The proposed Sharavathi Pumped Storage Energy Project (PSP) in Karnataka’s Western Ghats aims to generate 2,000 MW but is sited within pristine evergreen forests of the Sharavathi Lion-tailed Macaque Wildlife Sanctuary. Under Wildlife Law the siting is illegal.
In this session, Nirmala Gowda and Shankar Sharma will critically examine the project’s disproportionate ecological fallout, its flawed cost–benefit rationale, the availability of less-damaging alternatives, and the failures of environmental governance surrounding it. They will reflect on whether projects like the Sharavathi PSP genuinely advance energy security, or instead compromise it by eroding biodiversity & weakening climate resilience.
Post event video can be found here