Greens to oppose Pathrakadavu project

 
Environmental organizations have called a meeting at Mannarkkad town on Sunday to chalk out plans to oppose the Pathrakadavu hydroelectric project. The project will pose serious threat to efforts to conserve the unique rainforests of Silent Valley, they said." The project is being taken up as an alternative to the Silent Valley hydroelectric project that was dropped in the late seventies in the face to stiff resistance from environmentalists and a worldwide campaign to protect the forests as natural heritage," Director of 'One Earth One Life' Tony Thomas said.
He said that the main left bank wall of the pathrakadavu project dam formed the Nilikkal boundary of Silent valley park, contrary to the claim of the KSEB that it would be constructed at Pathrakadavu, far down stream of the Pathrakadavu waterfall.

(The Hindu, 22nd  April 2007)