August , 2007
On the uranium trail in Meghalaya's forests
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As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush finalise an agreement for civil nuclear cooperation far away in a tiny corner in India- the source of nuclear energy has the tiny state of Meghalaya burning. Nearly 900 million tones of uranium are to be extracted from Meghalayas forests. And I am on the uranium trail to find out just why this yellow stone has the people of Meghalaya up in arms. For three months now members of the Khasi students Union ( KSU) has called for a bandh and a road blockade in protest against a uranium mining project. And an otherwise peaceful Meghalaya has been burning. With our camera and equipment on our shoulders we start our trek through the forest to ground zero- to find out just why people are opposed to uranium mining. The uranium site in West Khasi hills district is not easily accessible. We....
On the uranium trail in Meghalaya's forests
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As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush finalise an agreement for civil nuclear cooperation far away in a tiny corner in India- the source of nuclear energy has the tiny state of Meghalaya burning. Nearly 900 million tones of uranium are to be extracted from Meghalayas forests. And I am on the uranium trail to find out just why this yellow stone has the people of Meghalaya up in arms. For three months now members of the Khasi students Union ( KSU) has called for a bandh and a road blockade in protest against a uranium mining project. And an otherwise peaceful Meghalaya has been burning. With our camera and equipment on our shoulders we start our trek through the forest to ground zero- to find out just why people are opposed to uranium mining. The uranium site in West Khasi hills district is not easily....
More about Bahar Dutt
Bahar Dutt is a wildlife conservationist by training. She has worked for the last ten years on crucial wildlife conservation projects in India and abroad. In England she worked at the world famous Jersey Zoo set up by naturalist Gerald Durrell and was involved in assessing the conditions for release of endangered primate in the Amazon forests. . She has over 10 awards to her credit including the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2006 and the Wildscreen Award , UK and the Young Environment Journalist Award 2007. As an environment editor at CNN-IBN she has done a range of stories travelling to far and forgotten corners of this country to expose the nexus between the mining mafia, politicians and corporates. She has posed as a furniture maker to expose the illegal trade in banned timber in the Western Ghats, and the nexus between the police and a mining company in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. One of her most dramatic exposés involved a cement company of global dimensions that had been operating illegally in the forests of Meghalaya on the India-Bangladesh border. More recently, she and the CNN-IBN team exposed the operations of a miner in Goa who had illegally devastated forest lands. Their story led to the shut down of the mine.
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