04-07-2005, 11:17 PM
<b>Greenpeace opposes India shipyard </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The environmental campaign group, Greenpeace, is opposing a proposal to set up a ship-breaking yard in India.
It has warned that the proposed yard in Andhra Pradesh state will destroy a mangrove forest and deprive thousands of fishermen of their livelihood.
From the 1970s, higher costs in Europe have led to ship-breaking work moving to the developing countries like India.
Greenpeace estimates 90% of obsolete ships are broken up in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Turkey.
The group's activists protested in the Andhra Pradesh capital, Hyderabad, against a plan to set up a ship-breaking yard on the coast of Kakinada..................
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It has warned that the proposed yard in Andhra Pradesh state will destroy a mangrove forest and deprive thousands of fishermen of their livelihood.
From the 1970s, higher costs in Europe have led to ship-breaking work moving to the developing countries like India.
Greenpeace estimates 90% of obsolete ships are broken up in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Turkey.
The group's activists protested in the Andhra Pradesh capital, Hyderabad, against a plan to set up a ship-breaking yard on the coast of Kakinada..................
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