There seems to be a major brouhaha brewing in the Nilgiri biosphere. How has the Ministry of Environment cleared this is a mystery. But the greater mystery is how scientists can believe that transporting three 17kton detectors, building material for a large cavern, electrical equipment, air conditioning systems etc, into the site and transporting earth from a huge 3.5 km tunnel out of the site, can be done without disturbing any wildlife?
Surely other sites must be suitable!
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Saturday, 4 July 2009
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this sounds so bad.. i've never been to the Nilgiris but I remember the effect of the photographs of the place had on me (PONY calendars). Thanks for bringing this up.
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