PRESS RELEASECRZ Plan Should Consider Sea Level Rise: Fishers, Environmentalists urge

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Highlighting a 2012 report that predicts that 3209.33 sq. km of Tamil Nadu's coast islikely to be submerged and millions rendered homeless if sea level rises by 1 m by2100, fisherfolk and environmentalists have urged the state government to ensurethat the soon-to-be released Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) accounts forSea Level Rise (SLR) and contains the mandatory hazard line, long-term plans forfisher housing and prospective land-use. Under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)Notification, 2011, each maritime state ought to have prepared its CZMP by 2012containing these mandatory elements. Despite the dire warnings contained in thereport – “Coastal Zones of India” – by ISRO's Space Application Centre (SAC), theGovernments of India and Tamil Nadu have allowed densification of industrialinstallations and urban sprawl in vulnerable coastal areas. Prepared in 2012, the SAC's report predicts that for a 1 m sea level rise by 2100, sq.km of state highway, 85.66 km of railway infrastructure, 497.65 sq.km of croplandand 826 sq.km of aquifers will be submerged or degraded by tidal action. Anotherdocument – “Future Sea Level Rise: Assessment of Loss and Damage in 2015” –prepared for the State Planning Commission predicts that in Chennai alone, 10 lakhpeople and 144 sq.km of land are in danger of submergence due to SLR by 2050. While the SAC's report has been quietly filed away, the State Planning Commission'sreport on Chennai has not been published despite its public importance. As per the submergence maps contained in the SAC's report, Chennai stands to lose3.11 sq. km of critical industrial infrastructure, almost all in the Ennore region. NTECLVallur, all of TANGEDCO's power plants in Ennore, Kamarajar Port's existing andproposed infrastructure inside the Creek, HPCL and BPCL's oil terminals, the Minjurdesalination plant and portions of CPCL's petrochemical refinery in Manali will beswallowed by the sea. The groundwater resources of Araniyar-Kosasthalaiyar basinwill be degraded due to tidal ingress. The entire IT corridor will be affected by sealevel rise and most of the newly developed areas in Pallikaranai marshlands will besubmerged under an advancing sea. Industries and settlements in low-lying areas – such as the proposed 4000 MWCheyyur plant and existing nuclear complex in Kalpakkam, the existing IL&FS plantand proposed petroleum refinery and Petrochemical Investment Region in Cuddaloreand Nagapattinam, industrial installations and salt pans in Tuticorin and theKoodankulam nuclear reactors are located in vulnerable areas that are prone eitherto submergence or degradation due to tidal action. “Climate change and sea level rise are real and present dangers. The CZMP offersan opportunity to plan for the decongesting of the coast. Other countries are doingthat. We must start retreating from the sea and improving our natural safeguardsagainst extreme sea-borne events,” said Pooja Kumar of Coastal Resource Centre. K. Saravanan, whose village Urur Kuppam is already witnessing erosion, says “TheCZMP should include a long-term housing plan for coastal communities as we arebeing squeezed by a seaward moving city and a land-ward moving tide.” For More Information, contact – Pooja Kumar – 9791122180Organized by – The Coastal Resource Centre, 92, 3rd Cross Street, ThiruvalluvarNagar, Besant Nagar, Chennai 600090

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