Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)

JAYANTA BASU Calcutta, Sept.

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Bhubaneswar: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Tuesday accorded the Stage I forest clearance to the Brutang Irrigation Project in Nayagarh district. The Odisha government on March 18 had submitted a proposal to obtain MoEF’s prior approval for diversion of 1,524.17 hectare of forestland for construction of the project. This is a reservoir scheme across river Brutang, a right

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Bhubaneswar: The ministry of environment and forest on Wednesday issued show cause notice to Vedanta Aluminum Ltd asking as to why the Stage II environment clearance should be given and why its six million expansion proposal of its aluminum refinery should not be stopped. Just a few days ago, the ministry had rejected Vedanta’s $ 1.7 billion bauxite mining project proposed in Niyamgiri Hills in

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The Orissa government would soon move the Supreme Court, seeking scrapping of the clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, according to senior state officials. State Water Resources Secretary Suresh Mohapatra told The Indian Express a petition would be filed before the apex court in a day

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New Delhi: Vedanta’s troubles seem to be far from over with the environment ministry now issuing a show-cause notice to it to reply within a fortnight on allegedly expanding the capacity of its refinery and captive power plant in Orissa without taking green clearance. Just a few days ago, the ministry had rejected Vedanta’s $1.7-billion bauxite mining project proposed in Niyamgiri Hills in Oris

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Nageshwar Patnaik BHUBANESHWAR VEDANTA Resources’ alumina refinery and power plant at Lanjigarh, in Orissa, was forced to stop operations on Tuesday after a mob of around 2,000 contract workers vandalised the plant. The contract workers were appointed to complete a capacity expansion programme, part of which had been mandated to engineering major Larsen & Toubro.

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THE environment ministry has issued environmental violation notice to Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Alumina’s Lanjigarh refinery. Violations include failure to adhere to environment protection norms, unauthorised expansion of capacity to 6 million tonnes and sourcing of bauxite from illegal mines. The company has time till September 14 to submit its reply.

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The Environment and Forest Ministry is aiming at protection of corals not only between the low and high tide lines but up to 12 nautical miles into the sea beyond India’s coastline. The current CRZ (Coastal Regulatory Zone) notification effectively protects only intertidal corals that lie between low tide and high tide line while the new notification will protect corals from harmful activities in

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NEW DELHI: One week after Vedanta Aluminium's application to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa was rejected, its refinery expansion project has been slapped with a show-cause notice by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The company was taken to task for allegedly going ahead with a six-fold expansion of its refinery in Lanjigarh even as the Ministry was still appraising

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Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The Central government is attempting to drive the States' fight against pollution with a series of carrot-and-stick measures, many announced on Tuesday at a meeting of Pollution Control Boards.

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