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...antidam groups got funding from the World Wildlife Fund-France and formed Loire Vivante. Jean, then an unemployed single mother, was named its first coordinator in early 1987. Among her first acts was to organize environmental-impact studies showing that the dams would harm water quality, threaten biodiversity, destroy several villages, displace hundreds of people--and still fail to provide good protection against flooding. In 1989 the group launched its most spectacular and effective action: the occupation of the Serre-de-la-Fare site by several hundred ecologists who camped in tents, cooked over open fires, strummed guitars--and blocked...
...parcels of about one square yard each, and offered them for sale at $20 apiece. So far, they have sold about 1,000, thus complicating to a fare-thee-well the paper work that the Government must perform to gain control of the land. At the very least, said antidam Farmer Lynn Martin, the tactic "will give us a war chest." But how long or how effectively it will obstruct the dam, he can only guess. Perhaps only until the next flood...
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