River dams
Sir. — James Haldane's report on Tasmania's controversy over the damming of the Gor-
don River highlights the vulnerability of our planet's ecology under the rapacious talons ; of greedy industrialists and ' unscrupulous politicians. The Tasmanians are not alone in their insularity regarding their immediate environment.. Too many people view our not as a unitary sphere rotat- . ing within a sympathetic solar system, but rather as a collection of unrelated territorial lumps which just happen to be symmetrically interconnected. With the withdrawal of Alusuisse from the Aramoana smelter project. New Zealand joined other countries such as Canada. Brazil. Zaire and Britain in building an electricity "mountain." And yet, hydroelectric "coffins" in New Zealand. having already scarred 67 river basins with hydro dams, are casting glances towards magnificent and expensively inaccessible rivers like, the Wanganui and the Motu. The technocrats even plan to erect a hj'dro white elephant on our own Hurunui. — Yours, etc., BILL FILSHIE. January 30. 1983
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