CEA nod to UHL hydroelectric project
Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has accorded techno-economic clearance to the Rs 431 crore UHL stage-III hydroelectric project in Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh. The project is expected to
Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has accorded techno-economic clearance to the Rs 431 crore UHL stage-III hydroelectric project in Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh. The project is expected to
<p> The State Board has issued detailed guidelines from time to time to facilitate the process of grant of consent to establish/ consent to operate and to suitably guide/ advise the industries for taking
More than a thousand villagers from Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Raigarh district have expressed their opposition to a mine proposed by Vedanta Resources, a giant multinational. Vedanta, if granted clearance, hopes to mine four million tonnes of coal a year to fuel the expansion of its 810-MW captive power plant on the Bharat Aluminum Company (BALCO) premises in Korba, Chhattisgarh. Vedanta acquir
This appeal is filed challenging the Environmental Clearance (for short EC) granted to Gare – IV/6 Coal Mining Project (4 MTPA) and a Pithead Coal Washery (4 MTPA) of M/s Jindal Steel & Power Limited located
Melbourne/Hyderabad The Australian government has raised objections to environmental clearance given by a provincial government to GVK Group's USD 10 billion Alpha Coal mine project in Galilee Basin, Queensland. The objections raised by the federal government can delay the progress of the project. In a statement, federal minister for environment, Tony Burke, said that the Queensland government has not provided a sound assessment and he will be required to obtain the information that Queensland has failed to provide.
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Sunday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review the mega steel project awarded to South Korean steel giant Posco in Orissa and urged him to immediately withdraw the environmental clearance accorded to the project in light of the continued violence and atrocities against the local population.
<p>A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how
The power ministry will approach the Cabinet soon to seek clearance for the Rs 2,000 crore Tala transmission link between Bhutan and India. The 400 kv high capacity link, being executed as a joint
The Centre has given an in-principle clearance to a Rs 6,088 crore scheme for an ambitious project for converting dryland and dry groundwater areas for greening Gujarat by the end of 2005. This
EIA & EMP for The Proposed 2 X 800 MW Udangudi Super Critical Thermal Power Project ( A CDM Project ) of TANGEDCO. The EIA studies were conducted and EIA/EMP reports were prepared through M/s. „Bhagavathi
SC dismisses petition against Delhi s Akshardham temple
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a special leave petition against a Karnataka High Court judgment refusing to quash, on ecological grounds, the clearance granted by the Union environment
The new procedure adopted by the Union Environment and Forest Mininstry for issuing envrionmental clearance to the renewal of mining lease is making expansion of mining projects in the country
The Cochin Shipyard Ltd has received environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests for its Ship Repair Expansion Project. The main objective of the project, submitted for
Forest Bench issues guidelines for future clearances The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the French cement company Lafarge to mine limestone in the forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya. The Forest Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S.
Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare has criticised Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for making a pro-Lavasa statement. He said the government should instead conduct a serious enquiry and take strict
Problems in land acquisition and environmental clearances have delayed as many as 58 ongoing national highways projects, including 18 in Assam, the government said on Tuesday. “Fifty-eight number of
Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today asked the concerned departments to take due care of environmental and ecological concerns while settling the cases of forest clearance for development projects. Charing the 55th Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) meeting here today, the Chief Secretary suggested undertaking surveys by concerned departments of the forest areas which need to be diverted for the purp
The Sardar Sarovar Project monitoring hierarchy
The Bombay High Court at Goa has disposed off a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed challenging the permission granted by Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) for felling 2500 trees for construction of international cricket stadium in Tivim with a direction to Goa Cricket Association (GCA) that no trees shall be cut until it obtains all construction clearances. The Goa Foundation,