Community) agreed to reduce GHG emissions to an average of five percent against 1990 levels as per the Protocol period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. In the second commitment period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2020 as per "Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol" for Annex I Parties to the Kyoto Protocol who agreed to take on commitments Parties agreed to reduce GHG emissions by at least 18 percent below 1990 levels in the eight-year period from 2013 to 2020. But the composition of Parties in the second commitment period is different from the first and there are 38 Parties listed in Annex B in the Doha Amendment that have quantified emission limitation or reduction targets for the second commitment period.

The ultimate objective of UNFCCC and any related legal instruments is that the Conference of the Parties (COP) may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.

UNFCCC’s text refers to “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” which in reality is an act of industrial warfare against climate and its allied ecosystem whose impact has become glaring. Its continued relevance for the communities of shared fate and global order is linked to the decision by the richest countries to undergo mandatory de-addiction.

Notably, industrialized countries have committed to implementing quantified economy-wide emissions targets for 2020. Developing countries like India are supposed to prepare Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) that are in line with their national development objectives. NAMAs aim to reduce their emissions below business as usual by 2020.

Ahead of Paris climate meeting by end of 2015, world’s biggest polluter of GHGs, China has already submitted its voluntary INDC to the Secretariat of UNFCCC. Now that India too has submitted its INDC comparisons between its commitment and similar commitments by China, USA and EU will occupy the centre stage.  The other top polluters, USA and EU have already submitted their INDCs. Paris agreement on climate is significant for dealing with climate crisis from 2020 onwards.

China aims to achieve the peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030. It plans to lower carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 60 % to 65 % from the 2005 level. If China complies with these commitments, it would emit some 16-17 billion tones of GHGs instead of emitting 22 billion tonnes in 2030 in a business as usual scenario. In 2030, China’s per capita emissions is likely to be about 12 tonnes.

Such announcements by the top polluters are far from what is required based on scientific evidence in order to limit global temperature rise by 2°C. There was a need to cut emissions to the tune of 70 % below 2010 levels by 2050 to be on the path of limiting 2°C temperature increase.

France is hosting the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21) from November 30th to December 11th, 2015. COP21 aims to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C.

The 2015 agreement will only come into effect and be implemented from 2020. The Doha Amendment covers the pre - 2020 period, which is critical in the overall mitigation effort to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2° C above pre - industrial levels.

Notably, China has entered into an agreement with the USA wherein it has agreed to match its emissions with that of the USA at an enormous 12 tonnes per capita per year in 2030, thus, appropriating the carbon space between them. This in a situation wherein corporations have emerged as the state and in another case, state is the corporation. The state of affairs in most countries is moving in the same direction because of the regulatory capture by the corporations.  

On the other hand, satisfying their energy demands on the face of lopsided economic growth the Asian countries have increased their emissions solely depending on thermal powers. Coal-based power provides 40 per cent of global electricity. It emits one-third of global carbon dioxide. This is contributing to climate crisis. China has become the largest CO2 emitters in the world followed by India, which is responsible for 1.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year. Over 65 per cent of India’s power generation comes from coal. But coal mining is destroying forests, water sources and livelihoods of the poorest.

Notably, China’s total GHG emissions are likely to be 16-17 billion tonnes and its per capita emissions would be 12 tonnes by 2030. On both counts, it is four times larger in comparison to India.

The submissions by top polluters who also happen to be top profit makers has not made arrangements to pay the “ecological debt” that global north owes to the south. The fact remains that there is north in the global south-the elite of the southern countries like India who appear to have seceded and joined the elite of the global north clouding decision making based on common but differentiated historical responsibility. 
Under the current global economic system, the commodifying and monetizing of nature is not only interfering with climate and allied ecosystems but is also depriving resource dependent communities of their rights. Besides this it is also attracting private and public corporations to control natural resources. This has created an episteme that blindly bulldozes technical and market solutions as “real” solutions.  

For all the living species, human civilization and for all existing institutions, demand of artificial persons, the business enterprises is exceeding the planet's bio-capacity to a dangerous level. Some estimates suggest that it has already exceeded by 20 percent.

For several years, the formal initiatives to mitigate and adapt to impacts of climate change has largely been unsuccessful because of an embedded insincerity of the institutions involved. They fail to decode the shared fate in the global village which is faced with climate induced emergencies and disasters. So far the existing institutions have failed to make corporations in general and transnational corporations in particular liable for “dangerous anthropogenic interference”. These artificial persons continue to enjoy the privilege of limited liability despite being guilty of endangering human ecosystem which is the substratum for the existence of living beings.

Notably, the First session of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights is drafting a treaty for mandatory regulation of TNCs and other enterprises. Such initiatives underway since 1970s are germane to the efforts to combat TNCs contribution in causing global warming.   

India’s INDC missed the opportunity of taking an ethical leadership by submitting a new, non-market, climate finance mechanism is needed to support the formalization and expansion of mitigation and technology transfer as a genuine solution to combat the propensity of promoting free trade in carbon at the cost of climate system.  



For Details: Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), Mb: 08227816731, 09818089660
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3:42 AM

Villages boycotted Environment Public Hearing for Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power Plant

Written By Krishna on Friday, March 08, 2013 | 3:42 AM

Illegal Public Hearing held on 5-3-2013 at 10-30 a.m. at Navagam (Nana) for Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power Plant in violation of Environmental Laws and the Constitution of India.
Around 4,500 people of 28 villages boycotted Environment Public Hearing following breach of promise by Government officials
The Bhavnagar District Collector who chaired the Environment Public Hearing(EPH) for the 6,000 MW Nuclear Power Plant at Mithi Virdi to be set up by the ‘Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited’ and Mr A V Shah, the regional officer of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) made vital procedural lapses during the hearing.
But when villagers wearing black bands to protest the EPH being held with incomplete EIA report entered the venue, they were first prevented with officials demanding that the black protest ribbons be removed. It is only when the villagers insisted that they were allowed in.
They did not allow the villagers to make representation about procedural issues of Environment Public Hearing and instead continued the proceedings with incomplete Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report prepared by unaccredited consultants, as a result rendering the EPH illegal violating the environment rules and the Constitution of India.
Mr A V Shah, Regional Office of GPCB had promised two activists Rohit Prajapati and Swati Desai just before the proceedings were to start on March 5 that Mr. Shaktisinh Gohil, Sarpanch of Jasapara will be allowed and representations about procedural lapses can be made by villagers. But when Mr. Shaktisinh Gohil, the Sarpanch of Jaspara village rose to make procedural points about the lapses in the EPH, he was prevented from doing so. Mr Shaktisinh Gohil was highlighting four major lapses:
1.      The EIA Report for NPCIL has been prepared by Engineers India Limited. According to EIL's own admission it does not have the requisite Ministry of Environment and Forest accreditation to undertake the Environmental Impact Assessment. The EIA Report is therefore illegal. *(See note below)
2.   The EIL report was incomplete and the EPH was being held on the basis of incomplete EIL report rendering it illegal as was pointed out earlier to officials repeatedly.
3.   There are several instances of incomplete details and TOR (Terms of Reference) in the EIL report, which was not furnished during the illegal EPH.
4.       Only limited villages will be allowed to make oral representation.
5.      The Bhavnagar district collector decided not to allow the rest of 128 villages and other environmental experts to make oral representations and instead directed that they make their case only in writing. This is in clear violation of the Delhi High Court order in the case of Samarth Trust and Other v Union of India & Others W.P.(C) 9317 of 2009, where it has opined that “….Prima facie, that so far as a public hearing is concerned, its scope is limited and confined to those locally affected persons residing in the close proximity of the project site. However, in our opinion, the Notification does not preclude or prohibit persons not living in the close proximity of the project site from participating in the public hearing – they too are permitted to participate and express their views for or against the project.”
The authorities without allowing the villagers to raise points on procedural lapses directed the company officials to represent the incomplete EIA report. Around 4,500 villagers of 29 villages as a result walked out of the illegal EPH’s proceedings as they did not want to become party to illegal proceedings. The officials stopped the EIA report presentation halfway asking the villagers to stay back, but they refused on grounds of it being illegal and procedural illegalities..
The villagers are now contemplating legal action against the authorities for organizing the EPH even when several lapses were pointed out well in advance as well as during the EPH proceedings.
* (It seems that EIL later has received a purported letter allowing them to do an EIA, however since the EIA was prepared before the letter was received, the EIA would still be invalid, especially because no such letter was published in the EIA report).
Procedural issues in writing were given by following Sarpanches of 10 villages. 
  1. Shaktisinh Gohil, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Jaspara, Tal. Talaja, Dist. Bhavnagar
  2. Samuben Dabhi, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Mithi Virdi, Tal. Talaja, Dist. Bhavnagar
  3. Lagdirsinh Gohil, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Paniyali, Tal. Talaja, Dist. Bhavnagar
  4. Pruthvirajsinh Gohil, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Khadarpar,  Tal. Talaja, Dist. Bhavnagar
  5. Vilasba Dharmendrasinh Gohil, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Mandva  Tal. Talaja, Dist. Bhavnagar
  6. Bhagvatsinh Gohil, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Sosiya,  Tal. Talaja, Dist. Bhavnagar
  7. Ramubha Gohil, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Navagam (Nana), Tal. Ghogha, Dist. Bhavnagar
  8. Liliben Zinabhai, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Goriyali, Tal. Ghogha, Dist. Bhavnagar
  9. Gobarbhai Solanki, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Rampar (Garibpura), Dist. Bhavnagar
  10. Dakshaben Makwana, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Bharapara, Dist. Bhavnagar
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1:36 AM

Condemn Not Just North Korea; Deal with Global Nuclear Hypocrisy

Written By Krishna on Thursday, February 14, 2013 | 1:36 AM

Condemn Not Just North Korea; Deal with Global Nuclear Hypocrisy
 
North Korea has just announced that it has conducted a successful third underground nuclear test, and the world powers are all condemning the act unanimously. According to their reasoning, North Korea, Iran and a few other “rogue” countries they do not like cannot and should not develop nuclear energy or produce nuclear weapons.
 
But they themselves can do both. The United States, Russia, Britain and France can arm themselves to their teeth with thousands of nuclear bombs and all kinds of treacherous missiles. And, of course, we have nothing to worry about it as they are all White and straight. China, India, Pakistan and Israel are all encouraged to build more nuclear power plants and produce more nuclear bombs as these activities fetch more nuclear deals, more nuclear business and more billions of dollars to the big brothers’ nuclear industries and other MNCs. As an added advantage, this nuclearization entrenches the imperial powers’ world hegemony and neutralizes the growing economic and military strength of the “emerging” regional powers.
 
The U.S. disarmament ambassador Laura Kennedy has said at a Geneva disarmament forum: "I find it just an incredible contrast that while millions of people are celebrating the Spring Festival, a time which should be a time to celebrate peace and prosperity, that North Korea celebrates it by a third nuclear weapons test." This rule does not apply to the United States, however. They can invade any country anytime anyhow and do whatever they want whenever they want and wherever they want. If you wonder what moral authority and political legitimacy the United States government has to talk about nuclear armament and proliferation, you would be branded as a dangerous terrorist.
 
The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the test as “a clear and grave violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions”. This Secretary General himself has been accused of not convening the Security Council in the wake of the Sri Lankan genocide against the Tamils and actually assisting in the genocide and related war crimes. Just as the UN has become pro-governments and anti-people thanks to Ban Ki-moon and company, several UN agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have become redundant and useless for the international community.
 
The South Korean disarmament ambassador Kwon Haeryong has said that North Korea was the "only country which has demonstrated blatant disregard by conducting nuclear tests" since a 1996 global treaty banning them was negotiated at the disarmament forum. He has conveniently forgotten that India and Pakistan conducted tests in 1998. Is it because South Korea has signed a nuclear business deal with India?
 
Similarly, the Japanese officials have said that they would deploy military jets to survey the radiation levels following the North Korean test and consider imposing “unilateral sanctions” on Pyongyang. But they themselves would hide so much vital facts and information about Fukushima and other nuclear installations from their own citizens and the international community. It is strange that they are more worried about the North Korean radiation when they have enough nuclear skeletons in their electricity closets.
 
The nuclear proliferation and the missile programs around the world are getting out of hand and the global nuclear hypocrisy is endangering the Earth and life on it very badly. It is high time we, the peoples of the United Nations, convened an international conference of the citizens of the Earth, and decided to abandon Uranium mining, phase out nuclear power, intensify non-proliferation efforts and begin a serious initiative on abolishing nuclear weapons all together in a time-bound manner. There cannot and should not be different types of justice for small and weak countries and the bigger and powerful countries. Let us get rid of everything nuclear from the face of the Earth! Here and Now!
 
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)                               
February 13, 2013
Idinthakarai 627 104
Tirunelveli District
Tamil Nadu, India
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4:04 AM

New Year celebrations breathe new life into anti-nuclear struggle at Kudankulam

Written By Krishna on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 | 4:04 AM



·      Activists, struggle communities along with other professionals from varied walks of life take midnight pledge to fight against the Nuclear plant and to fight the forces of death and destruction.
·      Trade Unions, environmental groups, human rights organisations, etc. extend solidarity to people’s struggle at Kudankulam
·      Scientists, senior activists, artists, film makers, lawyers & other professionals join the struggle on the eve of New Year 2013
·      Night-long celebrations at Idinthakarai beach reverberate the spirit of resistance, assertion, freedom and democracy

As 2012 came to a close and 2013 dawned, hundreds of people sang and danced together at the Idinthakarai coast, adjacent to the Kudankulam Nuclear Plant. Among the thousands who gathered were more than three hundred people who came from outside the region, to join the local people. They came to the coastal hamlets around Kudankulam to support the spirit of freedom, humanity, resistance and democracy represented by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE). People’s movements from Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu among other states along with activists, trade unions, professionals, artists, students and others have come to oppose the undemocratic imposition of a nuclear reactor within two kilometres of Idinthakarai. The local people have come from the coastal villages of Idinthakarai, Kudankulam, Vairavikinaru, Kuthankuzhi, Koottappuli and Perumanal.

The movement in Idinthakarai is representative of many people’s struggles in various parts of the country against the lack of local people’s participation in decisions that affect them and generations after them. With promises of dramatic changes for local people, mines in Jharkhand, thermal power plants in Odisha and hydro- electric plants are established. However, the experience of the local people show they are often left in the shadow of such development. This negligence of people has reached its peak with the bogus promise of electricity, energy, etc. taking the centre-stage on the issues around displacement and destructive development paradigm. This is demonstrated in the villages next to many thermal plants and dams in Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Odisha and places like Raichur. With corporations awaiting to grab the electricity generated at the Kudankulam plant, no different fate awaits the people of Idinthakarai, Kudankulam and even rest of Tamil Nadu.

31st December in Idinthakarai has turned out to be a memorable experience for the local people and those who came from different parts of India. The day began with children from all over India coming together to paint a mural against the nuclear reactor in Kudankulam. It was followed by a rally accompanied by music, song and dance through the coastal hamlets around Idinthakarai. The children took the lead to assert their right to live a life safe from the risks of nuclear radiation. With the beating of drums, the Janwadi Sanstrutik Andolan from Odisha opened the programme to welcome the people gathered in solidarity at the Idinthakarai Lourde Matha Church. Despite speaking various languages, they raised a joint voice against the proposed nuclear plant.

Hajirabi representing the people affected by Bhopal Gas disaster of 1984 highlighted how the people of Bhopal were continuing to live the tragedy despite all false promises of the government and Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals). Many speakers highlighted how, when democratic people’s struggles were exercising their right to protest, they have faced difficulties, harassment, arrests and even death. The case of Sr. Valsa John was highlighted in Jharkhand, who was murdered when she was leading protests against the usurping of traditional forests of the Adivasi community for uranium mines. During this process of protests, they were labelled as traitors, enemies of the state and most recently terrorists, making it difficult to lead normal lives. Ashim Roy, General Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI is a national trade union of workers from varied sectors) affirmed that it is the duty of the new people’s movements to bring awareness to the old movements like trade unions, with regard to the assertive land protection struggles. He reaffirmed NTUI’s support to the struggle at Kudankulam.

Many speakers also highlighted how many villages across India were in a permanent siege, with many villages surrounded by the local police, the Central Reserve Police Force, the Rapid Action Force and other para military forces. In order to intimidate local resistance, thousands of fabricated cases are slapped onto protesters, who have to live with the constant threat of arrest. The experiences from Jagatsingpur (anti-POSCO struggle), Latehar (Jharkhand), Jaitapur (anti-nuclear plant struggle in Maharshtra), Chengara (land struggle in Kerala), etc. have not been different.

Selvam from the Tamil Nadu Eearkai Vyavasaya Sangam highlighted how the State has been painting a rosy picture for the people if they leave agriculture and other traditional livelihoods like fishing. However, speaker after speaker highlighted how various development projects have left them impoverished as lose access to their traditional livelihoods and at the same time cannot access the benefits promised by the State.

T. Peter from the National Fishworkers’ Forum highlighted the sacrifices the fishing community have made for the greater good of the country. It was the coastal villages and the fishworkers who sacrificed their land to establish the Thumba satellite launch station. But he asserted that for destructive developmental projects like the Nuclear project, the same fishworkers will give their life to protect land, livelihood and marine resources. It is a battle of life against the forces of death, he asserted. Peter also announced that fishworkers from across the country will hold January 21st as solidarity day in support of the people’s struggle in Kudankulam.

The day witnessed cultural programmes by Space theatre (Goa), Dynamic Action (Kerala), Delhi Solidarity Group, Susanta Das (West Bengal), children’s programmes from Idiantahkarai. The night witnessed songs, dances and cultural performances that lasted till the dawn of the first day of 2013. Eminent citizens and senior movement activists including Dr. Binayak Sen, Admiral (Rtd) Ramdas, Achin Vinaik, Ajitha George, Adv. Colin Gonsalves, Adv. Clifton D’Rozario, Praful Bidwai, Gabriela Dietrich, Ashim Roy, Lalita Ramdas, Wilfred D’costa, Dr. Meher Engineer, T. Peter, Sr. Celia, Vilayodi Venugopal, Laha Gopalan, and others participated in the events held at Lourde Matha Church premises at Idinthakarai. They were joined by eminent filmmakers, photographers, actors, singers, playwrights, scientists, and local movement representatives including Dr. S P Udayakumar, Mary, Malar Manickam, Inita Sahayam, Pushparayan, Milton and others.

During the evening, young activists from all over the country came together to share their dreams, hopes and aspirations of local people. They shared their hope that the development process would be more inclusive and participatory with local communities deciding on their common future. They highlighted their common dream of more democratic decision-making and a greater stake for local people in local development. 

 1st January 2013

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11:33 PM

URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL DURING JAN 4-6

Written By Krishna on Tuesday, January 01, 2013 | 11:33 PM

Join Us For
URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
January 4-6, 2013
Siri Fort Auditorium No.:3
New Delhi
4th Jan: 3.30 pm to 8.30 pm
5th Jan: 11.am to 8.30 pm
6th Jan : 11.00 am to 8.30 pm



Schedule of the Uranium Film Festival

DAY – I
January 4th, 2013
INAUGURATION – 3.30-4.30
4.30-8.30:
ATOMIC BOMBS ON THE PLANET EARTH by Peter Greenaway (UK), 14 mins, art & documentary about nuclear bomb testing
INTO ETERNITY by Michael Madson (Denmark), 75 mins, about nuclear waste repository
Tea Break: 10 mins
After the Day After (USA), 6 mins, story of nuke devastation in Dada, animation
Australian Atomic Confessions (Australia), 49 mins, British bomb testing sites, Australia
Blowin in the wind (Australia), 62 mins, Depleted Uranium Weapons, Gulf War

Day- II
11.00 to 01.00
Toxic Neglect (India), 9 mins, Uranium Mining in Jadugoda
Yellow Cake - The Dirt Behind Uranium (Germany), 108 mins, Uranium Mining in Germany, Africa, Australia and Canada
01.00-01.30: Lunch Break
01.30 to 4.00 pm
Sacred Ground (USA), Native American and atom bomb, 9 min
Indian Point: Nowhere to Run (USA), 29 mins, 9/11, terrorist attack and nuclear
Food and Radiation (USA/Japan), 18 min, Fukushima
Leonids Story (Germany / Ucraine), animation, 19 mins
Chernobyl: Invisible Thief (Germany), 59 mins
o 4.15 Tea Break
4.15 to 8.30
Not an Accident, Birdboy (Spain), 12 mins, animation
Burial at Los Alamos (USA), 6 mins, animation, atomic bomb tests
The secret and the sacred (Germany), 52 min, atomic bombs production
Muckaty Voices (Australia), 10, nuclear waste
Buried in Earthskin (Southafrica), 50 mins, nuclear chain
6.30 to 6.45 Tea Break
6.45 to 8.10
Amarelinha, (Brazil), 4 mins
Cesium 137: The Nightmare fo Goiânia, (Brazil)
Not for Public Release: a Nuclear Incident in Lock Haven
USA, 2010, 73 min, English, Director: Bill Keisling

DAY-III
11.00am - 01.00 pm
Panel Discussion hosted by CNDP
01.00-01.30: Lunch Break
The Third Nuclear Bomb (Italy) (26 min, Gulf War)
Red Button (Poland/USA) Missile Conflict, 52 mins)
Quira is a Radioactive Dump (Italy), 21 min, Sardinia)
Beating the Bomb, (UK), 71 mins, History of British Peace Movement against Nuclear Bombs
04.20 – 4.45: Tea Break
4.45 - 7 pm
Yellowcake, (USA), 10 mins, uranium mining
Return of Navajo Boy (USA), 57 mins, Uranium mining Navajo
Jadugoda: The Black Magic (India), 9 mins, uranium mining, India
Dirt Cheap 30 Years on (Australia), 51 mins, Kakadu Australia
7.00 pm -
Uranium Decay, (USA), 6 mins, animation
Uranium: A Poisoned Legacy, (France), 52 mins, uranium mining in Africa
Uranium, (Canada), 48 mins, uranium mining Canada









 Anil Chaudhary
For and on Behalf of

PEACE/INSAF/CNDP
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