|
CALCUTTA , West Bengal |
||
|
|
T HE LOCAL PUBLIC VOICED THEIR OPPOSITION A protest meet was organized near a so-called food processing plant, which was effectively a slaughterhouse in Mourigram on the outskirts of Calcutta. With active participation from members of the Greenpeace Jatha, a cross section of the local public voiced their opposition to the pollution generated by the plant. Some of the protestors demanded that the slaughter house be closed for good.
|
|
|
|
||
|
R.C. Samanta..... 'The air and the water pollution in the area is such that if it continues in this manner, we will be left with no choice but to leave this place,' said R C Samanta, a retired railway official. Dr. D.D. Bakshi....... 'The groundwater here is highly contaminated and it is made more dangerous by the fact that the company does not divulge which chemicals they are releasing along with its waste.' Said Dr D Bakshi, a resident of Mourigram. He also added that incidence of nausea, vomiting, respiratory problems, and sleeplessness were particularly high in and around the area |
||
| The GREENPEACE " 1000 Bhopal JATHA" represents thousands of ordinary people and communities whose voices are never heard as they continue to be unjustly exposed to unsafe toxic substances and unsustainable corporate environmental "criminal" practises with consequent effects on health, sometimes leading to death..... | ||
|
|
||
