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 …
BOMDILA, Aug 1: A Public Hearing for grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) in respect of the 120 MW Dibbin Hydro Electric Project under Nafra circle in West Kameng district was held on Friday last at Nafra Community Hall, reports DIPRO. Chairing the Public Hearing, Deputy Commissioner Rinchin Tashi directed the …
JINDAL Power Limited (JPL), the power bigwig of the private arena in India, is making news. In the spotlight is the 2,400 MW expansion of the company’s existing 1,000 MW coal-based thermal power facility at Tamnar village in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. The Rs 13,410-crore project hit a roadblock on …
GMR Energy, the flagship power venture of the GMR group has started constructing a coal-fired power plant in Raikheda village near Raipur without obtaining environmental clearance. The public hearing for the proposed 1,200 MW thermal plant was held in January last year. The clearance is still under process. When an …
PUNE’S civic authorities are moving ahead with the metro rail project. City mayor Mohansingh Rajpal has announced December 12 as the date for laying the project’s foundation stone even as city planners questioned the need for the expensive transport system. A public hearing organised on June 18 to get people’s …
People in eight villages in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar have been protesting the construction of an asbestos fibre-cement roofing plant nearby since January when work began at the site without the mandatory environmental clearance. But they did not get a chance to voice their concerns at the public hearing held …
THE Madras High Court has directed the secretary of Union Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi, to afford sufficient opportunities to all the parties concerned before arriving at any decision on the issue of establishing a distillery unit at Vadaseri village in Thanjavur district by the Kings India Chemicals …
This is a letter written by local villagers to MoEF regarding the public hearing of proposed Asbestos Fibre Cement Roofing Sheet factory of M/s Balmukund Cement & Roofing Ltd. Proceeding was very biased and did not provide proper opportunity to the local representatives who had adverse opinion about the project.
The government has postponed the Environmental Public Hearing by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) in view of the proposed widening of NH-17 until the exact details of the project are made available. A letter dispatched to the GSPCB the Minister for Environment Aleixo Sequeira states that he had …
VILLAGES on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab are protesting an under-construction thermal power plant in Solan district. The villagers had rejected the project promoted by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) at two public hearings held in June 2007 and in September 2009. But the Union Ministry of Environment and …
Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS Partymen gag residents opposing the Kondungaiyur dumpyard project Of the 400 people who live around the Kondungaiyur dumpyard and were present at the public hearing, only four were allowed to speak THE public hearing on the Kondung aiyur dumpyard Solid Waste Management project on Friday was …
A section of public hearing participants wants the Corporation to shift the yard from Kodungaiyur Making a point: A participant expressing his view at the public hearing on the integrated solid waste management project at Kodungaiyur, in Chennai on Friday.
The Jindal Power Limited is directed to refer to this Ministry's letter of even no. dated 31st March, 2009 prescribing the Terms of Reference for 4X600MW coal based power project at Tamnar in district Raigarh in Chhattisgarh for undertaking detalied EIA study.
Letter requesting the Secretary (Environment), Government of Chhattisgarh, to take action against the Jindal Power Limited (JPL) by invoking powers under Section 19 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for commencing construction of 4X600MW power project at Tamnar in district Raigarh in Chhattisgarh without obtaining prior environmental clearance.
The villagers had rejected the project promoted by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) at two public hearings held in June 2007 and in September 2009. But the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) cleared the project in Tikri village in Himachal in February. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/780
A check-dam in coastal Gujarat sweetened water and changed farmers' lives. Now, another change is coming, a cement factory over the reservoir and the villagers are on the warpath.
ITANAGAR, May 20: Objecting to the alleged illegal Public hearing scheduled on May 30 to June 1 next at Pessing, Pangin and Jeying for the 2700 MW Lower Siang Hydroelectric Project, AAPSU Advisor Ojing Tasing said that the company has not provided a true summary of the Environment Impact Assessment …
Meena Menon MADBAN (Ratnagiri district): Angry protests stalled a public hearing of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) at Madban village in Maharashtra on Sunday. Only after officials acknowledged their mistake of not providing copies of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) to the affected villages, it was allowed to go …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai May 17, 2010, 1:12 IST A public hearing today on the 10,000-Mw nuclear power project in coastal Ratnagiri district witnessed loud protests by villagers. The state-run Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC), developing the project and procuring first two reactors of 1,650 Mw each from Areva, made a …
