
Call to abandon Kerala’s SilverLine
The Hindu
The project will deprive environment services, ecologists claim
A group of environmental scientists who observed November 1 as the Western Ghats Day demanded that the State Government abandon its proposed SilverLine project connecting Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram.
When crores of rupees are to be spent for the proposed project, it will be depriving environmental services worth many more crores of rupees, they point out. No amount of damages paid to the people living in the project area will help compensate for the wetlands and other natural resources to be deprived by the SilverLine, they say.

A 2-billion-year-old Aravalli range has been battered and bruised by mining, waste dumping, and encroachment, say environmentalists and those who live in its shadow; Supreme Court order accepting the changed definition of the Aravalli hills caused further worry; people living in the foothills believe decisions about the Aravallis should involve and benefit communities












