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New nabobs
Will SEZs be fiefdoms, beyond the law?
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Dupont decried
After the Thapar Dupont plant was driven out of Goa, and it found a refuge in Tamil Nadu, a ho,n,t's nest has again been stirred up
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Standing their own
The Sindh Wildlife Department is opposing oil exploration in a national park in Pakistan
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Deja vu
Coal based thermal power plants come back to haunt villages in Udupi district, Karnataka
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Aravallis razed
Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining Call it sheer callousness of the Rajasthan government or connivance between administrative officials and
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Under international censure
The Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station has managed to secure a World Bank loan of $400 million, but the allegations of environmental degradation levelled against it are mounting
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Span Resorts: motel mayhem
Was the motel owned by a former environment minister's relatives really responsible for destroying the pristine banks of the Beas? The apex court thinks so, but question marks persist
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Chronology Of Events
July 1987: Karnataka Power Corpora-tion Limited (kpcl) notifies a 2 x 210 mw coal based Thermal Power Station at Nandikur. August 1987: mef issues guidelines for citing of Thermal Power
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Easier to mine
A MEF proposal wants to do away with environmental clearance for small scale mining
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Project vs Protest
1949: Dam conceived 1961: Tehri chosen as tentative site 1967 to 1972: Sporadic protests begin 1972: Planning Commission go-ahead 1978: Construction begins under police
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Nearing clearance
EVEN as J R D Tata, the grand old man of Tata Sons Ltd, called upon people to support the shrimp-farm project at Chilika the Union forests and environment minister Kamal Nath nominated scientists D
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Brazil gives go ahead to GM corns
Despite objections from environmental and consumer groups, Brazil has authorized commercial use of two varieties of genetically modified (gm) corn. On February 12, the National Biosecurity
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Green appraisal
FIVE projects in the country are under review as per the recent Supreme Court order directing the Central government to appoint separate scientific teams to verify the environmental viability of
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Offshore wind power vs. Onshore wind power
<p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Govt. gets its off shore wind policy right, but what about onshore wind power reforms ?</span></strong><br /> <br /> The <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/draft-national-policy-for-offshore-wind.pdf">Draft
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The small big polluter
Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective technologies and find shelter in policies that provide reservation in pollution-free sectors?<p> <font face=arial
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Protests against methane mining in Chhattisgarh
Residents of around 25 villages recently stopped the public hearing for a proposed methane extraction project. The 500-odd people from Gharghonda tehsil in Raigarh, armed with the Centre for
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Hell and high water
The incendiary Sardar Sarovar Dam project came to a head on March 15 this year, when Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) agitators, led by the redoubtable Medha Patkar, demonstrated in front of the ministry of environment and forests, asking the government to op
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Meghalaya limestone quarries closed
French multinational Lafarge's limestone quarries in Meghalaya, which supply raw material to its cement plant across the border in Bangladesh have been shut down by the government. This comes
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Good growth needs better regulation
It is said everyone, from the Prime Minister downwards, is concerned with the process of environmental clearances: the process takes too much time, it is cumbersome and impedes the breakneck speed of
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Jaya baalu feud
The battle between the Union minister of environment and forests, T R Baalu, and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa over an amendment to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification has taken