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DAWN Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:57:53 PKT
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's nuclear sites and military installations remained safe and free from danger during the worst of the flooding to hit the country, the military said Thursday.
“There is no danger to our defence and nuclear installations from flooding,” military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas told AFP.
“All our nuclear and military installations have remained safe and there is no further danger from flooding,” Abbas added.
Pakistan has a 325-megawatt Chinese-built nuclear power plant at Chashma, in south of Punjab province, and another being built on the left of the Indus river, which burst its banks.
Weather forecasters signalled that the monsoon systems may ease off after three weeks of torrential rains triggered the devastating floods that have left nearly 1,500 people dead in Pakistan's worst natural disaster.
The floods wiped out villages, farmland and infrastructure, and the UN aid coordination body OCHA said that more than 650,000 homeless families were still without basic shelter.
Pakistan's nuclear sites also remained safe after 7.6 magnitude earthquake in 2005 which killed more than 73,000 people.
Pakistan tested its nuclear device in May 1998, after South Asian rival India conducted its nuclear tests.
There have been concerns in the west about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal from militants.
The United States is reported to have set up an elite squad that would attempt to secure its weapons if the government ever disintegrated.
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DAWN Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:30:00 PKT
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is clearly worried. Not just because of the floods, which have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, but also because the federal government’s efforts for providing relief to the affected people are not registering with the populace because of the habit on the part of the political leadership of Punjab of point scoring.
He expressed these fears on Tuesday as his efforts to reach out to the affected people ended even before they began.
Tuesday morning began badly when the prime minister had to cancel a visit to Swat and Malakand because of poor weather conditions.
Undeterred, later in the afternoon he took off from Islamabad for Mianwali but had to return midway because of approaching thick clouds and gusty winds.
However, during the short and unsuccessful round trip, he told a couple of accompanying media persons that the various arms of the federal government, including the army, navy, air force, National Disaster........
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GUARDIAN Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:31:12 GMT
There are reports of outbreaks of cholera among the survivors of monsoon flooding in north west Pakistan, as the death toll rises and rescue workers struggle to reach 27,000 stranded people. Follow live updates
10.25am:
Here are the main developments so far:
• The death toll from the flooding has risen to 1,100 people, with a further 27,000 people still trapped by the water.
• Officials have said there are reports of cholera outbreaks in some areas of the Swat valley.
• Pictures from the disaster area shows huge swaths of north west Pakistan covered in water as stranded people on roof tops appeal for help.
• The United Nations has pledged $10m in humanitarian aid; China has offered $1.5m, and the US offered $10m plus 50,000 emergency meals.
• Several aid agencies have launched emergency appeals, including World Vision, Save the Children, Oxfam, Trocaire, and Islamic relief.
Pakistan
Natural disasters and extreme weather
Flooding
United Nations
Matthew Weaver
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GUARDIAN Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:00:12 GMT
Parliament today hears evidence from Cambridge academic Dr Elizabeth Garnsey that not putting clocks back will save carbon emissions and lives
As the UK wakes up to the longest day of the year today, campaigners are calling for more sunshine in our lives – by urging the government to keep British Summer Time (BST) all year round.
Maintaining daylight saving time would save energy and 450,000 tonnes of carbon a year, according to new research, and reduce road accidents, saving the NHS £200m annually.
The Lighter Later initiative, which is being coordinated by the 10:10 climate change campaign, would see a permanent shift to daylight saving time. Under the proposals, the clocks would not revert to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) this autumn, but from next year, the clocks would continue in the same pattern of "spring forward, fall back", shifting an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening through the year.
Dr Elizabeth Garnsey, from the University of Cambridge, will present....
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GUARDIAN Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:00:01 GMT
It is not acceptable to use climate change as an excuse to limit growth in poor countries as the west's carbon emissions rise
Last Thursday the World Bank approved a £2.4bn loan to build a huge new coal-fired power station in South Africa. The issue has exposed the rift between two central international goals – alleviating poverty and preventing global warming. South African ministers claimed that the project was essential for their country's development, while a concerted environmental campaign lobbied international governments to block the scheme. Amid concerns about global warming, this question of development versus environment may become one of the most contentious international issues over the next few years.
Since the 1970s the green movement has acquired ever-greater prominence in international development. In the last decade, global warming concerns have refocused the emphasis of poverty reduction strategies away from development and towards the environment. This is portrayed as a win-win situation – where the interests of the local people are perfectly aligned with the interests of environmental campaigners. Sustainable technologies like wind turbines and solar panels improve the lot of the recipients while keeping their carbon emissions to a minimum. However, this approach has been criticised as a form of eco-imperialism – because western carbon considerations remain a limiting factor on developing world progress.
The Working Group on Climate Change and Development is a network of more than 20 NGOs including WWF, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. Founded in 2004, its "central message is that solving poverty and tackling climate change are intimately linked and equally vital, not either/ors".
The group's most recent report lists the overarching challenges as (1) how to stop and reverse further climate change, (2) how to live with the degree of climate change that cannot be stopped and (3) how to design a new model for human progress and development that is climate-friendly. The makes fascinating reading – and is illuminating as to the ideological backdrop to development policy.
These environmental groups, while spanning quite a large spectrum, tend to demonstrate an affinity with the pro-rural socialist left. The report describes climate change as not just a threat but also an "opportunity" to re-think the entire global system. It challenges western notions of development and growth and, most starkly, concludes that "mere reform within the current global economic system will be insufficient" to tackle poverty in a carbon constrained future. Indeed, members of these groups often seem to embrace rural village life as representing a pre-industrial idyll which should be preserved.
Such romantic ideology therefore seeks to largely maintain the status quo – where the African poor are kept "traditional" and "indigenous". It's hard to disagree with Lord May, former president of the Royal Society in his observation that "much of the green movement isn't a green movement at all, it's political".
With poverty redefined in terms of the environment and infused with pro-rural socialism, large-scale projects to industrialise or modernise are not the priority – indeed, western-style development and modernisation are seen as part of the problem. Instead there is a self-limiting bottom-up approach which subsidises underdevelopment not as a transitionary phase but as an end goal.
To effectively sideline the development strategy that every western country has undertaken in raising living standards is remarkable. Indeed, while India and China have lifted at least 125m people out of slum poverty since 1990, over the same period 46 countries have actually got poorer – the large majority of them African states.
It would be too simplistic to prescribe the industrialisation and modernisation agenda pursued by India and China as a panacea for the problems of sub-Saharan Africa, and the Indian and Chinese policies have...
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GUARDIAN Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:46:24 GMT
Clive Hay-Smith will find out tomorrow if an eco-Waitrose teamed with his food academy in Sheringham will get the go-ahead instead of a Tesco superstore
A former corporate executive will discover tomorrow whether his battle to halt Tesco's plans to build a supermarket in his town and provide what he claims is a greener alternative has been successful.
Clive Hay-Smith's efforts to overturn Tesco's 14-year interest in Sheringham, Norfolk, and bring in a rival instead, will cost him at least £2m if his crusade ends in failure.
If it is successful, it will cost him far more. While Waitrose will fund the development of what it promises will be its greenest store yet, Hay-Smith intends to bankroll the building of a food academy on the same site, offering training in nutrition and cooking skills, before the business is handed over to a charity. He has already moved community allotments, and increased their number, as part of his campaign.
The rival ambitions of Tesco and Hay-Smith, 52, former president of Pearson Assessment and Testing, part of the giant Pearson media empire, and now a local farmer, will be tested tomorrow before the planning committee of north Norfolk district council. "I am not an eco-warrior," said Hay-Smith, who has had links to the town since the 1960s, but whose direct interest in Tesco's efforts to build a store in the town started four years ago.
"I find it odd they should be regarded as a panacea to Sheringham … I am not interested in commercial gain. It is about how can we be creative and not just build a box selling cheap cannelloni."
Hay-Smith, who founded the Greenhouse Community Project to promote his alternative to "just another of thousands of 'Tesco towns'", said: "I don't have an exotic lifestyle. I have made my money and rather than spend it on fast cars, I will pootle about."
His initial approaches to Waitrose to become involved in Sheringham had foundered, he said, because then the company had thought a Tesco store was eventually "a done deal", he said. But in December 2009, the company had come aboard, a relief for Hay-Smith, who has conceded his lack of retail experience.
Waitrose said it was planning its greenest ever store, bringing together elements from existing stores, such as rainwater harvesting and new refrigeration methods, and will install its first ever sedum plant roof – to improve insulation and reduce water run off – and an electric bus service. It was also investigating the provision of an electric vehicle for home deliveries. Supporters of the plans include the Sheringham and District Preservation Society.
Tesco's plans for the town have for years aroused both vigorous support and opposition through websites, petitions and letter-writing.
The company, which already has 2,362 stores in the UK, said: "There are a large number of local residents who wish to see a Tesco store in Sheringham."
The latest plans are for a smaller store than those for a previous unsuccessful attempt, although Tesco may yet revive legal action to overturn its dismissal by a planning inspector.
Council officers prefer Tesco's plans because they say they are near the centre of town. Their report to councillors says the impact on the vitality and viability of other shops is considered "on balance" to be acceptable.
Hay-Smith's proposed complex would be about a kilometre walk from the centre of Sheringham, and on an inferior site, according to the report. Despite some "laudable" intentions, it would cause "material harm" to the town.
The local branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England said the planning decision will be a test case for new government planning guidance, alleging that planning officers have not yet taken sufficient account of the wider economic impact of either store plan, including jobs and skills that may be lost.
It is opposing the Tesco plan and taking no position on the alternative. The council says its handling of the plans is not "materially altered" by the.......
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