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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Times of India front page headline today captioned ' ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY JOLTS MINING LOBBY - Gram Sabhas' Apporval Made Mandatory For Forest Clearance' comes as a real shot in the arm for Goa and Goans. I, in particular, have already started feeling tipsy. I do hope that this 'high' continues indefinately, since the feeling it has generated is real good and satisfying. I do think that my party's line has made some difference to bring about this marathon change in New Delhi's thinking. Quote "The mineral wealth of Goa is the gift of God to Goa and Goans. If its exploitation does not benefit the people of Goa, but on the contrary it gives Tuberculosis [TB] through breathing the dust from acute dust pollution, rendered deaf through acute noise pollution, their fields and houses destroyed by mining reject slush, their wells dried up soon after the monsoons and survive on unfiltered tanker water gifted to them by the powers that be to keep them pacified, their houses that are not carried away by the mining slush, cracked to kingdom come through detonated blasts, their forest cover eatten up to make the wild life homeless, to roam in villages and endanger the population, then let Goa's mineral resources lie where it is, deeply burried and untouched neither by the Central Government nor by the Government of Goa, whether they like it or not." Unquote The people of Goa, especially those who have been acutely affected and those like Sebastian Rodrigues (Goa's Naxalite) and Company, who have been at logger-heads with the mining lobby as well as with the impotentent Goa Government have a huge cause to rejoice. floriano lobo Gen. Secretary, Goa Su-Raj Party 9890470896
