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Please Sign The Mining Petition Click to enlarge 9 Mar: Carmen Miranda together with Claude Alvares from Goa Foundation and other activists in Goa, were instrumental in getting the Indian Central Govt. to impose a temporary ban on new mining leases in Goa. Carmen writes: You can now sign a Petition not to lift the moratorium on new mining leases till such time as the ministry has received and considered the environmental impact assessment and Goa's mining carrying capacity report of the Indian National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). For a brief (5m. 21s) CNN video clip illustrating the problem, click here. To sign the petition, click here. _________________________________________________________________ What does Budget 2010 mean for you? Catch all the latest news, updates and analysis on MSN Budget Special http://news.in.msn.com/moneyspecial/budget2010