<p>This is a critique by Environment Support Group of the weak review of the environmental and social impacts of the POSCO project in Orissa, and how this has resulted in making project affected communities into a 'rightless people'.</p>
<p>This MoEF directive held back forest clearance to the POSCO project in Orissa. It has rejected state government’s assurance that there are no tribals in the area, where the 52,000 crore rupee steel-cum-captive power plant is to come up.</p>
The existing Environmental Impact Assessment manual of MoEF is common for all the sectors requiring prior environmental clearance. Considering the diversity in all the sectors related to infrastructure and industrial development, MoEF launched a programme for development of sector specific EIA guidance manual. The EIA guidance manual will help the project proponent
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<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Ors. dated 02/12/2015 regarding municipal solid waste collection, segregation and disposal
Forest Bench says statutory clearance is a must The Forest Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that no iron ore mining operations in Karnataka shall be permitted to resume unless there was statutory clearance for mining and till reclamation and rehabilitation was implemented in full. The Bench, comprising Justice Aftab Alam, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar, took the decision after the Central Empowered Committee in its August 16 report said “no further direction is required regarding sale of iron ore and/or resumption of mining operations by Category A mining leases.”
Condoms are causing the greatest of problems to the people involved in the special silt and garbage clearance drive (SGSCD) launched at the bidding of the Patna high court. While about a month has
Many parts of the Mumbai city are lined with garbage heaps because clearance has showed down, said civic officials. Civic officials hold transporters responsible for this slowdown. The municipal
The Chennai Corporation finalised the tenders for the much hyped privatisation of garbage clearance in Kilpauk and Nungambakkam zones and selected areas. But the agency has deferred the issueance of
• More than 40 people were killed and hundreds injured when a massive earthquake hit Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district in the earthquake- prone Narmada valley on May 22. The earthquake,
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On November 23, the Supreme Court of India refused to permit Vedanta Alumina Limited to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills. Many have interpreted it as a blanket refusal to mining in the hills.
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<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bidu Bhusan Harichandan & Others Vs District Collector Khurdha & Others dated 01/10/2020. The case relates to illegal mining of laterite
Eight more towns in West Bengal will be covered under the Ganga Action Plan (GAP), while 15 others are awaiting clearance from the Supreme Court. The Director of National River Conservation
ON SEPTEMBER 9, the Supreme Court ordered detergent company Nirma to file its reply to the show cause notice issued by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) within three months.
It is a matter of concern that private contractors entrusted with garbage clearance in Bangalore are not rendering satisfactory service. With the tenders expired they are no more accountable for the
The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of an NGO seeking statutory environmental clearance of the ambitious river networking project envisaging to link all major rivers in the country by 2016 to
Infrastructure conglomerate GVK has received environmental clearance from the Queensland government in Australia for its Alpha coal and rail project. The company has set aside $ 10 billion for the project.
The ministry of environment and forests has said it has not yet received any proposal seeking environmental clearance for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's mega petrochemicals project at Mangalore.
