MoEF team visits Posco site for green clearance
More than four months after the National Green Tribunal suspended the environmental clearance granted to Korean steelmaker Posco for its 12 million tonne per annum integrated steel complex in Orissa’s
More than four months after the National Green Tribunal suspended the environmental clearance granted to Korean steelmaker Posco for its 12 million tonne per annum integrated steel complex in Orissa’s
The expert committee’s visit to Odisha on Tuesday to reassess the ecological impact of the Posco steel project lasted only for one hour and covered only selective sites, green activists have alleged.
A four-member expert team constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is scheduled to visit the proposed Posco steel plant site near Paradip on Tuesday. The team was formed by MoEF in line with the order of the National Green Tribunal which had suspended the environmental clearance of the project in March this year and wanted an expert team to visit the site to assess the impact of the project on the environment afresh.
The Odisha government has decided to resume the land acquisition process for South African steelmaker Posco’s project, which was stalled indefinitely in June last year following protests by villagers and Left leaders. The decision was taken in a meeting convened by Chief Secretary B K Patnaik on 16 August, where officials of the Central Revenue Division Commissioner, Posco-India, Jagatsinghpur district administration and Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Odisha (Idco) were present.
The National Green Tribunal has asked the Union ministry of environment and forests to display forest clearances granted by it in the future on its own website within a week from the date when the clearance
All cases on environmental issues — save those related to wildlife — will be transferred to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which is not fully operational even more than a year after it was set up.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Adivasi Majdoor Kisan Ekta Sangthan & Others Vs Ministry of Environment and Forests & Others regarding Environmental Clearance granted to Gare – IV/6
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National Green Tribunal (NGT) has suspended the environment clearance granted to the proposed POSCO project in Orissa on grounds of faulty Environment Impact Assessment. Read text of this NGT verdict appreciated by the anti-POSCO activists.
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National Green Tribunal Judgment dated 9/02/2012, on Sponge Iron Plant in District Raigarh, Chattisgarh, before 2004 i.e. prior to issuance of EIA Notification, 2006. The production capacity of the said
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The Bombay High Court has said it will decide whether the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Act of 2010 can be used to adjudicate alleged irregularities by the Lavasa township. A bench will now decide whether
There is good news on the environment front for Green warriors.