[ecological-democracy] Action Alert: Pls. Sign Online: Save Nagarjuna Sagar!

Dear Friends...


The first temple of Modern India, NagarjunaSagar, World's Largest Masonry Dam, which provides drinking and irrigation water to over 200million people in five districts of Andhra Pradesh is under threat from Radioactive Contamination.

Please sign this online petition to Stop The Nuclear Radioactive Contamination of Nagarjunasagar Reservoir:

http://www.Petition Online.com/ ANTINUKE/ petition. html


HISTORY OF THE CASE: Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) after having wrecked havoc with the lives of people of Jharkhand with its Uranium Mining there: children born with deformiities, genetically mutated fruits, animals and humans, still births, women with multiple abortions or loosing children, cancers etc...due to the radioactive wastes floating around the region and filling up the Subernarekha river; has now decided to wreck havoc with the lives of the people in A.P.

So, in 2003, they declared that they will be mining for Uranium in Peddagattu and Lambapur villages (tribal villages) - with the mining site just about one kilometer away from the Nagarjuna sagar Reservoir. Most of the water supplied to Hyderabad comes from here...in addition to five districts which get their irrigation supplied from here. .

They called for two Environmental Public Hearings where people vociferously opposed the project.

But the Ministry of Environemnt and forests gave the licences to the UCIL for mining at Peddagattu and Lambapur saying it is "site specific"

The Movement Against Uranium Projects (MAUP) has filed a petition asking for suspension of the licenses granted to UCIL.

As on date the case is pending with the National Environment Appellate Authority.

But our good old UCIL is trying its tricks once again...they are going to the villages of Peddagattu and Lambapur and trying to coerce the villagers to accept the project somehow or the other. The villagers are cut off from the mainstream. They are strongly opposing the project. But under the coercive tactics of the UCIL like bring the CRPF police when they come to speak to the people etc...creating fear among the innocent tribal people, we cannot say, how long these people can withstand the pressure from the Powers That Be.

So, it is time we all pitch and stand by the courageous people who are fighting the mighty UCIL...for our own health, our children and the safety of our PLANET.

Do sign the petition online:

http://www.Petition Online.com/ ANTINUKE/ petition. html

Regards
saraswati kavula
Movement Against Uranium Projects
Hyderabad