Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
A proposed aluminium project in remote Aysen region of southern Chile has run into rough weather with the Chilean salmon farmers intensifying their protest. Environmentalists and farmers claim that the us $ 2.75 billion project, planned by the Canadian base metals group, Noranda Inc., would cause irreparable damage to the …
The Bombay High Court has stayed Indian Aluminium Company Ltd (Indal) from continuing its bauxite mining operations in the Iderganj reserved forest area near Kolhapur. The company has also been ordered to stop cutting and building a six kilometres feeder road in the mining area. The order has come in …
THE process of aluminium extraction from its ore, bauxite, is highly polluting, the reason being the large quantity of power and chemicals consumed. The requirements for producing 1 tonne of primary metal include about 16 Mwh of electric power, 5.5 t bauxite, 1.3 t coal, 0.6 t anode carbon, 0.25 …
