Alutrint trying to relocate "buffer zone residents"

Msg from P Vine
March 11, 2009
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopthesmelter/message/1146

You can check the following by going to Square Deal on Thursday 12 March 2009 sometime during the day.

About 10 families are each expecting to be given on that date a bunch of keys.

What are the keys for? In a typical case, for a defective house in La Brea with 3 small bedrooms in place of the 5 large bedrooms the extended family had built for itself at Square Deal, a bachelor kitchen, a bathroom barely big enough to turn round in, not allowed to keep any livestock or dog, with no papers, no figure given on the compensation for the existing home, no figure given for the amount the family would be charged for the new house, no negotiation, no reply to a letter of December 2008 from the community bringing all of this to the attention of EMA.

All under the direction of a hired agent called ROW Services who state openly that they are not going to follow any of the World Bank guidelines for relocation mentioned in the Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC).

While at Square Deal, you can watch the vehicles (especially the SUVs—see them fly—but also the trucks) speeding along the 20-kph speed limit dirt road at the edge of the smelter site next to Square Deal, kicking up endless dust against an elementary conditionality of the CEC. Here’s an interesting challenge—see what other floutings of CEC conditionalities you can observe. And these guys aren’t even doing major construction.

It might be a good idea to write to the Chief Executive Officer of the EMA your own report of the flouting of proper practices.

No smelter, no problem.