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Sand mining in Alappuzha: People call the shots
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6 held for illegal sand quarrying
The Greater Chennai Police have arrested six persons in connection with the illegal quarrying of sand on the banks of Adyar river, near Ekkattuthangal. The police action comes in the wake of a report
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Thirty lorries loaded with illegal sand seized
BURDWAN, 6 NOV: Thirty lorries, loaded with illegally-extracted sand from the Ajoy riverbed, were seized by the Durgapur SDO yesterday evening. The illegal consignment were meant to be transported to Dankuni,
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The economic contributions of U.S. mining, 2007
This analysis uses input-output analysis to examine the economic contributions of U.S. mining in terms of output, employment, payroll, personal income and payroll taxes. For the purpose of this analysis, the U.S. mining includes the mining of coal, uranium, metal ores, stone quarrying, sand and gravel and other nonmetallic minerals. It excludes oil and natural gas extraction.
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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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Against the wall
Even as experts argue that seawalls are not an answer to coastal erosion, the Kerala government is planning another project
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Curbs on illegal sand mining by brick kilns
The Kochi district administration ordered stringent measures against all unauthorised sand excavation units owned by brick kiln operators in various parts of the district. All police sub-inspectors
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Sand mining shifts to Kerala paddy fields
For sand miners in Kerala, who won't get permission to mine sand from the rivers following a Government ban from July 1 for three months, the availability of sand deposits in certain low-lying areas
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Court regrets continuance of sand quarrying
Expressing regret over the fact that officials were unable to stop illicit sand quarrying even after court orders and the Government ban on private quarrying, the Madras High Court has flayed the
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Court flays sand quarrying nexus
Expressing regret over the fact that officials were unable to stop illicit sand quarrying even after court orders and the Government ban on private quarrying, the Madras High Court has flayed the
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Arrest and prosecute illegal sand miners: court
Unless the Government issues strict instructions to arrest and prosecute illegal sand miners, there is no hope of stopping the harm to ecology, the Madras High Court has said.Expressing concern at
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River sand seized
A special squad of the police department seized huge quantities of sand which were stocked at various places in the Varapuzha police station limits in Kerala. The police team, led by Probationary
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Sand quarrying system is transparent: court
The validity of the present system of appointing loading contractors for handling sand quarried by the Public Works Department has been upheld by the Madras High Court, which ruled "the system is
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Greens up in arms against Koorumala project
The Koorumala in Elanji panchayat in Kerala, where a project for manufacturing sand from granite is coming up, has become a symbol of resistance for the Geens who have been agitating against the
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Unauthorised lifting of sand from Sitalakkya at Kapasia
A group of sand traders has been running unhindered business by stealing sand worth lakhs of Taka from 'Sitalakkya' river flowing through Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district (Bangladesh) and the
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Eco-balance crumbling like sand structure
The sand on Hemavathi riverbed in Holenarasipura in hassan district of Karnataka, is being systematically stripped by persons who do not care that they are disturbing the ecological balance by
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Arable lands vanish fast over people's greed
Without caring at all for the government permission or maintaining environment codes, people are lifting rocks from vast patches of cultivable land in Panchagarh and some parts of Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari. Once arable, the pieces of land in the neighbourhoods of Tentulia turn uncultivable as the rock-lifters, who don't pay the government any revenue, abandon those. After extracting every available piece of rock, the lifters find it too expensive to fill up the pits, which contain only sand and oozing water and lie unused for years.
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Stop mining at Gundaru river, says Jayalalithaa
AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday demanded that the sand quarry across Gundaru river in Tiruchuzhi taluk in Virudhunagar district should be closed down immediately as all norms for quarrying had been violated there affecting the ground water table in the area, besides causing serious and horrible drinking water scarcity. AIADMK cadre will stage a demonstration in front of Tiruchuzhi taluk office on May 29 protesting the mindless sand quarrying which had been going on across Gundaru, Jayalalithaa said in a statement here.
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Locals allege illegal sand extraction in Pernem
Residents of Haldankarwada-Porascadem have voiced concern over sand extraction in Parascodem-Pernem, Goa, which has resulted in rapid soil extraction. At a recent meeting, the villagers expressed
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Beach minerals to be scrapped from prescribed substance list
The government is preparing to remove some beach sand minerals from the list of prescribed substances to help create an indigenous titanium industry. The minerals that would be delisted are ilmenite,