1988. május (109-137. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
lküo^7^n SÜSImÍ Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 116/1988 (E) 7th May, 1988 Austrian Lecturer At Environmental Debate There was an Austrian guest at the Rakpart Club meeting yesterday evening May 6th which was organised in Budapest in the Jurta Theatre dealing with Western alter- native environmental movements and Green parties. The invited guest Michael Köscher, a cultural anthropologist, gave a lecture entitled "The Greens’ Europe1’. The lecturer was primarily concerned with the co-operation between the Green parties and ecology movements and the difference between the situation of the Austrian and Hungárián environmentalists. The Austrian environmentalists wish to defend the population’s interests by democratic means against state and big syndicate interests; in Western democracies this area is much freer, there is no censorship. Construction of a hydroelectric plánt at Hainburg has been success- fully stopped by a movement which exists legally, by political pressure. The Bös-Nagymaros hydroelectric plánt - said Koscher - should nőt be built under any circumstances. Co-operation between East and West is very important, those movements which have protested up until now have already had a positive effect; the Hungárián, Austrian and Czech environmentalists have made a common plán of action, have accomplished co-ordinated actions and have published common information publications. During the debate László Vit asked Köscher to speak about the time when they dis- tributed pamphlets in Budapest condernning their own government which resulted in the árrést and deportation of Austrian MPb by the Hungárián police. Köscher said that the May 1987 and other similar actions are much more effective than parliamentary protest and are at the same time an example to other West-European environmentalists. The Austrian expressed his opinion that the scheme to build the Bős-Nagymaros hydroelectric plánt is really about the Hungárián government’s political prestige. Mihály Horváth - leader of the Rakpart Club - added that it is really about sticking to agreements within the federal system. Tamás Tóth and László Vit listed data about the natúré, scale and absurdity of this huge investment. György Gadó proposed public attention seeking actions and the estab- lishment of an intemational environmentalist court which would condemn politic- ians and other responsible individuals who in their professional capacity con- tinue to destroy the environment. An engineer working in hydro-power - Miklós Marék - defended the hydro-electric plánt plán: Hungary does nőt have many energy source choices and it is possible to accomodate construction intő the landscape. The speaker’s stateaent was nőt popular, it was dismissed by the máj őrity of the meeting’s participants in their penetrating speeches. sJ —----------' ]Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
