Loopholes aplenty
Some of the flaws in the current public hearing notification:
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Unfair balance
The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill 2002 (the Bill) has come 30 years after the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972. Have these three decades been used to integrate the critical lessons learnt from
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Posco ball in Ramesh court after panels split verdict
THE Posco review panel on Monday submitted a "split verdict" on the South Korean steel maker's Orissa project. Although the dominant view was for revoking of environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances, government sources said that a reworking of the proposal could clear the way for the project.
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Jinxed dam
A fresh snag hounds the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project
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Dhola-Sidh project upgraded to 66 MW
Hamirpur: The work on Dhola-Sidh, the first hydel project of Hamirpur district, being built on the Beas near Nadaun by the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN), would begin by March next year. The clearance for term of reference (TOR) for the project, which has now been upgraded from the proposed 40 to 66 MW, was granted recently the by Union Ministry of Environment.
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Bailing out turtles
A Kerala village strives to save Olive Ridley turtles threatened by indiscriminate sand mining
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Tehri: hanging over troubled waters
What will happen now to the Tehri dam? Even as engineers and environmentalists await the Prime Minister's verdict on the project, the proposed dam has been hit by yet another tremor the drying up of Soviet funds
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Final order on POSCO dated 31st January, 2011
<p>MoEF has granted conditional environmental clearance to POSCO for its steel-cum-captive-power plant & a captive minor port at Orissa and has demanded an assurance from the state government that forest rights are not being violated.</p>
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Timarpur waste management company in Delhi set to revive plant
Timarpur waste management company in Delhi set to revive plant
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The states see red
TILL the other day, the Rajasthan chief minister, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, seemed to spend much of his time frozen on an anti-environmentalist platform, ranting against the Union ministry of
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"Stealing" Orissa's prospects
Will the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) never let Orissa prosper? Biju Patnaik has been claiming so for years now. Adding more grist to his mill, the MEF has recently put the spanner in
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Key players in the clearance process
Under the provisions of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, if a project requires diversion of forestland for non-forest use, prior approval of the Centre is imperative. For this, one needs to apply to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) through the state forest department. A Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) at MoEF scrutinizes the proposal and based on certain criteria either grants or rejects clearance. The approval depends on the achievements of the state government concerned to guarantee land for compensatory afforestation.
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"Environmentalists' criticism of industries is not correct"
H D DEVE GOWDA is today the Prime Minister PM of India. Till last month, he was the chief minister of Karnataka. His sole aim there was to make Karnataka the most industrialised state. And he couldn't care less about the environmental fallout. Indee
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View from the top
Planners must stop looking down at hill stations
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Kamal Nath buys time on Chilika
Environment minister Kamal Nath has been caught in the firing line on the Chilika Aquatic Farms project. His order for an environmental impact assessment to be prepared is merely a move to delay taking a decision.
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Feasibility Study Report & Form-1 Application for Mines in Cluster No. 6 as per approved Cluster Concept for Raniganj Coalfield, Eastern Coalfields Limited
<p><strong>Background </strong></p> <div> The cluster approach for obtaining environmental clearances for mines in the Raniganj Coalfields of Eastern Coalfields Ltd. and in other old coalfields like
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National biodiversity plan admits India has failed to conserve biodiversity
The Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) says India's vast gene pool in agriculture and livestock has been widely ignored, creating a food security risk in the country Measures to
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Malls in Ahmedabad violate green norms
an ngo has asked Gujarat's pollution control board for details of the clearances granted to over 12 large-scale shopping malls in Ahmedabad. It has alleged that most of the malls in the city
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Promises and lies
Supreme Court stays government"s sham deal of promising land to tribals
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FOLLOW UP
Industrialised nations are planning to impose a moratorium on the export of hazardous ship-for-scrap to developing countries, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Environmentalists are strongly