<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) regarding illegal sand mining being done at the Balod Pod sand mine located in Balod district, Chhattisgarh.</p> <p>A report was called
The Australian government rejected a request by the United Nations World Heritage committee to halt construction of a uranium mine in a national park. Canberra said it would compile a "comprehensive
A legal change will allow mines to cover up to 50,000 rai, leading to fears that Thailand's forests will be damaged. The Mineral Resources Department (MRD) is to amend the Mining Bill. It will also
Coal mines suddenly flooded, killing 35 persons and leaving one other missing and presumed dead in southwestern China's Guangxi region, according to a report. The flood occurred on October 25 at two
Surinam government is locked in bitter dispute with two hinterland communities over their right to occupy their traditional lands and the state's anxiety to dish out concessions to foreign investors.
Eleven years of wrangling over a giant open-cast mining project west of Cologne was resolved, ending the threat of government crisis in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. After intervention
The Ministry of Enviornment and Forests has granted permission to mining companies to carry out test-drilling without prior site clearance and public hearing which was so far necessary under the
The world's new aluminiun smelters in Mozambique and Alma will convert electric power that is at present surplus to local requirements into blocks of aluminium which can then be easily exported.
The World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park is under immediate threat from uranium mining, a World Heritage delegation in Australia will be told this week. The unprecedented mission to Kakadu by
For the first time in Goa's history, the all-powerful mining lobby had to face the brunt of the Government authorities with over half of their non-registered mining machinery being raided and
The Supreme Court isued notice to the Tamil Nadu Government on a petition by the Tamil Nadu Building Material Manufacturers and Transport Association to seek permission for stone quarries within 500
