Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
local farmers and residents of Sipat in the Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh have registered a massive protest against the location of a 3,000 megawatt super thermal power station in the locality. They allege that the project will result in largescale utilisation of irrigable land, diversion of water from paddy …
researchers have come upon a new source of acid rain seabird urine. The discharged waste contains ammonia, which also damages plants. A study by Sarah Wanless of the British government's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Banchory in Scotland has shown that ammonia concentrations in the air near seabird colonies …
smog sends 53,000 people to the hospital each summer and triggers more than six million asthma attacks in the eastern United States, according to estimates released by clean air activists. Smog created in the summer is called ground-level ozone, the main culprit in what environmentalists believe is a public health …
the proposed 3,000 megawatt capacity coal-based power plant of the National Thermal Power Corporation ( ntpc ) at Sipat in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh, has run into a controversy. At the heart of the matter is the environmental clearance given by the Union ministry of environment and forests ( mef ), …
INCREASING power production will have a disastrous effect on the environment, said G P Singh, chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (upseb) at a seminar on thermal power held in Lucknow recently. He added that this is happening even though environmental appraisal has now become a statutory obligation …
A notice has been issued by the Karnataka High Court to the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) on a contempt petition filed by Janajagriti Samiti, an environment support group. The Samiti has alleged that the MEF violated the court order by not taking into consideration the report of Danish …
in may 1998, the ministry of environment and forests had issued a notification for conservation of the top soil of agricultural land. The draft Gazette notification (No.DL33004/98), dated May 22, 1998, read that no person shall excavate the top soil of agricultural land within 50 km radius of a coal …
The Delhi High Court has said that it will pass orders to shut down the Indraprastha Thermal Power plant in Delhi if immediate steps are not taken for treating effluents being discharged into the Yamuna river. Chief metropolitan magistrate R K Gauba issued the warning while hearing a 11-year-old petition …
The Supreme Court (SC) reserved its verdict on whether a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe should be ordered on Rs 4,500-crore Cogentrix power project in Karnataka. The project was cleared by the Karnataka government. Earlier, the Karnataka High Court had directed a CBI probe into awarding of power projects …
Bloody clashes took place between police and demonstrators, who were protesting against the construction of a new power plant. The new coal-fired power plant was due to be built in Pracuab Khiri Khan province, south of the resort town of Hua Hin, by a us firm Gulf Electric. The clashes …
Nuraicholai, previously a quiet coastal village in Sri Lanka, inhabited by mostly Roman Catholics and Muslims farmers and fisherfolk, has become hot bed of protest. The villagers are opposing governments plan to establish a 900-megawatt power project in their neighbourhood. Residents of Nuraicholai, a rich sweet-water agricultural belt, have formed …
To check the growing abuse of public interest petitions, the Supreme Court has said, "The public must be compensated both for the delay in implementation of the project and the cost escalation resulting from such a delay.' Justice B N Kirpal and Justice Sujata V Manohar, while setting aside a …
FROm next year, us power plants will be forced to test the coal they burn for traces of mercury. The us Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will also require a selected number of plants to test their emissions for the heavy metal. This will help EPA decide whether mercury emissions should …
Catano in Puerto Rico is a small town inhabited by some 35,000 people. But in an ordinary sunny day, hardly any children are seen playing in the streets, and many houses bear a deserted look. Welcome to the poorest and also the most polluted city of the country. Two power …
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court granted an interim stay on the operation of an order of the Karnataka High Court directing the state government to get a first information report (FIR) registered with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for various cognizable offences without naming any person or …
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation of an ambitious 300-megawatt (mw), coal-fired power plant project at Barapukaria in the country's northern district of Dinajpur late last month. This small southeast Asian nation is trying desperately to increase its power output from the current 1,700 mw to make up …
the Supreme Court (sc) has given the go-ahead to the controversial 1,000 mw Cogentrix thermal power plant in Karnataka. The sc dismissed a special leave petition by Janajagrithi Samithi, an environmental group, against a Karnataka high court (hc) judgement. A three-judge sc bench, comprising Chief Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi, Justice …
July 1987: Karnataka Power Corpora-tion Limited (kpcl) notifies a 2 x 210 mw coal based Thermal Power Station at Nandikur. August 1987: mef issues guidelines for citing of Thermal Power Plants under epa 1986. 1988- '89: mef rejects the kpcl project on environmental grounds. kpcl exits, handing over the project …
