From: atul baride <barideatul@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:49 AM
Subject: Fwd: JOAR- Disaster in Japan and public hearing in Turamdih
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From: Shri Prakash <prakash.shri@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Fwd: JOAR- Disaster in Japan and public hearing in Turamdih
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From: Shri prakash <kritikashri@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:13 PM
Subject: JOAR- Disaster in Japan and public hearing in Turamdih
dear friends/comrade
We at Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation (JOAR) express our deep concern and condolences to the people in Japan who have been affected by the earthquake, tsunami and continuous explosions/meltdown in the nuclear power stations at Fukushima Daiichi. These anxious and sorrowful moments have given a chance to the world to think about the nuclear industry as a whole and how it has posed a great danger to all living beings. On the day of earthquake, news was that every thing is all right. But the next morning it was said that 3,000 people will be evacuated from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. However, in the afternoon an explosion happened and people within a 10 km radius of the plant were evacuated and later this became 20 km, but a BBC reporter was stopped at a distance of 60km from the power plant. It suggests that even in this situation, the nuclear industry is trying to cover up the facts and hide their wrong and inefficient handling of the situation. This is the situation of Japan which lies in earthquake and Tsunami zone, had horrible experience of nuclear explosion.
In the context of the tragedy in Japan, we would like answers to our own situation: The people of Jadugoda face danger from three tailing dams which contain a million tonnes of radioactive mill waste and it will remain there for ever. In case of any catastrophe, what kind of threat will we face?
For the last 15-20 years JOAR has been raising its voice against the danger of nuclear radiation especially from uranium mining, milling and tailing dams.
The crisis in Japan has validated our voices against the corrupt practice of UCIL and long term impact of radiation to the local people, the environment and the whole ecosystem. At the same time we are horrified to see the police brutalities on the protesters in Jaitapur. We ask that transparency be maintained. Instead of fooling people with these mock public hearings, which are undemocratic and deceptive, the people's decision in Jaitapur should be respected.
With the help of various individuals and organizations JOAR was able to conduct research on the impact of uranium mining in Jadugoda. The findings of this study were brought before the public, but Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) responded by claiming that JOAR was doing so at the behest of anti-national elements. However, UCIL has never given logical or scientific reply to the questions raised by JOAR or the findings of study reports.
Turamdih Public Hearing for mining expansion- Another farcical public hearing
UCIL has a proposal to extend its mining lease at the Turamdih mines and to increase its production capacity from 3,000 metric tones to 4,500 tones per day. The first attempt by the company to conduct the public hearing on 19.10.2010 was foiled due to strong protests from the people.
So the company decided to hold the public hearing on 10 March 2011, which was in keeping with its long history of carrying out public hearings in an undemocratic manner. On March 10, UCIL tried to hold a separate hearing in Turamdih by preventing the local people from participating in it, as they did in Mahuldih in August 2005.
On March 10 this year, with the help of anti social elements and police, UCIL tried to organize another drama of public hearing on the day of Baha festival, which is very important for the local people.
Again, the local people, together with the Gram Shabhas, displaced leaders such as Arjun Samad, Kanhu Murmu and others, and various organizations including the Jharkhandi Organization for Struggling Humans, Sarjom, Majhi Pargana Mahal, Jharkhand Krantikari Mazdoor Union and Adibasi Mahila Samiti stopped the mockery of public hearing. They captured the stage of the public hearing and began the celebration of the Baha festival by dances. People hired by UCIL tried to create a disturbance with the help of the police, but were later forced to run away as locals opposed them, thus preventing the public hearing from taking place. Local newspapers have covered this news.
Ironically, newspapers in Ranchi (state capital of Jharkhand) have been publishing stories that contradict what actually happened at the public hearing.
A report published in Dainik Bhashkar 11 March 2011 says that in spite of strong protest, officers of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) have completed the quorum of public hearing. (Please find the clipping of news papers as attachments.)
We fear that SPCB will give No Objection Certificate on this basis.
Replying to an RTI application, the SPCB refused to give the full Environment Impact Assessment/Environment Management Plan report of the Turamdih project, stating that it is secret information.
It is important to mention that on 31 October 2010 Dainik Bhashkar, Ranchi, had published a report saying that Naxalites are posing threat to UCIL. We fear that activists will be arrested or killed by falsely accusing them of being Naxalites when there are strong protests and agitation in future.
The manner in which UCIL and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) have functioned here in Jadugoda for the last 40 years is criminal.
Ex-chairperson of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board A. Gopalakrishan said in an interview in 1999, that it is not the guard of the tailing dam but the chairperson of the company who should be hanged first for failing to prevent people from walking in the tailing dam.
He added, that the international nuclear safety convention which India has signed in 1994 requires an effective separation between regulatory body and the promotional agency, and India is clearly violating this...
Irresponsibility and irregularities in the functioning of UCIL and the DAE has forced us to believe that they will misguide our countrymen. Our country has witnessed the failure of nuclear establishment in handling the cobalt radiation in Mayapuri accident in New Delhi and now they are about to build world's biggest nuclear reactor in coastal area of Konkan region (Jaitapur). We express our solidarity to all the anti-nuclear people's movements in Jaitapur, Kodakulam and rest of the country. We demand to stop all these projects. We want Uranium to be left where it was buried under the earth as in our tribal belief - "Uranium is like a snake, if you leave the snake alone it will not harm you, but if you disturb it then it will be troublesome".
Ghanshaym Birulee
President
JOAR-Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation
Vill- Tilaitand,
PO/PS- Jadugoda
Dist- East Singhbhum, Jharkahnd
India
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110311/jsp/jharkhand/story_13696919.jsp
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110308/jsp/jharkhand/story_13681921.jsp
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/1011995/National/1/20/1
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