Eco clearances status to be put online
New Delhi, July 1 The Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Wednesday announced that the Web site for Environmental and Forestry Clearances has been made more accessible and user-friendly.
New Delhi, July 1 The Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Wednesday announced that the Web site for Environmental and Forestry Clearances has been made more accessible and user-friendly.
A high-level environment ministry panel has recommended coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance for setting up a desalination unit at Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu. The desalination
SLUM dwellers facing the danger of eviction sent 100 telegrams to Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Friday to cancel the clearance given by the ministry to the elevated Expressway from the port to Maduravoyal, running across the River Cooum.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has tightened pollution monitoring norms for power projects with a generation capacity of 500 Mw and above, integrated steel plants with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per annum and cement plants with a capacity of 3 million tonnes per annum which have already been granted environmental clearance. Further, the existing quantum of penalty prescribed
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NEW DELHI: The Environment Ministry has given Lavasa Corporation one more day to submit maps and other data regarding its hill city project near Pune, which failed to get a green clearance from the central government.
BHUBANESWAR: Renewed concerns over wildlife and environment may put a brake on the Brutanga irrigation project in Nayagarh district which was accorded stage-I forest clearance by the Centre a few days back.
The National Green Tribunal has sought the reply of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on a plea against grant of any clearance to any new project in ecologically sensitive Western Ghats. The Tribunal also issued notices to the state governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu seeking their replies on the plea for implementation of the report by Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) on the protection and preservation of Western Ghats.
In a bid to speed up development in naxal-affected areas, the environment ministry has decided to exempt public infrastructure projects from seeking forest clearance in 35 additional districts. In May
The fate of the 6 million tonne Bina refinery hangs in balance with the final hurdle of environment clearance pending with the Centre. The delay has caused significant cost over-runs estimated to be
The environment and forests ministry has issued the environment clearance to the six million tonne Bina refinery project to be set up in Madhya Pradesh, thus clearing a major hitch.High level
Union environment ministry has sought an explanation from Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on drilling for oil gas in the east coast without the mandatory environment clearance. The issue might affect
Good news for power-starved Maharashtra. The Union ministry of environment and forests has given environment clearance for the now unbundled Maharashtra State Electricity Board's (MSEB) plan to
New Delhi: In another embarrassment for the poll-bound BSP government in Uttar Pradesh, the Union environment ministry has put Ansal’s 2,400-acre housing project, Hi-Tech Township City, at Dadri on hold
Bhubaneswar: The proposed all-weather multipurpose port near the Subarnarekha river mouth in Balasore district has received environmental clearance of the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry
The National Green Tribunal has cancelled the environmental clearance given to the Jindal Steel and Power Company’s coal mining and washery project in Chhattisgarh. The clearance was set aside on the grounds
JOWAI: Concerned over the devastating effect of mining on environment and its components, the Jaintia Forum for Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage (JFBCH) has urged the Central and the State Government and all the concerned authorities to stop issuing the clearance certificates for expansion of all the existing cements plants in Jaintia Hills District.
For the first time, the Environment Ministry is set to categorise violations of conditions of ‘green clearances’ given to commercial projects in a way that a variety of violations, conventionally considered
the Union ministries for power and environment have locked horns over new hydroelectric and thermal power projects. In a meeting held in the first week of September, officials of the power ministry demanded speedy clearances for their projects. Environment ministry officials refused this, saying the projects will not be cleared if their environmental impact assessments (eias ) are faulty.