Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
A conservation row is brewing up in KwaZulu Natal because a mining company has approached the government to set up a coal mine on the border of the Umfolozi Game Reserve. According to Peter Hartley, a conservation officer, a coal mine on the border of the reserve would prove to …
Humans have not being able to shed their reliance on fossil fuels. Every year, millions of tonnes of coal and oil is burned to produce energy. As a result, carbon locked in the Earth is being released into the atmosphere. This has led to a significant increase in the Earth's …
The landscape looks straight out of a surrealist painting. Vast tracts of land seem diseased, as if something is eating into the land, leaving behind huge gaping wounds. The air is laden with coal dust - you can easily brush it off your shirt collar. Welcome to the Jharia Coalfields …
"Nationalisation has completely failed to meet its objectives," says Ashok K Rudra, deputy director general of mines safety in Dhanbad. The government talked about welfare of workers but it failed to do justice to any of its agenda. Today, people die in same way as they did before nationalisation. They …
"Colliery is in a coma. And only a change in the policy of the government - they must believe in self reliance in the coal sector - will ensure proper growth of the industry," says A K Roy, leader of Bihar Colliery Kamgar Union, Dhanbad. Several industry experts say the …
There are some clear indications of the air quality in Jharia and Dhanbad. The dust particles in the air contain carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (pahs), particulate matter smaller than 10 microns (pm10), carbon compounds and trace metals that are also carcinogenic, says D N Singh, scientist at Central Fuel Research Institute …
the government has decided to put an end to the use of harmful chemicals being used to suppress dust pollution in coal mining area. This was stated by Union minister of state for environment and forests Babu Lal Marandi at a meeting of senior officials of Coal Indian Limited and …
as early as the ninth century, "sea coales', found in the northeast coast of England, were burned as fuel. Soon the air was reeking of dirty fumes, making it intolerable to breathe in London. A few centuries later, the then monarch of England, King Edward I (1272-1307), banned its use …
Near each coal mining area in India is a residential block for employees. A study conducted on air quality around the Singarani coal field in Andhra Pradesh reveals unacceptably high levels of heavy metals. These lead to a host of diseases and ailments. Traces of these metals, some of them …
The West Bengal government is fighting a case against the environmental degradation of coal mines in the High Court green bench. The Pollution Control Board (PCB) of the state has informed the bench that vast areas are being destroyed by land subsidence, underground fires and air and water pollution for …
scientists are exploring the possibility of using visible light to gain very clear images of the human body. At present, medical practitioners use diagnostic tools such as magnetic resonance imaging ( mri ), computerised axial tomography ( cat ), positron emission tomography ( pet ) and ultrasonography. With further improvements …
the threat of arsenic pollution looms large over the north Karanpura coal fields of south Bihar, in the coal samples of Bachara and Piparwar. A recent study conducted by Nitish Priyadarshi, a research scholar from the Ranchi University, has revealed high levels of arsenic, nickel, chromium, strontium, lead, cadmium and …
A research team based in Queensland, Australia, has shattered the world drilling record with jets of water in a coal seam. The team drilled 123 m underground into the coal seam at the German Creek Mine in Central Queensland. This is about three times deeper than has ever been drilled …
ranigunj is a town situated about 200 km west of Calcutta on the banks of river Damodar in one of the most industrialised areas of the country. One would expect Ranigunj to be a thriving locality, full of vitality, life and joy de vivre . Instead, it is a town …
safe disposal: The Thiruvananthapuram-based Peninsula Polymers (Penpol) is breaking new ground in its hospital waste management business which specialises in the disposal of hazardous waste material. It has developed
if a scrubbing technique developed by a us research team turns out well, cleaner coal power may soon be possible. Laboratory experiments show that the method is nearly twice as effective as existing techniques at removing sulphur dioxide, a by-product and one of the gases causing acid rain, and can …
access to conventional energy resources will soon become a problem in future since estimates suggest that global reserves will last 40 years. In contrast, coal may last another 240 years. Compared to petroleum and natural gas, coal is inferior, generates less energy when burnt and emits a greater volume of …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India on Taj Mahal dated 30/12/1996 in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others. The judges noted that the Taj is threatened with deterioration and damage not only by the traditional causes of decay, but also by changing social …
Annual emissions of anthropogenic Hg to the atmosphere in different regions of the world during the last decade show an interesting dichotomy: the emissions in the developed countries increased at the rate of about 4.5–5.5% yr−1 up to 1989 and have since remained nearly constant, while in developing countries the …
