Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Read this special report published in Down To Earth on Nirma, the detergent company that gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect site and …
Visakhapatnam: Two persons were killed and five injured when police opened fire to control villagers protesting against setting up of a thermal power plant in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district on Monday. "Two persons were killed and five sustained injuries in the incident at Vadditandra village," said Srikakulam SP KVV Gopal …
About a decade ago, farmers of 15 villages in Mahuva block in coastal Saurashtra could barely grow one crop a year. This was because the groundwater they used for irrigation was saline. Their fortunes changed in 2000 when the Gujarat government created a reservoir—Samadhiyala bandhara— by building a dam at …
Paper industry generates green house gases in many stage of its operations; there is scope for implementation of CDM project preferably in forestry sector. JKPL's A/R CDM project under LULUCF category aims to GHG mitigation and sell emission reductions earned through carbon sequestration in the established agro-forestry plantations. JKPL, Rayagada …
Oct. 14: The proposed thermal project being developed at Kakarapalle village in Naupada mandal of Srikakulam district will kill at least 125 species of birds, mostly migratory, apart from destroying the reptiles, amphibians, butterflies and rare medicinal plants in the region. This apart the project would also affect the livelihood …
On July 14, two people were killed at Sompeta in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district when the police opened fire on protesters. The people were incensed at the Andhra Pradesh government allotting a tract of Sompeta’s wetland, or beela, to private firm Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC). The company plans to build …
I represent the Forum for Better Visakha (FBV) based at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. We have been active for quite sometime in highlighting the meaning of "development" as perceived by the local communities. I have tried to document the relevant concerns in my article on Sompeta in Economic and Political …
Srikakulam, Sept. 14: The Praja Rajyam (PR) founder president, Mr Chjiranjeevi, launched a three-day tour of the district-Praja Chaitanya Yatra to revamp the party which fared badly in the last elections and forced well known leaders to leave the party and return to Telugu Desam. Beginning his tour in Itchapuram, …
Hyderabad, Sept. 6: When a delegation of ministers from the state recently met the Union minister for environment, Mr Jairam Ramesh, and pressed for early clearances for their projects in the state, they were met with a barrage of questions on the genuineness of the reports produced by the projects. …
A COMMITTEE set up by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has confirmed the existence of wetland at the thermal plant near Sompeta and the Bhavanapadu thermal plant site near Kakrapalli village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. The committee pointed out that the 2,640 MW proposed power plant …
Aug. 22: The state roads and buildings minister, Mrs Galla Aruna Kumari, said that proposals had been made for projects worth Rs 3,560 crore, extending to over 712 projects for the state. The Central governm-ent too has given a positive picture, stating that the State of Accruals were in proper …
Santosh Patnaik VISAKHAPATNAM: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to submit a detailed report for finalising Terms of Reference (ToR) for environment impact assessment study for the nuclear power park at Kovvada in Srikakulam …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai August 17, 2010, 0:47 ISTHe has been locked in a verbal duel with at least three chief ministers and four of his Cabinet colleagues: Praful Patel, Sharad Pawar, Kamal Nath and P Chidambaram.And, contrary to their public protestations, several industrialists are also upset about what …
* At least seven thermal power plants have been proposed in and around Srikakulam district * The companies say they are on wasteland; but many of them are in fact on fertile wetland * Two protestors were killed on July 14 in Sompeta * The location, with access to coal, …
FOLLOWING two deaths and a series of misreported facts, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) cancelled the environment ministry’s clearance to a thermal power plant in Sompeta in coastal Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. Paryavaran Parirakshan Sangam, a non-profit organisation, had appealed to the appellate authority against the clearance on …
FOLLOWING two deaths and a series of misreported facts, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) cancelled the environment ministry’s clearance to a thermal power plant in Sompeta in coastal Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad: A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday dismissed a writ petition against the environment clearance granted to East Coast Energy for setting up a 2,640-mw thermal power plant at Kakarpalli village in Srikakulam district. The order of the two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad …
Ajay Sukumaran, BV Mahalakshmi Hyderabad/Sompeta: Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC) on Tuesday said it is confident of reviving the controversial thermal power plant in Sompeta, Srikakulam, despite the National Environmental Appellate Authority (NEAA) quashing the clearance granted to the project. The company is awaiting a site report by the regional chief …
