IT WAS a fast track venture that sought to get round procedures perfunctorily, even if this meant fudging environmental impact assessments EIAs and doctoring public hearings. No wonder the Karnataka government has had to ground the Dandeli Mini Hydel Po
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly influential in the past 50 years. Awareness of human rights and social and environmental causes has increased, and NGOs have helped empower people. This has raised the hackles of power hounds,
...although the now bald pate of Iceland was once resplendent with grass and verdant willow, rowan and birch forests
<p>Aided by officialdom and politicos, polluting industries seem well cushioned against thunderous court orders</p>
Government support to Vedanta’s alumina project in Orissa creates more uproar; company pays token fine
• Elephant deaths are being frequently reported from many parts of the country. Recently, an elephant carcass was discovered in Jharkhand's Palamau Tiger Reserve and two elephants, including a
widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S
taking the initiative once again from legislators and executive bodies in safeguarding India's environment, the judiciary has targeted forest management as its current interest. The interim
Cement packing unit stalled
<p><span>The rejection of forest clearance for mining Niyamgiri is indeed a historic decision.
The dam's safety and design parameters must be cleared by the MEF. Environmental management plans must be formulated and clearance obtained from the MEF. Catchment area treatment: THDC will
the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) cleared a controversial mining project by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited in Meghalaya last month, triggering fresh protests by local
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
The Aral Sea crisis exemplifies " creeping environmental problems", and unless India's environment ministers devote more time to natural resource management, we will multiply tragedies like Kalahandi and Palamau
Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history"s deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. India needs the technical knowledge of the Western world. Union Carbide recently made available its vast scie
No industrial revolution this
Criminals followed corrupt politicians into grabbing contracts related to earthworks. Today, they fund political parties and virtually run the state
The situation is, if anything, worse in the north Indian states like Punjab, where many industrialists acknowledge they are not even aware of the possibility of their products being toxic or of solid
A beach resort proposed to be situated within a protected area near Puri has drawn the wrath of environmentalists who contend it will ruin the natural habitat of such endangered species as the black buck
the Chhattisgarh government reiterated in February that industries not in compliance with emission norms could not be established in three industrial areas in Raipur, the state's capital, until
