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.

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p99HhVZPIS0

Saligao's Illegal Piggery & Slaughter House - 2: complaint+video prompt joint site inspection

A combination of this complaint - signed by 240 residents of Donvaddo and Sonarbhatt - and the Video Volunteers film on the problem, led to a 3-way joint site inspection by the Health Officer, Primary Health Centre, Candolim; the Dept. of Animal Husbandry and the Sarpanch, VP Saligao.  Copies of the film were given to the Health Officer, Sarpanch, VP Saligao and local MLA.

The usual game of passing the buck stopped at the Sarpanch and it now rests with him to stop the illegal activity and implement the relevant laws and rules governing the keeping and slaughter of pigs in residential areas.  He will also have to implement the law governing garbage dumps and the burning of garbage, especially plastics in a residential area. 

The Health Officer cannot escape the immediate removal of all the health hazards connected with this illegal activity, and the burning of plastic garbage.

The Pollution Control Board will have to stop the burning of plastic garbage with its resultant air pollution as well as the seepage into the underground water table of the infected, putrefying and stinking blood, that rots in a pool along with the the urine, dung and entrails of the slaughtered pigs.65

The communities of Donvaddo and Sonarbhatt have suffered enough.  We hope that the 2 communities along with Sarpanch Eknath will work towards a win-win situation for them as well as the pig-rearing families.

Saligao's Illegal Piggery & Slaughter House - 1

Remember Sulochana Pednekar the grassroots Community Correspondent from Video Volunteers who came in and did a short video documentary on the illegal piggery and slaughter house in Donvaddo, Saligao?

Her video is now up here...

More on the devastation caused by this dangerous community nuisance and health hazard as the community responds.  Stay tuned.

anOTHERclip

This is anOTHERvideo clip....

It is called 'Save Goa From Destruction', a 40 second, silent movie by a publisher named 'GoaClips'.

Says the producer: "It is a video depicting the destruction of Goa's natural surroundings if the wrong people come to power...."

This clip was made before that fateful electoral day on 2 June 2007...

It leaves you speechless to know how powerfully you can say something in just 40 seconds...without uttering a word!

Let this 40 second video scream at you!



Well, well, well...so going by the current, dysenteric 'tamasha' in the sewers of power (that is what those hallowed corridors have been reduced to) do we have the wrong people in power once again, or do we have the wrong people in power?!

Thanks GoaClip for a brilliant plea!