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Trinamool Congress Party will scrap Haripur nuclear plant

We willscrap Haripur nuclear project: Mamata,  News One, Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said his government would review the proposed nuclear plant at Haripur, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday said she will scrap the project if her party came to power in the state.

‘Haripur is not the proper place for setting up a nuclear power plant because it is a densely populated area. Fishermen will also be affected. We will do it elsewhere,’ Banerjee said in an interview to a Bengali television channel Star Ananda Sunday night.

……Banerjee’s party has led an intense agitation for the last few years against the state government’s bid to set up the proposed plant in Haripur in East Midnapore district.

Assembly polls are being held in West Bengal April 18-May 10. The results will be declared May 13.

Earlier, Bhattacharjeee said his government would review the proposed plant in the wake of the crisis in the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami.

‘The crisis that has engulfed the Japanese nuclear plant after the recent earthquake has led to a re-think and resentment in the world about such nuclear power projects. This is very logical as such a thing has happened even in a developed country like Japan. We have also decided to do a review of the plant,’ Bhattacharjee told a media meet here…….http://www.inewsone.com/2011/04/25/we-will-scrap-haripur-nuclear-project-mamata/45716

April 25, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics