Lights off for an hour tonight - Gammanpila
March 27, 2011 05:58 pm
Western Province Environment Minister Udaya Gammanpila requested the public to turned off their lights between 8.30 and 9.30 p.m. in view of Earth Day which the rest of the world celebrated yesterday (March 26).
He added that it was in order to save the world from natural disasters that this gesture was observed while he stated that the rising use of fossil fuels had resulted in an increase in natural disasters around the world.