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Rory Phoulorie wrote:Did you review the Environmental Impact Assessment Report prepared for the project and submit your comments to the Environmental Management Authority? Were your comments ignored?
safe29 wrote:You speak very confidently of Public Consultation , but your statements lacks much justification. You also speak of an EIA process whereby concerns were supposed to be addresses.
Did you read the EIA????
It seem not!!!!!
Rory Phoulorie wrote:You do know that NIDCO is currently in the process of designing a new housing development for the displaced households? They are also catering for agricultural parcels for the bonafide farmers who are being displaced.
I really can't understand why all this noise now when there were many PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS on this highway development. These public consultations were well advertised in the media. Why didn't you all come and voice your concerns then? If you had actually come to the public consultations you would have seen that concerns raised at these meetings were taken into account and the alignment of the highway revised through the Oropouche Swamp.
Highway Re-Route wrote:Most trini’s believe that creating an asphalt and concrete jungle is true development with little or no consideration to the environment. How an I change your mindset? A small minority including myself adore nature..the rest believe that the tall buildings in New York city is absolutely marvelous and what we should aim for here.
After reading all your posts, perhaps I should define what is sustainable development - it is a pattern of growth in which resource use aims to meet (Sociopolitical) human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come (Wikipedia)
THIS HIGHWAY DOES NOT PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
Environmental - Over 400 acres of prime agricultural lands will be destroyed. This affects 200 farmers who depend on their lands to support their families and provide much needed income in these hard times. Imagine destroying soil with a geo-fertilty of 15 feet deep which could support a fifteen hundred year food basket. Agriculture, Food Production and nutrition security is ranked 2nd in the government's five priority items in it's medium term policy framework...
There is very little noise and dust pollution in the areas carded for destruction plus the abundant vegetation works to counter balance any CO2 emissions.
These areas have a rich and diverse historical and cultural background. The site where Trinidad's oldest resident - The Banwari Man - is in close proximity to the proposed highway. Lastly this project will use up 7.6 BILLION Dollars - maybe more than that - financing which has not so far been forthcoming. The 1.5 Billion Dollars which they are using currently was taken from Central Bank's trasury deposits - tax payers income.
Poison Ivy wrote:Does anyone know if the highway will be passing through Khanhailal Trace in Pluck Road?
nervewrecker wrote:Kublalsingh against anything involving technology or moving forward. Is not he who kick brass bout the carisal plant too? I see plenty benefits from that plant.
Kublalsingh have a car btw? he should be walking IMHO
nervewrecker wrote:Kublalsingh against anything involving technology or moving forward. Is not he who kick brass bout the carisal plant too? I see plenty benefits from that plant.
Kublalsingh have a car btw? he should be walking IMHO
nervewrecker wrote:I say let it build too Rory but at the same time let it be maintained too. You know how when there is a change of power projects that involved the other party is usually neglected.
Rory Phoulorie wrote:Dr. Kublalsingh and his friend Dr. Peter Vine are a couple of mad men. When the initial site investigation work commenced for the Alcoa Smelter Plant in Chatham, Dr. Peter Vine rammed his car into a piece of drilling equipment around which men were working. Dr. Kublalsingh and his blind followers cheered when they heard what Peter Vine did.
A next "environmentalist" grabbed a baby and lay down in front of a tractor going into the proposed Smelter site. Next thing on those "environmental awareness" websites you see these people saying the equipment tried to run over a man and his child. What a bunch of liars.
Fine, you have an issue with the proposed development, there are ways in which you can lodge your protest. But to go and put people's lives in danger for your cause, and for others to support your irresponsible methods, that is plain and simply wrong.
Let the highway build I say. I am fed up of driving along the Southern Main Road to get to Point Fortin.
crazybalhead wrote:Poison Ivy wrote:Does anyone know if the highway will be passing through Khanhailal Trace in Pluck Road?
WHERE????