Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
The long-running Hazelwood coalmine fire has been described as ''an accident waiting for a time to happen'' in a hard-hitting submission from Environment Victoria to the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry that criticises the level of rehabilitation works at the mine. The submission recommends that mine operator GDF SUEZ should be …
Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, faces public fury after the country’s worst-ever industrial accident. At least 282 miners died after an explosion at the Soma mine in the western province of Manisa on May 13th. Rescue workers battled to rescue hundreds more feared to be trapped in galleries where …
The death toll in a coal mine accident in Northwest China's Shaanxi province has risen to 10 with three still missing, local authorities said Friday. Rescuers retrieved three more bodies early Friday from a coal mine where a pipeline collapse trapped 11 workers Wednesday morning, the search and rescue headquarters …
Rescue teams have recovered eight more victims from a coal mine in western Turkey, raising the death toll in Turkey's worst mining disaster to 282, a government minister said Thursday. Even as hopes for some 150 other miners trapped underground faded, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters that rescue efforts …
Rescuers were struggling early Wednesday to reach more than 200 miners still trapped inside the coal mine. More than 360 workers have been evacuated so far. Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz on Wednesday said the death toll from an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey is …
Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 12 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 201 in the nation's worst mining disaster for decades. Hundreds more were still believed to be trapped in the mine in Soma, around …
A West Virginia coal mine collapsed, killing two miners during an operation that had been one of the most hazardous in the industry, officials and the company said on Tuesday. A "ground failure" caused the Patriot Coal Corp's Brody Mine No. 1 to collapse at about 8:30 p.m. on Monday, …
More bodies have been pulled from a collapsed gold mine in southwestern Colombia, bringing the number of confirmed fatalities to 12. Four miners are still unaccounted for but presumed dead. Rescue workers on Sunday had to dig through 20 meters (more than 65 feet) of heavy debris to reach victims …
National Green Tribunal Principal Bench, New Delhi has instructed Chief Secretary of the Government of Meghalaya to ensure that illegal rat-hole mining is stopped within the areas of Meghalaya. Read text of this 4-page landmark interim order passed by Justice P. Jyothimani and Justice M.S. Nambiar in response to the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Threat to life Arising Out of Coal Mining in South Garo Hills District Vs State of Meghalaya & Ors dated 04/04/2014 regarding illegal coal mining activity being carried out in Meghalaya.
SHILLONG: The National Green Tribunal will hold a hearing in Shillong on Friday on the matter of threat to life arising out of coal mining in South Garo Hills District. NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar and expert member Ranjan Chatterjee will hear the matter. In the last sitting, the NGT …
Major roads in the Valley have been cleared though interior roads are still not motorable Avalanches, lightning and flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir between Monday and Wednesday has claimed 16 lives and injured 30. Snowfall subsided on Wednesday and major roads in the Valley were cleared by late afternoon …
Thousands affected by smoke from the fire which has been burning for three weeks and looks to continue for many months Doctors have warned of serious health risks to people living around the Morwell coalmine fire, due to a carcinogenic air pollutant reaching levels up to 20 times the average …
Seven miners were killed and nine others injured when a methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, emergency officials said on Tuesday. The blast occurred on Monday night at the Severnaya mine in Makeyevka, about 15 km (9 miles) from the city of Donetsk, the emergencies ministry …
Seven miners have been killed and nine injured in an explosion at a mine in eastern Ukraine, officials say. The blast took place on Monday night at the Pivnichna mine in Ukraine's mineral-rich Donetsk region. The bodies of the victims were recovered in the early hours of Tuesday and work …
South African rescuers were trying to reach more than 200 illegal miners reported trapped underground in an abandoned gold shaft in a suburb just east of Johannesburg on Sunday, an emergency services spokesman said. Werner Vermaak of ER24 emergency services told Reuters rescuers were communicating with a group of about …
Rescue workers in South Africa are trying to free 17 miners trapped underground after a fire at Doornkop mine west of Johannesburg. The owners, Harmony Gold, said they had made contact with eight miners whom they hoped to bring to the surface shortly. "Efforts continue to establish the whereabouts of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Threat to Life Arising Out of Coal Mining in South Garo Hills District Vs. State of Meghalaya & Ors. dated 24/01/2014 regarding mining in Garo Hills and Jaintia Hills District, Meghalaya. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/110-2012(THC)(OA)_24Jan2014.pdf Previous Orders: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/e-orders.php?eid=4395
At least two miners paid their lives and three injured on Monday when a phosphate mine collapsed at Tarnawai near Qalandar Abad. According to the details, one miner Khalid Azeem resident of Alai died at the spot when a big stone smashed in to his head and the other died …
JOWAI: As many as 11 coal miners in East Jaintia Hills were killed in accidents in December alone raising serious questions yet again on the apparent lack of safety measures for labourers working in the coal mines of the State. On Thursday, one Mainul Haque (24) of Barpeta, Assam died …
