26 de marzo del 2009 20:01:33 Por: TerrenoDeportivo
Cada año, entre 200 y 500 mil tortugas marinas nacen y se alimentan en las playas de Gahirmatha, al este de la India. Esto es a sólo 12 kilómetros de Dhamra, donde la gigante Tata está construyendo un enorme puerto desde el que pretende exportar gran parte de su producción. Tata, la corporación más grande de India, es un conglomerado económico que crece día a día. La empresa ya ha desarrollado
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TATA needs to just ignore these obstructions and go ahead with their planning
Since Greenpeace refused to negotiate I give more credit to the TATAs who are willing to talk over the issue and come to a solution.
The facts are clear dredging has had no impact on the nesting this year. In fact thousands of turtles have nested this yr and shame on you green peace as the turtles them selves have proved you all wrong… Grow up green peace
Green peace is trying a lot to get the visibility attaching itself to TATA’s
I personally am very upset with green peace,
fighting for anything which is right is great but to simply make noice and drama is not nice,
TATA s have also done their homework regardsing the turtles and hav started this project away from the turtles breeding ground..
I want to know why Greenpeace is being inhuman and not thinking about the people of Orissa
The Turtles are being used by greenpeace to achieve their agenda. It has nothing to do with turtles or tata its purely a publicity gimmick
Ratan Tata has taken measures to ensure that nesting does not get affected due to the on going project. The nesting happened last year so what does Greenpeace want now.
Hey, it’s nice to know that you know what you are talking about and have done your homework..
YOU should go through this site (http://www.eco-dhamra.com/) for further clarifications.
And NO I’m not an employee of TATA … BUT am an Oriya… meaning I and my entire clan has been there for generations… so I KNOW what you are JUST talking about…
Maybe you should also check out this site (http://www.aamaraodisha.com/)… To know the TRUE picture of all the happenings
Greenpeace reminds me of my high school as they are exactly like a bunch of bullies who used to go around the school telling students that if they don’t do as they say they will have the worst days ahead of them going ahead in school
Orissa has been affected badly in the past by natural disasters like floods leading to heavy loss of life and property. If people are getting a chance to get back to there life and make it better by the TATAs project then we should support TATA. We should be true Indians and help our neighbouring states prosper and grow. TATA is helping both the species and not putting any in danger. Greenpeace needs to take a few lessons from them.
TATAs not going to jeopardies their project after progressing. They must have been aware of the whole nesting thing they started with their project. They have taken measures thats why nesting continued last year. So what is really the issue with Green peace. One wouldn’t know because they refuse to negotiate either
your conversation does pop a few questions
why question only TATA
why now
why through nano
the propoganda does seem illicit
Tata just follow your heart
Then you could search the news and find credible evidence that the Turtles nested this year,
The numbers were approx. 1.7lacs
The facts are clear dredging has had no impact on the nesting this year.
Sustained development is a win-win situation in all cases
Recently came across exciting news about Record Mass Nesting of Olive Ridley turtles in Gahirmatha beach this year inspite of Dhamra Port construction…
Annual rendezvous of Olive Ridley Turtles
Mass Turtles Nesting in Gahirmatha Beach in 2009
A funny youtube video about turtles nesting in India. ENJOY!
Turtels are back in India
According to Greenpeace, Dhamra port project will directly affect the Olive Ridley turtles, their mating, nesting etc. however found this video worth sharing.
Greenpeace Lie – Olive Ridley Nesting Video at Gahirmatha Beach
Even after huge Greenpeace propaganda, turtles came back for nesting at Gahirmatha beach, which is located near Dhamra port project.
Like to share few more stories:
— > Olive Ridley Turtles Begin Early Nesting in Orissa
— > Olive Ridley turtles hatchlings emerge from sandy pits
I think Greenpeace problem lies here: “After all, Tata has grown from a national giant into an international player”
Have a look at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=41645784174&topic=305078
Its says:
Check this press release which is worth reading.
Greenpeace to see exclusive olive ridley turtles video shared by DPCL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzFBQbEN0vA
Know more about Dhamra Port Project
Greenpeace Lies About Apple
Greenpeace Lies About Dhamra Port
Is that like Greenpeace always targets big corporate giant to keep them under pressure and earn money from them ultimately?
I wonder why a non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment do not like to protect the human beings. I have found in few countries innocent & poor people require protections, importance more than animals.
Why they have been kept ignored and leave behind by this type of so called good organizations.
GREENPEACE HAS NO RIGHT TO CREATE OBSTACLES FOR THE ECONOMICAL & INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY.
– Cyber activist blogger’s viewpoint on Greenpeace and the turtles
Dhamra Port Project is not only concern about the Orissa’s economy or the society’s betterment but they are also concern about the environmental protection. A very nice video which you will definitely like to share with others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJ9x8_sEQQ
Light and lighting are crucial for any industrial project, both during construction and the operational phase. IUCN lighting experts and DPCL are also taking care of implementing lighting safeguards, which would also be turtle safe lighting and would be low pressure sodium vapor lights which have been proven by research to be the least disorienting to turtle hatchlings.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=296928&id=168851070709
Greenpeace, the professed global environment campaign organization, in an instance of unmatched brazenness, falsified the report prepared by North Orissa University on Biodiversity Assessment of Dhamra Estuary. As a result, a group of forty MPs wrote to the Ministry Of Environment and Forests to call on the bluff of Greenpeace. The Orissa Govt. therefore initiated action against Greenpeace proposing a ban on all its activities in the state.
However, after the 102nd Annual General Meeting of Tata Steel in Mumbai, Greenpeace unabashedly has started their tricks once again. This time it has managed to rope in Retd Admiral Ramdas and his wife Mrs. Lalita Ramdas on the issue of Dhamra port but as far as scientific reasoning goes, the issues raised are totally unfounded. We can just hope that the visit of the Ramdas’ to the site will help to stop meaningless agitations and clear the situation once and for all.
Tata Steel has always maintained a strong focus on environment sustainability and environment management in all its operations. We have seen that in the issues regarding the construction of a deep-sea port at Dhamra in Orissa, the Company has been forthcoming in sharing the concerns of activists and ever willing to implement practical means of mitigating any adverse impact of port construction on the marine eco-system in that area. The Company has held at least eight to nine sessions of meetings with Greenpeace and other environmental organizations in the matter of Dhamra Port. Tata Steel has made it abundantly clear that it is willing to have further discussions in order to alleviate any unnecessary doubts that the dissenters may yet nurture against the project.
Here is an outline of events as they happened till date.
The JV agreement with L&T to build a port at Dhamra was signed by Tata Steel in 2004. At the very onset, discussions were initiated with WWF- India, BNHS, Mr Kartik Shankar, Mr Bittu Sehagal and others.
The company was duly concerned with the objections raised by different environmental organizations and agreed not to begin construction work till a detailed study was complete. Responding wholeheartedly to the demands of activists, Tata Steel agreed for a proposal for a further study of the impact of the port on turtles and on the marine and island eco-system.
In 2005, BNHS and WWF-India, with an unprecedented suddenness, reversed their stand and refused to conduct the assessment study as they had promised. However, the organisations did not provide any reasons for their turncoat attitude.
In March 06, in an address to ED, Greenpeace India, the Chairman of TATA Sons made it clear that commitments were meant to be honoured at both ends. The Company had fulfilled their promise by withholding construction work for the proposed study, which never actually took off. The MD of Tata Steel also met Greenpeace officials in their Bangalore office.
In January 2008 a meeting was subsequently conducted between Greenpeace and Tata Steel and a list of concerns was presented by Greenpeace with regard to Dhamra Port. DPCL on 8th March 2008, gave a detailed and comprehensive explanation to all the points raised by Greenpeace. Subsequent objections were allayed on 3rd May 2008.
Further on 23rd October 2008, MD, Tata Steel along with senior executives of Tata Steel, L&T and DPCL met Greenpeace, BNHS, WPSI, Wild Society of Orissa, Sanctuary Asia and other environmental organizations to discuss the concerns and the way forward on the subject with regard to Dhamra Port.
A team of Company Executives and environment experts visited Bhitarakanika National Park, Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary and the Dhamra Port site on February 2009, supervising the ongoing dredging operations.
On fourth meeting on 20th Feb 2009 in Kolkata, Tata Steel, L&T and DPCL agreed to conduct the additional biological impact assessment in close collaboration with NGOs’ of environmental organizations team led by a mutually agreed upon Scientists team. However the NGOs’ in a further instance of unreasonableness, insisted upon complete cessation of on-going dredging operation of Dhamra Port even before the commencement of study. However DPCL, Tata Steel and L&T team showed it preparedness to adjust the schedule of works including dredging to facilitate the study after due recommendation by the Scientists team.
The 102nd AGM of Tata Steel had been attended by a number of Greenpeace activists who happen to be shareholders of the Company as well. The AGM highlighted Tata Steel’s interests in further conference with Greenpeace in the matter of the port in addition to an invitation to activists to visit the port site yet again.
From the sequence of events, it is absolutely clear that the only thing that Greenpeace wants is to prolong the situation of deadlock in the matter of Dhamra Port. Perhaps, due to a lack of other valid issues on their agenda, Greenpeace is carrying on with a stance of stiffness, lest they have to give in to valid scientific reasoning. The only deduction that may be drawn from Greenpeace’s lack of willingness in discussion is that they have lost their own conviction long before and fear that they will have to admit it as such in an open forum. It is indeed a very sorry state of affairs in which progress is kept at stake and the environment is being used as a pawn by people who profess themselves to be friends of the environment.
Some shareholders of Tata Steel brought up the concerns raised by Greenpeace about the impact of the Dhamra Port on the nesting habitat of Olive Ridley Turtles at Tata Steel’s 102nd AGM in Mumbai on the 27th August’09 and requested the Chairman of Tata Steel, Mr Ratan Tata, to discuss the Dhamra Port issue with them.
Mr Tata responded immediately to their concerns and said that my invitation is “ to you Admiral Ramdas” and anybody else who would be interested and Mr Muthuraman would make the arrangements for you all to take the time to satisfy yourselves in terms of what we are doing.
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