No Posco, but 3L trees axed for project
Bhubaneswar: As uncertainty prevails over South Korean steel giant Posco's proposed plant near Paradip, the state government on Tuesday informed the assembly that around three lakh trees were felled during
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Posco gets final forest clearance
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has granted the final forest clearance to Posco's Rs.54,000-crore integrated steel plant in Orissa, even while urging action against the sarpanch of one of the villages protesting against the project. Last month, Mr.
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Posco gets final nod for Orissa project
Ramesh OKs diversion of 1,253 hectares but says no to raw material export; Co to bear cost of regeneration of forest land Ending a year-long wait, the environment ministry gave final clearance to the South Korean steel maker Posco
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Pro-Posco villagers hail MoEF decision
The villagers supporting the Posco
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POSCO: Final order and other relevant documents
<p>This MoEF order dated May 2, 2011 has granted final approval to Orissa for diversion of 1,253 hectares of forest land for Posco's steel project. It says that the steel firm should not export raw material from the proposed project.<br /> <br /> <strong>See Also<br />
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POSCO: Ball now in Rameshs court
<p>BHUBANESWAR: As the Orissa Government on Saturday responded to Ministry of Environment and Forest’s (MoEF) queries on Posco project, the “ball” was back in Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s “court.” “Yes, after the State Government sent its reply to the MoEF, the ball is back in my court,” Ramesh told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Nav
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Fresh MoU with Posco soon: Naveen Patnaik
BHUBANESWAR: Caught on a wrong foot for not renewing the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korean steel major Posco even after its expiry in June last year, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said that his Government would sign a fresh MoU with the company shortly. The Chief Minister
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Fate of 3 mega-thermal power plants uncertain
BHUBANESWAR: After Posco and Vedanta, fate of three mega thermal power projects of the State hangs in balance as the Ministry of Environment and Forest continues to take a tough stand on the issue of granting statutory clearance for mining coal from the allotted blocks. Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today categorically said that grant of mining clearance to a
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Posco project may have cleared last hurdle
Orissa disposes resolutions passed by Dhinkia & Gobindapur palli sabhas The Orissa government may have managed to remove the final impediment for diversion of 1,253 hectares forest to South Korean steel major Posco for its .
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Tearing through the water landscape: evaluating environmental & social consequences of POSCO project, Odisha
<p>This is a critique by Environment Support Group of the weak review of the environmental and social impacts of the POSCO project in Orissa, and how this has resulted in making project affected communities into a 'rightless people'.</p>
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Anti-Posco activists stage demo at Balitutha
PARADIP: The activists of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti, the organisation spearheading anti-Posco movement, demonstrated at Balitutha on Friday ahead of Union Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh visit to Bhitarkanika.