This little post is on behalf of my cousin Megan who is infinitely more environmentally conscious than me and lives a substantially more sustainable life! Megan & her partner John have just launched a campaign to raise awareness of what they are dubbing a potential “ecocide” at a currently ecologically rich & pristine mountain site in India which is under threat of being mined for Bauxite by Vedanta Resources, a British Mining Company. Have a read about the cause on their website http://niyamgiri.net/
Their cause particularly touched me as I spent the first 7 years of my life within close proximity to one of the world’s largest open cut mines – Panguna – which was situated on the tropical island of Bouganville in Papua New Guinea. Back in those days (I was born in 74) there wasn’t a great deal of pressure on companies to be environmentally conscious and unfortunately operations caused severe destruction to the landscape including damage to the rivers and ocean. Even today, the mine site is obvious blight on Google Earth.
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