[Reader-list] Write to PM Singh on "Nuke Bill" & "Unlimited LIability"

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear .....,

We have been let down. Yesterday it was BRAI bill today it's the nuclear liability bill. The Standing Committee looking at the nuclear liability bill submitted its report in the Parliament[1]. The Cabinet meets today, the bill gets tabled next week and the BJP is now in support.

The Committee has accepted some of the changes suggested by Greenpeace, but has ignored unlimited liability. In its current form the bill limits the liability for operator of the nuclear facility and if the impacts of a nuclear accident cross it, then the Indian tax payers will be footing the bill.

Nuclear is risky and the Government should exercise highest caution. The Prime Minister, keen on clearing this bill, needs to know that we want unlimited liability. 

Can you write to PM Manmohan Singh asking him to incorporate unlimited liability in the bill?

http://www.greenpeace.org/india/unlimited-liability 

There is very little time to change this clause. A lot of people writing to the PM will make him notice what we want.

Even after the Bhopal fiasco the Government and the main opposition party, have not realised the importance of unlimited liability. Even the current law in the country is for unlimited liability. This bill is making an exception.

Earlier the Standing Committee accepted the following changes proposed by Greenpeace: The victim’s right to re-course, increase in the duration of the right to claim damages and economic channelling, allowing law suits against suppliers. We can try and do the same this time as well.

Show your support for unlimited liability. Write to the PM now.

http://www.greenpeace.org/india/unlimited-liability 

Thanks a billion!

Karuna Raina
Nuclear Campaigner
Greenpeace India 
 
Source:
1. Parliament panel report on Nuclear Liability Bill tabled, The Hindustan Times, 18th, August, 2010
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Parliament-panel-report-on-Nuclear-Liability-Bill-tabled/Article1-588399.aspx