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Mumbais quest for a second airport Hardly the place to land [1]

RAHUL WADKE

Locating the airport at Panvel will be ecologically harmful as it would require destroying mangroves and changing the course of two rivers.

If you are on National Highway 4B towards Panvel, to your left is a vast expanse of land criss-crossed by rivers and swamps.

Publication Date: 
15/09/2010
Business Line (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Air Transport [3], Maharashtra [4], Mangroves [5], Rivers [6], Environment [7], Ecosystems [8]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/mumbais-quest-second-airport-hardly-place-land
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-line-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-transport
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maharashtra
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mangroves
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystems