Oceanarium to be assessed for CRZ clearance
The Rs. 450-crore Oceanarium project proposed at Kochi will face its first major test for implementation on Tuesday when it will be scrutinised for Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance. B. Madhusoodana
The Rs. 450-crore Oceanarium project proposed at Kochi will face its first major test for implementation on Tuesday when it will be scrutinised for Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance. B. Madhusoodana
The Ministry of Environment and Forests is all set to overhaul the process of granting clearances through the Environment Impact Assessments (EIAs). Come June, consultants who prepare EIAs will have to be accredited by the Quality Council of India
The ministry raises concerns that Forest Rights Act doesn't provide any exception to the need for tribal consent to divert their traditional forest lands for industrial projects The tribal affairs ministry
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has received a shot in the arm with a Union ministry of environment and forests committee recommending environmental clearance for the firm
An 11-member technical team from the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) visited the Lavasa hill station project, 65 km from the city, on Wednesday for a detailed assessment of the Rs 3,000-crore project in Pune district. The team will be in Pune for three days to ready the report on the project. The construction of the project was held up for want of environmental clearance.
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Debashis Das Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Others dated 16/04/2021. The matter related to illegal sand mining carried on in the river
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has asked the central government as well as state government to show whether environment and wildlife clearances were given by authorities to big industrial houses for setting up units near Gulf of Kutch.
THE government aims at giving faster approval to coal projects that are delayed due to environment and forestry clearances and is planning a new system for allocating coal blocks that would clearly specify `go
NEW DELHI, 6 JULY: As the country battles coal shortage, the Prime Minister's Office today sought to give a push to its production by directing the environment ministry to grant clearances to 12 projects
She also requested the prime minister to tell the ministry of environment and forests not to give clearance to any project of Karnataka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advise Karanataka not to build any hydel power projects on the Cauvery.
<p>Judgment of the National Green Tribual dated 07/02/2023 in the matter of Mahakar Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others.</p> <p>Mahakar Singh of village Dujana Pargana, tehsil Dadri, district
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has accepted coal-based power producers’ demand for a parallel processing of environment and forest clearances, instead of sequential clearances. This would help power producers secure these clearances early. The MoEF’s decision, made last week, is expected to fast-track clearances to complete the proposed power capacity addition of 62,000 Mw of the total 75,000 Mw based on coal during the 12th five-year plan. The ministry’s April 19 office memorandum also comes at a time when Coal India has agreed to sign a fuel supply agreement with power producers.
Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan is slated to meet the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the environment ministry on October 22 in Mumbai over the long-pending green clearance for the ambitious Navi Mumbai airport.
Lavasa Corporation can look forward to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) clearance in three weeks. The Maharashtra Government on Thursday assured the Bombay High Court of initiating ‘credible'
The environment ministry is locked in a power tussle with the coal and mines ministry. The department of mines wants control over environmental clearance of its projects, but the environment ministry
This document contains the presentation by Partha J Das of Aaranyak, Guwahati (Assam) on "Green clearance to HEPs in NE India: Issues and concerns", at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances
The Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project under the consideration of the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, envisages creation of a ship navigation channel to suit different draughts (9.15 m, 10.7
CHENNAI: The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the Adyar Poonga, a pet project of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, has been a contentious issue right from the beginning. Environmental activists cited several violations and procedural flaws in its conception. The first and the most glaring one relates to the CRZ clearance.
Wants the size and lease period of another in Changlang district of Arunachal to be reduced. The Mahan coal block in the dense forests of Madhya Pradesh may never make to the auction table. Taking advantage
The KSK group company, Kameng Dam Hydro Power, is working on a 420-MW hydel project The Environment Ministry has declined clearance to hydel power project of the KSK group saying the unit proposed in Arunanchal Pradesh may fall under an area demarcated for a wildlife sanctuary, and is close to the Pakke Tiger Reserve. The KSK group company, Kameng Dam Hydro Power Pvt Ltd, is working on the 420-MW hydel power project, which has already been relocated once.