From the coverage in the media, opponents of the llisu Dam project might well think that the long campaign to persuade the brain governmen to drop support for this appalling project.
The ilisu Dam will have a deeply detrimental effect on both the environment and on the mainly Kurdish people of the region who will be dispiced to make way for yet more profit for the multinationals. But any idea that a sliver of "ethical" foreign polcy has prevaled would be profoundly is caken.
In fact New Labour, in the shape of Patricia Hewitt, the new Secretary of State for Irade and industry nas sad that a ocdsion will be taken on September 7 after a period of "consultation.
She gave no indication that there would be any debate in Parliament first, implying that the decision will lie with sovernment miniters, who are much more likely to listen to their friends in the company involved, Balfour beatsy train to tre protestors.
This attempt to side step a full parliamencary debate would go against the recom mendations of two Par ra-mentary Select Committees In May 2001. the Trade and Industry Committee, together with the International Development Committee, demanded that the issues should be debated openly in the House of There can be no doubt that the media spin is an attempt to confuse those who oppose this particular project of capitalist globalisation into a false sense of security.
We won't be taken in like this. The campaign against the llisu Dam will be produc ing detailed briefings responding to the most recent environments report which the government has just received. The pressure must be kept up.
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