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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

http://www.pugwash.org/index.htm

Americans for Eppawala, Sri Lanka

The culture and environment of Sri Lanka's ancient heartland is threatened.
An American conglomerate is negotiating with the Sri Lankan Government to purchase rights to a 56 square kilometer region around Eppawala, and a 675 square km. "buffer zone" around that. Their plan for this home to thousands of villages, half a million rural Sri Lankans, pristine forest, countless endangered species, and extensive 2000-year-old archaeological preserves, monuments and irrigation tanks and canals? They want to turn it into a gigantic phosphate strip mine.
http://people.whitman.edu/~walterjs

Images of Eppawala

Images of Eppawala by Nihal Fernando, founder of Studio Times, August 1999 New! Check out Black and White images of Eppawala, Traditional drummer Eppawala, On the Jayaganga, The scars of phosphate mining, Eppawala Children in the temple, The view from "Phosphate Mountain, Eppawala", ancient monuments of Anuradhapura in the distance, and others.
http://marcus.whitman.edu/~walterjs/nihal.html

Judgement on Eppawala Phosphate

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a plan by a U.S.-Japanese consortium to mine a phosphate deposit in the country's north-central province threatened to violate the rights of local residents. The three-judge bench ordered "state agencies to desist from entering into any contract" with the consortium until a comprehensive scientific study and independent assessment of the project's environmental impact had been obtained.