Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal mining in village Leta, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, 23/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …

High in spirits!

LARGE quantities of alcohol - ethanol - as consumed by earthlings have been recently found in abundance in the spatial region. Ethanol was discovered by two radio astronomers Geoff Macdonald and Rolf Habing from the Kent University in Canterbury, UK, close to a newly formed star known as G34.3+1.15. The …

Monumental victory

A RECENT ruling by the Kerala High Court (HC) directed concerned authorities to protect the prehistoric remains in the Maraiyurvalley in Idukki district from granite quarrying by declaring them as national monuments. It was ruled last November, that quarrying would not be permitted at the site. The, prehistoric tombs - …

Less of a lustre

IN WHAT could be Latin America's biggest gold mine Brazil, the world's sixth largest goii:1 producer, has 'reported a major 150--tonne gold find worth nearly. us $2 billion. But this time, the discovery, announced early last month, has raised fears of another possible invasion of garimpeiros or individual prospectors into …

SOUTH AFRICA

An us7owned vanadi'u'm mine in Vametco in tfie North West province seems to be doing a repeat of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Inhabitants of the villages of Mothutlung which has a population of around 12,000, and Rankhotea which has a population of about 2,000, have called for an open debate …

MEXICO

It seems to be Nigeria all over again in the state ofTabasco near Mexico City. Protestors have blockaded dozens of oil wells belonging to the state-owned oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos - Pemex for short - accusing it of environmental damage and corruption. "In, our region, there is misery all around …

Rape of the rock

MINING is the world's second oldest activity (after agriculture) which provides gainful jobs. The post- Independence industrial scenario has seen India become an important exporter of mineral ores - especially, to an extent, iron ore. Nearly half of the iron ore exports from India comes from the tiny island state …

An idyll destroyed

Statistics and studies on mining in Goa are rare, few and far between... for obvious reasons, because the private mine- owners form a powerful interest group in the state, which most politicians are wary of disturbing. One authoritative study, entitled Report of the Task-Force of the Eco- Development Plan for …

COOL AGREEMENT

Shoppers in the US will now have a choke of refrigerators apprising them about the effect of the product on the environment thanks to a lawsuit. Four big refrigerator manufacturers agreed recently to relabel their products to inform the buyers that their appliances will harm the ozone layer, even though …

GUYANA

The controversial Omai gold mine which was shut down in August last year after a cyanide spill (Down to Earth, Vol 4, No 9) is to be reopened shortly, after a commission appointed by the Guyana government declared it safe. However, the recommendation comes alongwith a rider that improved environmental …

Vanishing woodstocks

IN A bid to save the last vestiges of Scandinavia's ancient forests, some of Britain's largest paper and timber consumers agreed in December last to exert pressure on Scandinavian timber suppliers. Environmental activists reached a consensus with several companies, including Sainsbury's and the BBC Magazines chain, on adoption of methods …

SMOKED OUT

Smokers in North Miami, US, will either have to give up smoking or remain unemployed, implies a recent US Supreme Court ruling. job applicants are required to sign an affidavit stating that they have not smoked for the past year. The judges upheld a Florida state court ruling that north …

Digging graves

THE Karnataka government seems to have turned a blind eye to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, while authorising district forest officers to grant leases for quarrying in forest lands across the state. Until recently, the mines and geology department had the sole controlling authority for issuing quarrying licence in the …

Network

Netting in moolah Restaurants in Japan have embarked on a novel method to boost their sales. To engage their visitors as they wait for tables to clear, many have installed a personal computer connected to the Internet. The guests have a choice between browsing through the restaurant's home page and …

Brazil backs dubious project

The Special Commission of the National Congress of Brazil is studying various means of making the much derided Calha Norte mining project feasible in the country. The commission took advantage of the crisis in the investigation and surveillance system of the Amazon region (Sivam) scheme, to propose that the Calha …

THE ROW GOES ON

In a bid to break the deadlock over the Cauvery waters dispute, the Supreme Court requested Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, on December 28, 1995, to resolve the dispute immediately. The Tamil Nadu government had pleaded that if Karnataka did not release the required amount of water immediately, it …

Tribals sow, MNCs reap

EIGHTY per cent of the world's population depends on indigenous knowledge to meet their medicinal needs, and at least half rely on indigenous knowledge and crops for food supplies, according to a new study done by the United Nations Development Programme. The study concretises what has been generally voiced by …

A clean dig

OVER 300 delegates including 23 overseas participants attended the first World Mining Environment Congress in New Delhi, held between December 11-14, organised by the Central Mining Research Institute (CMRI) at Dhanbad in Bihar. The Congress culminated with a set of reccomendations, one each for the national and the international mining …

INDIA

• An award called 'zile ki sabse hari panchayat' was announced on December 6 by the environment ministry, for the best afforestation result achieved by a panchayat in each district. • A major industrial waste management project in Hyderabad was announced on December 12. It will be financed with an …

A mess in the South

THE Nigerian government's going ahead with the prosecution (read persecution) of 19 more of Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa's comrades has kept the world's focus sharply glued to the African nightmare. Everything has failed in dissuading the tyrannic regime of General Sani Abacha from mowing down the environmental rights of the …

NAMIBIA

Much to the dismal of conservationists and I scientific community, the Namibian Government authorised the Aitioter of 17,450 more of its Cape htr seals this W 'Porting aside ques M eCsostainable utilisation. the Narnibian sea] hunt dw aveflest in the world," Woo David Barritt, direc 41 the International Fund ir …

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