The 2,000 MW, billion-dollar marvel of engineering

🧨 Dynamite blasts through an ancient forest. It digs a tunnel. It stirs up dust of a new kind. It makes strange new noises. Run-down trucks carry heavy machinery and materials. Diesel fumes pierce through the air. It threatens to fragment the largest population of one of the rarest animals on earth 🙈

All this for a project that might use up more electricity than it generates?

There are many concerns about the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project, which has now got the in-principle nod from the National Board for Wildlife - from the wildlife that will be affected to the lack of a rehabilitation or resettlement plan for the 130 families living in the vicinity of the project site.