Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ranu Bala Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 05/05/2025. The applicant has alleged illegal felling of trees by the project proponent, a real estate developer company. The allegation of the applicant was that the project proponent has violated the norms by …
The government on Thursday decided to relocate the Rs 10,000-crore Karanpura power plant, being set up in Jharkhand by NTPC Ltd, and laid the blueprint for faster environment clearance for two coal blocks of private power producers. The decisions were taken by a 12-member Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by …
Reliance Power Ltd and Essar Power Ltd will have to wait for some more time to secure clearances for coal blocks in Chhattrasal and Mahan respectively in Madhya Pradesh, allocated for their ultra mega projects. This is because the Group of Ministers headed by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has slapped Rs 13.77 crore penalty on Hindalco for unauthorised sale and inept handling of anode butts which are generated as waste from the company’s Hirakud plant. Invoking the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle, the Board penalised the Aditya Birla Group-owned company for violation …
Green clearance to coal blocks allocated to ultra mega power projects of companies such as Reliance Power, Essar and Adani are likely to be taken up by the ministerial panel on March 1. Private power developers have been seeking Government intervention at the highest level for expediting environmental and forest …
MD assures portfolio of aluminium, copper will help the company in difficult times Aluminium, on the London Metal Exchange (LME), has been falling since the beginning of the year. So has been the core earnings of Hindalco Industries and in turn, the profits. The company maintains that its two businesses, …
Projects of over two dozen corporates, including NTPC, Coal India, Hindalco, Essar and Adani, to be fast-tracked Taking note of a formal end to the controversial ‘no-go’ classification of coal mining projects, the coal ministry has asked states to give revised proposals to the environment ministry for projects stuck in …
With Coal India Limited (CIL) having hiked its coal prices under a new mechanism, public and private power producers along with other economic sectors have warned of a considerable escalation in power generation costs. This could trigger a hike in power tariffs. Consequently, prices of related products will also go …
Ten miners operating in Orissa are in the dock for violation of the Environment Protection Act, 1986. Among them are Hindalco Industries, Essel Mining & Industries, Serajuddin & Company and B C Dagra. The state government has asked the district collectors concerned to initiate legal action against the errant miners …
BHUBANESWAR: The Aditya Birla Group-owned Hindalco Industries Ltd at Hirakud has landed in trouble for inept handling of hazardous waste and its unauthorised disposal. The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has slapped a showcause notice on the unit asking it to explain within 15 days or face action. The …
In a significant softening of stance over the ‘go’ and ‘no-go’ mining policy, the environment ministry has agreed to discuss coal projects on a case-by-case basis. The move indicates some headway towards resolving the deadlock since February. Talking to reporters after a GoM meeting, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said, “There …
The coal ministry will push for allowing mining in two densely forested coal areas, Mahan and Hasdeo Arand, at a meeting of the group of ministers on the “no-go/go” forest areas for mining. It has rejected environment ministry’s decision to deny permission to Essar and Hindalco to mine the Mahan …
The gradual softening of Environment Ministry’s tough stand on clearing coal blocks situated in densely forested areas, has given a ray of hope to corporate bigwigs like Essar and Hindalco as well as Reliance Power that the Government may soon take a view on the long pending issue of giving …
The Regional Officer of Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB), Anupam Behera, has indicted aluminium major Hindalco for emission of fluoride from its Smelter Plant at Hirakud which resulted in crop damage in the villages of Nua Jamda, Dengimocha and Mohammadpur located in the vicinity of the plant. Behera, in …
New Delhi The new mining Bill cleared by a group of ministers last week envisaging direct benefit to people from the minerals underneath the land they own, also has a provision for setting up a clutch of ultra mega mining plants (UMMPs) in the country. As per the proposal, state …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has refused to issue forest clearance to the Mahan coal block in the Singrauli field of Madhya Pradesh, meant for the use of Essar and Hindalco power plants. However, this is not the final rejection. Instead, Mr. Ramesh has merely washed his hands of on the …
Hindalco Industries, the country's largest aluminium producer, has received the final forest clearance for its proposed 1.5-million-tonne, Rs 6,000-crore alumina refinery project in Orissa
The government is likely to give final forest clearance to 50 coal blocks soon, bringing relief to companies such as Jindal Steel & Power, Reliance Power, Monnet Ispat, SAIL, NTPC and Hindalco Industries. The coal blocks, owned by thirtyodd companies, hold reserves of at least 6,700 million tonnes. Last week, …
