Orissa Traditional Fish Worker's Union supports Dhamra Port Project

Orissa Traditional Fish Worker's Union supports Dhamra Port Project

Greenpeace charged with Doctoring Report - Hindustantimes

Greenpeace charged with Doctoring Report - Hindustan Times

Greenpeace misuses the Support of local Union

Green Peace Misused the support of OTFWU, says Letter from orissa Traditional Fish worker's Union

Olive Ridley Protection should not be become the reason of Terrorism in Orissa

Olive Ridley Protection should not be become the reason of Terrorism in Orissa
( News in Oriya daily “The Samaj” dt 27th Feb 2009)

Cuttack:- After the attacks of Mumbai by Pakistan based terrorists through the sea route, the entire administration of the country is busy in guarding the west coast of the country to prevent further attacks. But as per sources, now the terrorists are planning to attack critical civil and defense installations in upcoming states like that of Orissa. They know that the administration will completely taken off-guard by these attacks. But these organizations are using a different methodology to fool the administration.

It is well known that certain national and international NGOs like Greenpeace, Wild Life Protection Society, and Sanctuary Asia along with some local NGOs are working for conservation of Olive Ridley Turtles in the Orissa coast spreading from Dhamra River mouth of Northern Orissa to Rusikulya River Mouth. These organizations hire volunteers to move across the sea in the above area in the name of protection of sea turtles. Since the turtle mating and nesting season has started, these organizations will very shortly start their activities. In the process they will also try to demonstrate in their own innovative methods. To get more publicity they will also oppose ongoing dredging operations in Dhamra , Paradip and Goplapur port. Being fully aware that the government and other statutory institutions will take it as another environmental demonstration, the terrorist organizations have infiltrated their cadres into these environment organizations. These committed cadres of the terrorist organizations will also participate in the environment demonstrations. But with the available of a slightest opportunity, they will attack critical installations of Orissa coast. Some of the installations targeted are DRDO at Dhamra, Paradip Port and upcoming ports at Dhamra and Gopalpur and Reliance Oil wells. Even some of the cadres may sneak into into the land areas through the Mangrove forests and stay on further in the Mangrove forests in Bhitarakanika Mangrove forest to create further civilian casualties.

Now is the time for government, defense organizations and coast guard to step up their security and track and monitor each and every sea movement from Chandipur to Gopalpur of Orissa coast or who knows another Mumbai tragedy can happen in Orissa in near future due to environmental organizations like Greenpeace and others.

Greenpeace v/s MLAs of Orissa

The MLA's of Orissa would like to know why Greenpeace is so interested in bringing down the Future Economy of Orissa.

Is Greenpeace backed up by Science or by Emotion?

It seems that Greenpeace and other environmental organizations have a habit making unscientific demands without any scientific datas and inputs. This is clear from the position with regard to Dhamra Port. These organizations who claim themselves to work for environmental protection work more on emotional basis rather than on clear scientific reasoning and logic. On the request of Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL), L&T and Tata Steel, two of them namely BNHS and WWF initially agreed to do further environmental studies on Dhamra port way back in 2005, but withdrew in the last minute. Due to the delaying tactics by the said organization the construction of Dhamra port was stopped for them for the period from Nov 2005 to March 2006. But inspite of the stoppage of the work at Dhamra, both BNHS and WWF withdrew from making further environmental studies on Dhamra Port.

Similarly after discussions between both the environmental NGOs and Dhamra Port developers, additional study was agreed upon in Dec 2008 to assess Biological Impact by Dhamra Port. The study was supposed to be conducted by mutually agreed upon scientists. The promoters agreed upon for further studies inspite of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – the world’s most renowned scientific organisation being already involved in the study in Dhamra since last 2 years.

But similar to last time ( that in 2005), these organizations led by Greenpeace once again demanded to stop construction of Dhamra Port immediately in February 2009. This demand has no scientific back-up or inputs and was purely made on emotional basis and it does not have scientific recommendation. 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.

It may be noted that IUCN and the MTSG (Marine Turtle Scientific Group) scientists working with the group have clearly stated that dredging operations for Dhamra does not and will not affect the Olive Ridley Turtles in Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary and its periphery area.