To prepare blueprint for creek’s restoration within next three months CHENNAI: With the ecologically-sensitive Ennore Creek remaining in a state of neglect due to continuing industrial pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a new committee with a mandate to prepare a blueprint for restoration of the creek within the …
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) yesterday claimed to have taken measures to put an end to fly ash from the first coal-fired plant in Norochcholai causing respiratory problems to humans apart from affecting plantations in the area. The Island reliably learns that the problem has been resolved with the Holcim …
The sweet tea served in the tidy kitchen of Joanne Thomas' antebellum home comes with an ominous warning. "It's made with bottled water," says Thomas, a spry 71-year-old. "But the ice comes from our well." For more than 80 years, the Thomas family has lived on a farm that abuts …
RALEIGH, N.C. — Environmental officials in North Carolina and Virginia signed an agreement with Duke Energy on Monday for the cleanup of toxic coal ash from the Dan River, which flows through the two states. The agreement requires Duke to pay any reasonable cost associated with the Feb. 2 spill …
In an attempt to contribute to the ‘Fly Ash Mission’, initiated by the Centre’s Department of Science and Technology, the Punjab Government has issued strict instructions to all agencies in the construction sector to ensure 100 per cent utilisation of fly ash. For the purpose, the Government has also constituted …
In a setback to Mahagenco, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the power utility to strictly abide by the union ministry for environment and forests' (MoEF) notification which calls for use of clean coal technology to bring down pollution levels and menace of fly ash generated by inferior coal …
More than three months after regulators were told that a coal ash containment pond in North Carolina had failed and was dumping toxic sludge into the nearby Dan River, environmental experts are taking a hard look at what's left in the water. What they have found may not bode well …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday directed Essar Power to comply with its directions on removal and storage of fly ash at its Mahan coal-based power plant or face immediate shutdown. The Mahan power project at Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh represents a $1.2-billion investment by Essar Power and is …
Vidarbha Environmental Action Group (VEAG), a local voluntary organization, has opposed setting up of a thermal power plant in the region by Vidarbha Industries Power Ltd (VIPL), a Reliance group company. The plant will be second in the region. The case for allowing a 900 MW coal-fired power plant at …
As 60% of Sutana’s population is suffering from diseases due to fly ash generated from Panipat Thermal Power Station Residents of Sutana, a village in Panipat, have participated enthusiastically in every Assembly and Parliamentary elections since Independence, but this time, they have decided to boycott the Lok Sabha elections slated …
Residents of Sukhdev Vihar, Okhla, have on Saturday written to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) against Delhi’s Jindal’s Timarpur-Okhla waste management incinerator stating that the plant is yet again spewing toxic ash. Earlier the group had written to the National Human Rights Commission …
New Delhi: It’s not power or water that is weighing on their minds. People living close to the Okhla waste to energy plant have decided to vote in the general election to demand clean air. About 120 residents from adjoining areas like Sukhdev Vihar, Sarita Vihar, New Friends Colony and …
Thermal power producers have yet again missed the 100% fly ash utilisation target set by the environment ministry, reporting underutilisation for the third straight year amid policy confusion over dumping of the effluent. Although the proportion of fly ash utilisation in 2012-13 increased by 3% from a year ago, the …
State regulators in North Carolina may force Duke Energy Corp to move thousands of tons of coal ash from storage ponds at a power plant to a lined landfill after a massive spill this month contaminated water and wildlife in the Dan River. The state's Department of Environmental and Natural …
In an innovative way to save environment, Rajasthan Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Yunus Khan has approved a project to build roads by using plastic waste and fly ash in Jaipur and Dausa districts. A total of 24 roads - 19 in Jaipur and five in Dausa - would be …
North Carolina state officials defended their oversight of coal ash ponds on Wednesday, a day after a second leak was found to be threatening a river already tainted by toxic sludge from a spill earlier this month. The state ordered Duke Energy Corp on Tuesday to plug the second leak …
A stormwater pipe under an unlined coal ash pond at a shuttered plant in Eden, N.C., burst Sunday afternoon — draining tens of thousands of tons of coal ash into the Dan River. Duke Energy, which owns the Dan River Steam Station, retired since 2012, estimates that 50,000 to 82,000 …
Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) said a broken pipe is leaking ash-basin water from a closed North Carolina coal-fired power plant into the Dan River. The release began yesterday afternoon and Duke is still trying to stop the flow, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said in a statement today. The Dan …
Large quantities of fly ash discharged was reportedly flowing into areas around the plant Essar Energy’s Mahan-I 600MW coal-fired power plant in Singrauli district has been ordered to stop all operations by the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB). During the monsoons in September last, MPPCB’s regional office in Singrauli …
After being slammed by the Gujarat High Court for a poor scrutiny of the Adani Group’s special economic zone at Mundra SEZ, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is unlikely to extend the environment clearance (EC) given to the project as it violated conditions like cutting mangroves, blocking creeks …
Residents of 23 villages in Seraikela-Kharsawan have alleged that Kandra-based thermal power plant Adhunik Power and Natural Resources Limited (APNRL), which started production over a year ago, is ruining their lives with the toxic fly ash it generates, creating yet another conflict between industry and community. The Adhunik power plant, …
