Independent panel for mining lease planned
Wiser from the Judeo sting episode, the Union Environment Ministry has proposed an independent committee and single window clearance for mining lease. It also wants to set a timeframe for clearance
Wiser from the Judeo sting episode, the Union Environment Ministry has proposed an independent committee and single window clearance for mining lease. It also wants to set a timeframe for clearance
The Surface Transport Ministry has given environment clearance to the multi-crore Gujarat Ambuja Cements project to create an oil jetty at the bulk cement terminal at Muldwarka, in Amreli district,
MUMBAI: Social activist Medha Patkar has objected to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's demand for green nod for the first phase of Lavasa. The chief minister had requested Union environment minister
The National Green Tribunal’s principal bench on Wednesday directed Karnataka to take permission from the environment authority before felling any tree in the Yettinahole Irrigation Project area. The
The newly constituted committee on environment clearance to port projects has given nod to the proposals of Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd, Ispat Industries and East India Petroleum Ltd for putting up
New Delhi: The Union environment and forests ministry on Monday extended the moratorium on environmental clearances to new projects in the coastal Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra up to June 2011. In mid-August, the ministry had imposed a four-month moratorium on entertaining any new project for mandatory environmental clearance which expired at the end of 2010. The
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has accorded government clearance to 120 mw Sewa Hydroelectric project, Stage-II, located in Basholi tehsil of Kathua dstrict in Jammu and Kashmir
Agitated over the Centre’s proposed notification relating to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and clearance for development projects, scores of environmentalists form across the
The Madras High Court today gave its go-ahead for the commissioning and fuel loading of the unit 1 of the two 1,000 Mw Russian reactors at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, coming up at Tirunelveli district in Chennai. The green signal is a boost to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd, setting up the units, against which there have been agitations by locals. Dismissing the petitions filed by eight different petitioners on environment safety, the court upheld the recent clearance granted by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).
The shipping ministry plans to approach the Envrironment and Forest Ministry for relaxations on the number of prohibited activities and clearance required in coastal regulation zones under the
Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Monday said 10 more projects of Coal India Ltd facing ecological clearance hurdles had been given a go-ahead by environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh. "Sixteen projects of Coal India have already been cleared.
Mumbai The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has approached the Forest Department in Alibag to obtain clearances under the Indian Forests Act for the Navi Mumbai airport project.
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Friday refused to give environmental clearance to the first phase of Lavasa’s hill town project near Pune till all the pre-conditions set by the state
A hearing held by the Indian People's Tribunal (IPT) about the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) in Konkan region has noted that the environmental clearance given to the project is
The Centre has accorded site clearance to the Jawahar Lift Irrigation Scheme (Nettempadu) in Mahboobnagar district. The site clearance was accorded by the Union environment and forests ministry.
The Centre has accorded site clearance to the Jawahar Lift Irrigation Scheme (Nettempadu) in Mahbubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. The site clearance was accorded by the Union environment and forests
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has completed the re-engineering of the Forest Clearance Process, but its implementation has been held up because of the Supreme Court's intervention.
The High Court on Wednesday stayed work on the Upper Bhadra project taken up in the forested areas of the Bhadra tiger reserve without obtaining clearance from the Union government. Hearing a petition filed by the State unit of Bharatiya Kissan Sangha and others, the Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice K Sreedhar Rao and Justice Abdul Nazeer has granted an interim stay on the construction within the forest area till necessary clearance can be obtained from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Jaintia Hills Round-Up JOWAI: The Jaintia Youth Federation (JYF) has demanded closure of all cement plants operating in Jaintia Hills district saying they are functioning without the necessary clearance from the Ministry of Forest and Environment (MoEF), Government of India. These cements plants, have brought no benefit to the local people, the JYF said in a statement issued on Thursday. “The cement plants have violated the forest conservation Act, 1980,” the statement said.
The Study of Lohit Basin in Arunachal Pradesh has been initiated at the instance of Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India while according prior Environmental Clearance to Demwe Lower hydroelectric