Sunday 20 July 2014

SAVE Saligao: An URGENT Appeal

Dear Saligaokars, Saligao lovers and well wishers,

Garbage has been killing Saligao, Goa from 1987.
For 27 years, coastal and hotel garbage has been dumped in a huge, 60 ft. deep, quarry on our hill. Our Salmona spring and wells and those in Calangute and Candolim are polluted.

The SCCC has decided to file a Writ Petition and appeal for funds.  Please be generous with Saligao...Goa...the planet.

Warm regards and solidarity.  - Muriel & Mario.






Saturday 19 July 2014

Saligao Waste Treatment Plant Unviable: Experts

What we in the Saligao Civic & Consumer Cell and others in the village have been saying for a long time now, has finally been borne out by experts in the field.

The Goa Government's proposed Solid Waste Treatment Facility (SWTF) is a formula for disaster: financially, technologically, logistically, environmentally.  Read on:




This video says it all: