Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has announced a higher compensation to farmers in seven districts of the state on whose land through which it would be laying underground pipeline to take liquefied natural gas from Kochi to Bangalore. “The revised scale has been fixed as per the directions of …
The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), which has received applications for opening 44 new sand quarries on the Cauvery-Coleroon river basin, is clueless about how to proceed further, in the absence of Central guidelines on such project proposals. As a sequel to the August 3 order of the Madurai …
In its verdict giving the thumbs-up to the Kudankulam nuclear power project, the Madras High Court ruled that the government had taken post-Fukushima concerns while clearing the project and observed that remote possibilities of a disaster could not be cited to abandon a project. The basic issue before the court …
MARGAO: The Land Acquisition Officer, Margao played truant as farmers and local citizens from Velim turned up for hearing on the land acquisition for the Cutbona fisheries project on Wednesday. When the farmers made their presence felt at the office of the LA officer in the district Collectorate, they found …
Thousands of villagers from Navelim in Bicholim taluka of Goa on Monday observed a day-long bandh against Sesa Goa's metallurgical coke plant in the village, claiming that it is polluting their surroundings. Police officials said the bandh which started at 7 am has remained peaceful till now. Locals were seen …
Judgment of the National Green Tribunal on K. Karthi Vs Tamil Nadu PCB & Ors. dated 28/08/2012 (Appeal No. 42/2012). Briefly stated, the case of the appellant is that his agricultural land is situated in the proximity of the site of the proposed project pertaining to establishment of Steel Rolling …
VALPOI: In a move that could spark off a major row, the Mauxi and Keri panchayats in Sattari Taluka have opposed the Government’s proposal to include a part of forest area in Sattari taluka as ‘tiger reserve area’. Addressing a press conference at Valpoi on Thursday, Sarpanchas Datta Gawas (Mauxi) …
Protest initiation of projects without consultation with locals A people’s hearing on nuclear energy held in the Capital on Wednesday criticised the Government’s nuclear energy policy and demanded that repression of people’s movements struggling against nuclear energy projects be stopped with immediate effect. Residents belonging to Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu, …
A four-member expert team of the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), which visited the Posco project site near Paradip on Tuesday, will submit its report to the ministry on environmental implications of the $12 billion steel plant by October. “We have collected information on the Posco project after …
The four-member expert team, studying the impact of the proposed mega steel plant by Posco on the coastal ecology, is likely to submit its report to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) by October this year. Leader of the team K Ray Paul announced this here on Wednesday …
Nearly 35,000 trees will have to be felled to make way for widening of the 223-km long National Highway 218 that passes through Bijapur, Humnabad and Gulbarga, affecting the already thin forest cover in the region. Bijapur, Gulbarga and Bidar have a negligible forest area of three per cent. In …
Hazaribagh, Aug. 19: Hazaribagh deputy commissioner Manish Ranjan yesterday put the ball in Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board’s (JSP CB) court, asking it to take a call on cancellation and re-organisation of a public hearing that was held on May 16. The hearing — organised by Reliance Power to determine …
IMPHAL: There shall be no public hearings relating to oil exploration in Manipur. On Friday, a public hearing held at Nungba in Tamenglong district had to be wound up following protests from the villagers. The private company had plans to explore oil in 17 different places of the State. The …
Members say it will help ganja cultivators, encourage poaching The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court on August 7 rejected a proposal cleared by the Tamil Nadu Government for laying a road connecting Karumbarai in Theni Forest Division with the grizzled giant squirrel sanctuary near Watrap in Virudhunagar …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is planning to make public hearings mandatory for all mining licences coming up for renewal or where the mine is going in for expansion. The move is expected to add another layer of control over mining activities at a time when the Prime …
With a view to prevent land agitations, the Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samiti has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and the CEO of Greater Noida Authority, asking for pubic hearings before the government acquires land under the Greater Noida Master Plan 2021. The Samiti, an umbrella organisation of …
BHADRAK (Odisha): The landowners of Dhamra area in Odisha’s Bhadrak district protested the district land acquisition officials during a public hearing at Dhamra for the additional land acquisition for Dhamra Port Company Limited (DPCL) on Tuesday. Despite the protests the hearing was conducted on behalf of the State owned Industrial …
GUWAHATI: In view of the increasing number of public complaints related to land grabbing and other land related issues, the district administration of Kamrup metro has decided to address the issues by holding public hearings in every revenue circle of the district on the first and 15th day of every …
For the villagers around the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu who are agitating against its commissioning, it is as if they are facing a second Emergency, albeit a silent one. False cases have been slapped against them, their leaders have been charged with sedition and waging war against …
“The board gave the consent after fully satisfying itself” The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) gave its consent for operating the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project on July 23, its counsel submitted before the Madras High Court on Wednesday. During the resumed hearing of a batch of petitions before a …
