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Growing opposition to nuclear plant at Jaitapur, India

Shiv Sena offers support to nuclear plant protesters Health hazards and environmental impact worry local villagers. Gulf News,  By Pamela Raghunath,  December 21, 2010 Mumbai: As the stiff opposition to the proposed nuclear plant in Jaitapur, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, from local villagers grows stronger, the Shiv Sena is also throwing in its support to the people of Konkan region, once a stronghold of the party.Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray who met a delegation of villagers from Ratnagiri on Sunday, assured them that the Sena would continue to oppose the project.

Thackeray said: “We are not against development but will oppose any project that is forced upon the people of that region.”

Of all the mainstream political parties, the Sena has been the most vocal in resisting the 9,900 MW power project of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) at Madban village.

Local villagers are concerned about the health hazards and environmental impact it may have on the region, where it is feared the fragile biodiversity of the Western Ghats as well as their livelihood — farming and fishing — would be affected….

gulfnews : Shiv Sena offers support to nuclear plant protesters

December 21, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics