Environmental organizations states that the government should take measures to permanently stop the Colombo Port City project instead of temporary suspension.Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ajith P. Perera told our news team that the cabinet has decided to temporarily suspend the Colombo Port City project.Colombo Port City Project commenced during the previous regime under Chinese government aid.However, environmental organizations and […]
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa( The Island News paper) A Sri Lankan environmentalist body has objected to a billion-dollar Chinese funded Port City being built off the coast of Colombo to uplift the city as a modern international metropolis. The Centre for Environmental and Nature Studies (CENS) has claimed that the country’s delicate marine ecosystem is paying the price […]
By Shalika Wimalasena 2014-11-16 “Many people think this is the end but this is the beginning.” Many of us did not understand that. He was talking about the landslide in Meeriyabedda in Koslanda in which scores of hapless people were buried alive without last respects. But this is a story about living people. We must learn a lesson from […]
BY NIRANJALA ARIYAWANSHA-Ceylon today November 9, 2014 A tunnel being dug 100 metres below the Koslanda hills, where the recent landslide tragedy took place, may be the cause of the tragedy, environmentalists inferred.This tunnel will divert Mahaweli waters from Kirindi Oya to the Moneragala, Badulla and Hambantota Districts under the Rs 80 billion multipurpose Uma Oya Hydro Electric Power and Irrigation […]
Environmentalists and scientists trade arguments Was Uma Oya Project responsible for Koslanda tragedy? By Niranjala Ariyawansha -Ceylon today 09/11/2014 Soon after the devastating landslide hit the village of Meeriyabedda in Koslanda in the early hours of Wednesday, 29 October, burying several lives and displacing hundreds, the blame game began. The government authorities started blaming the people for not relocating to […]
By Ifham Nizam (The Island) International experts have joined hands with the Centre for Environment and Nature Studies (CENS) to oppose the proposed Theberton Mini Hydro Power Plant to be undertaken by Sapthakaanya Mini Hydro Company on the Maskeliya River directly above the Laxapana Waterfall. The proposed hydro power projects that would destroy the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary the Kelani River, […]
සොරගුණේ වනාන්තරය නසමින් මේ වනවිට රන්වන් ගුහාව, දඩයම්පොළ හරහා මහා මාර්ගයක් ඉදිකිරීමට ආරම්භ කර ඇත. මෙම මාර්ගය ඉදිවෙමින් පවතින්නේ මීට වසර කිහිපයකට පෙර ජනතාවගේ උද්ඝෝෂණ මත යටගිය කාමර දෙදහසක හෝටල් සංකීර්ණය හා ගොල්ෆ් පිටිය ඉදිකරන බෙරගල ගොල්ෆ් රිසෝට් ව්‍යාපෘතිය සඳහා බව ඉතා පැහැදිලිය. මිනිස් වාසයක් නොමැති මෙම වනය මැද කිසිදු අවසරයකින් තොරව නීති විරෝධී ලෙස ඉදිකරන මාර්ගය හා ගොල්ෆ් ව්‍යාපෘතිය […]
අද වන විට සිදුවන දැවැන්ත සංවර්ධනය පරිසරය ගැන හෝ මිනිසුන් ගැන හිතන විදියේ සංවර්ධනයක් නොවන බව වඩා පැහැදිලි වෙමින් ඇත. 2011 සිට 2030 දක්වා සැලසුම් කර ඇති දැවැන්ත සංවර්ධනය මේ බිමේ අවශ්‍යතාවයට හෝ මෙහි ජීවත්වන මිනිසුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාවය නොවන බව වඩා පැහැදිලිය. ලෝක බැංකුව, ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුව, ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල වැනි ආයතනවල ණය ආධාර හා අවශ්‍යතාවය මත ඕස්ටේලියාව ඇතුලූ රටවල් කිහිපයක උපදේශයන් උඩ කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වන දැවැන්ත සංවර්ධනය චීනය ඇතුලූ […]
By Zahrah Imtiaz The Seed Act is a ‘backdoor’ by which the multinationals will get what they want, said Indian scientist and environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva, who was on a recent visit to Sri Lanka, was campaigning for the abolishment of the Seed Act and the patenting of local biodiversity by multinationals.“There was a great study done on kidney […]
By Raveendra Kariyawasam Abelief that ‘small’ hydropower systems are a source of clean energy with little or no environmental impact is driving a growing interest in mini, micro, and pico hydropower systems that can generate from less than 5 kilowatts up to 10 megawatts of energy. Hydropower may appear to be the cleanest and most versatile of renewable energy sources, […]