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In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded UN green reward points, which are traded hungrily on the financial markets at huge profit?
The farmers, faces wizened and browned from hours in the harsh Gujarati sun, lower a bucket into a well. Its a solid-brick cylinder 100ft deep. The sun is high in the sky, beating down on the scorched earth. In the baked fields, maize and cotton have been planted. But none of the crops look very healthy. Leaves are wilted and tinged brown. Nothing has been watered for months.
Radha, a tough, sinewy widow and the only female farmer here, says that the well, which draws from deep groundwater, used to adequately supply the village and surrounding farms.
We have plenty of water
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Don Pratt
on Jun 2nd, 2009
@ 6:22 am:
I must be the only person to have read this post. Not only is it sick we, the UK public are paying for it. Carbon credits are a sham. Like the ‘Emperor’s new clothes’ once given a good look at their apparent value disappears. The buyers of credits are the mugs. Who buys credits? Suprise, suprise, we do . Who are we? The UK. The MUGS of europe.
sammy
on Jun 4th, 2009
@ 11:50 am:
I agree. I think the world needs to shake up and pay attention to these scams. We can’t trust saving our planet to industry. And we do need to save it. But apathy is the problem. People don’t dig deep and ask questions and that’s why politicians pull the wool over our eyes.