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Shipping shortcut poses environmental risks

C.P. Rajendran
5 October 2007                                                                                                                           
Source: SciDev.Net
Dredging India’s Sethusamundram ship channel poses environmental risks, and could even magnify future tsunami damage, says C.P. Rajendran.
The Sethusamundram ship channel project is deepening a 75 kilometre section of the 152 kilometre passage in the shallow sea between India and Sri Lanka. On the face of it, the idea is [...]