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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Govt didn't submit assurance on Posco project
Bhubaneswar: Though a month has elapsed since the Centre accorded conditional clearance to the Posco project, the Odisha government finds it tough to submit its assurance to the ministry of environment and forest on proper implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. While giving conditional clearance to the Rs 52,000 crore project on January 31, the Centre had sought written assurance from t
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Fresh petitions from villagers come in way of Posco clearance
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is struggling to assure the Union environment ministry in writing that diversion of forest land for the Posco steel project will not infringe on the Forest Rights Act. Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cleared the project on January 31 and the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa was to send the crucial assurance by the second week of February.
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Life Beyond Jairam
As environment ministers go, Jairam Ramesh is a breath of fresh air: he has made environment part of the economic discourse. He has brought in a measure of transparency and out-of-the-box thinking to environmental governance.
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How realpolitik got in way of Ramesh's all-out green zeal
To many, ecology clearances coming in quick succession first for the 12-million-tonne steel project, including a captive power complex and a minor port that the South Korean Posco is diligently pursuing for close to six years and then for SAIL
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Posco satisfied with MoEF conditions: Korea
Korean Ambassador to India Kim Joong Keun today said Posco was satisfied with the conditions laid down by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) while according green signal to the project last month.
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Somersault on POSCO
<p>Open letter to Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Government of India on POSCO.</p>
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Two Orissa villages oppose Posco project
New Delhi: The Orissa government bats for it, the PMO is in favour and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has obliged, but the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project has found two difficult adversaries
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Anti-Posco activists dig up approach roads
PARADIP: An uneasy calm prevails in Dhinkia panchayat, the proposed Posco site, with irate villagers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur, Patana and Noliasahi digging up approach roads at 15 points from Jatadhari mouth to Dhinkia to prevent officials and police from entering the project site.
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Angry villagers damage approach road to Posco site
DHINKIA: The agitation against land acquisition for the Posco steel plant intensified in this seaside gram panchayat in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday, with the villagers damaging an approach road to the area earmarked for the project. Led by Abhay Sahu, chairman of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, which has been spearheading the protest since July 2005, more than 150 people from different
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How Posco got the green nod & Vedanta got stuck
Court And Government Overstepped Limits, Helping Secure Provisional Nod For One Project And Nixing The Other Both are mining projects in Orissa and both involve diversion of forest land for non-forest purposes.