As the draft report on the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Vizhinjam port project faces a public hearing on Saturday, environmentalists are not happy with the manner in which the report has projected the impact of the port on Vizhinjam.
In fact, non-governmental organisation Coastal Watch has gone to the extent of saying that the draft EIA report “reads like a campaign material rather than an objective environmental impact assessment of the project”.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/vizhinjam-eia-be-firing-line-today
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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-thiruvananthapuram
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kerala
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/thiruvananthapuram-d
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ports
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-hearing
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment-impact-assessment-eia
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmentalists
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coastal-regulation-zone-notification
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment